> > 13.    Your PicStart Plus may not communicate with a fast processor.
Keep
> a
> > slow machine around as your programmer!
>
> How fast?  What does system CPU speed matter to the serial port?  Is it
> because uC is still sticking to Win16 binaries rather than keeping up with
a
> more accepted Windows API for the newer systems?  Or is it that
motherboard
> makers are pulling out certain backward compatibilities?

>I find this hard to believe too.  I've used my Picstart+ with a 933MHz
>Pentium III running Windows 2000 without trouble.  My guess is some people
>ran into problems for other reasons and somehow thought the faster machine
>was the problem.


Well I tried programming a 17C44 to update the programmer firmware, and had
problems on my Dual 1GHz Pentium machine, but the programmer worked alright
on my single Pentium 350MHz machine. After update I tried it again on the
Dual Pentium, and it still has communication problems.

Dual Pentium is running Windows 2000 Professional, and MPLAB 5.31, single
Pentium is NT4 and MPLAB 4.something. Picstart firmware was updated using
the PSF23000.hex file.

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