At 05:12 PM 8/7/01 -0400, Ed Troy wrote: >Incredible!! Even this does not work. I am doing something incredibly >stupid, but I can't figure out what it is. Either that, or my programmer (a >Topmax) is totally bad, and saying that it is programming chips, and >verifying them, but not, and I can't believe that. Try this: Erase all .hex files, and re-assemble/compile. Maybe you aren't generating new code to put in the chips! (Or even any code at all!) If you find a .hex after that, open it with notepad, and see if it looks rational. Not full of 00s, or FFs, -- Dave's Engineering Page: http://www.dvanhorn.org I would have a link to http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?KC6ETE-9 here in my signature line, but due to the inability of sysadmins at TELOCITY to differentiate a signature line from the text of an email, I am forbidden to have it. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.