Jinx wrote:
>
>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
>

This sounds like the kind of problem encountered running some Borland
language programs on fast Pentiums. It seems that their older run-time
package didn't have a processor speed value large enough to properly handle
time delays on the faster Pentiums. (As I understand it, the program
determines processor speed on start-up with a counting loop. Too fast a
processor overflows the value rendering it useless.)

Are you running the latest version of MPLAB? (5.31 is the latest, last time
I checked.) If you're not, that may be the problem. If the latest version
still exhibits this problem, I'm surprised that it hasn't been more widely
reported on the list. I'm pretty sure that somebody on the list must be
using MPLAB with the picstart on a 700+ MHz PIII.

(If I'm not mistaken, there are separate patch programs available for
programs written in Turbo Pascal and Turbo C.)

Regards, Bob

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