I am using a Picstart programmer and have sucessfully
programmed several PIC16LF627 parts with the same code and
they all work in my application. I also have 2 PICs that won't
accept the program that the others did.

I remember a similar problem reported about a year ago to the
PIClist where someone could not reprogram a PIC16F877. Jim
Robertson of Newfound suggested setting the code protect to ON
and then OFF again to clear the configuration bits. I tried this with
the 627 but it won't work. I get the following message:

"Program memory or EEPROM Data is protected. Reprogram the
entire part."

When I do that it fails with this error log
-------------------------------------
PICSTART Plus Error Log File
05-Jun-2001, 15:44:42

Device Type: 16F627


Configuration Bits Errors

Config   Expected               Received

OSC      INTRC CLKOUT           LP
WDT      Off                    Off
PUT      Off                    On
CP       All                    All
BODEN    Disabled               Disabled
MCLRE    Enabled                Disabled
LVP      Disabled               Disabled
CPD      Disabled               Enabled
--------------------------------
There are no errors in loading the program and its checksum is
correct, just the config bits can't be changed.

Anybody got a suggestion how to fix this? All of the parts were
fresh from DigiKey and had not been programmed before.

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