Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>
> >Install MPLAB temporarily in a slower system (laptop or whatever) and
> >use it to upgrade your Picstart+.
>
> :) Yes I was considering that, it is just a pain to set it up again. I was
> also wondering if it might be the problem Roman goes on about with
> capacitors in the power supply. However I have two of these supplies and it
> happens with both. I opened one up and the capacitors do not look as though
> they have been extreme heat cycled.
>
> Still I guess the trick is to bite the bullet and deal with the other system
> again :{}


Try replacing the caps? Mainly the 100uF 25v one
next to the heatsink. Mine was doing similar things,
like starting to program then stopping and giving errors,
it's to do with the increase in current when it starts
programming I think.
-Roman

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