Hi, Nicholas

I suggest two things:

1. Use VCC from PICSTART and use it for both microcontroller VCC pins . Care
must be taken if your circuit requires much current!. I suppose PICSTART
desenergize PIC microcontrollers to RESET previous to programming it.
2. Make sure RB6 and RB7 pins of your circuit have at least 10Kohm
impedance.

Good luck and comment us your results!

Bye

Carlos Fiestas S.

----- Original Message -----
From: Nicholas Irias <nirias@PACBELL.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 8:01 AM
Subject: [PIC]: ICSP w/ PIC16F877


> I am getting "ID Errors" when I attempt to reprogram my PIC.  I am using
> MPLAB v 5.30
> Picstart firmware 2.30.  I made up a cable to connect MCLR, GND, B6 and B7
> from the Picstart to the PCB.  All leads but GND have series 470 ohm
> resistors.
>
> Aside from the reported errors, at least simple test programs seem to run
> when I program the chip.  The following are the errors reported by MPLAB:
>
> PICSTART Plus Error Log File
> 08-Apr-2001, 22:47:02
>
> Device Type: 16F877
>
> Errors during programming.  Configuration bits not programmed.
>
>
> ID Errors
>
> Address  Good  Bad
>
> 0000:    3FFF  0000
> 0001:    3FFF  0000
> 0002:    3FFF  0000
> 0003:    3FFF  0000
>
>
>
>
> thanks for any assistance with this,
>
> Nicholas
>
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