Until recently I've used my PicStartPlus on a 486 but that's now got a dicky HDD, so I've transported MPLAB over to a 266 Pentium. What a performance to enable the programmer. It can't transmit, it can't receive, it has to be reset etc etc. Perhaps 1 time in 10 it will program a chip. Talk about fussy. I had this Pentium trouble when I got the PSP several years ago and never got to the bottom of it, despite help from several quarters, and that's why it's been used for so long and painlessly on the 486. Now though, I have and need the resources of the list, and would like to know WTH I can do TIA -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu