Howdy,

I don't usually come crying to the PICLIST unless I'm REALLY desperate; and I
am now.

Here's the story....recently I've been trying to write my own windoze-based
software for Michael Covington's NOPPP to program 16F84's. So far, it's
coming along fine. The most I've been doing is writing (and re-writing) the
program memory (location 0x0000). I've been doing it right because when I
read the data back, it's the same. Now...the problem.

If I try to use David Tait's program to program the same PIC (it always
works), I get errors. Specifically, it stops programming at 0x0001, " 0001:
read 2001, wanted 300D"  I hear you say, "So Tim, have you tried a different
PIC?" Yes, tried a different one and it programs fine. At first, I thought it
didn't work because maybe I inadvertantly set the CP bit...so....I write out
the routine to turn off CP and try again -- no go. This is the second PIC
this has happened to and it's getting frustrating! (and expensive!) Is it
possible that I've reached the EEPROM's lifetime? Don't think I've
written/erased the memory THAT much. I'm totally stumped, so I come to the
"big boys" for help =)

Much thanks in advance,

Tim Hamel

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