> When I first had trouble and went poking around, I found Microchip's
> note about RB3 and LVP (and then read much of the voluminous
> discussion about it in the PICList archives :-). I assumed that was
> my problem, so I temporarily tied RB3 to Vss on the board though 10K,
> just for programming. It didn't seem to change anything.

Shouldn't that be Vdd to disable LVP? In the past I programmed some F877's
wothout problems without connecting RB3 to anything, but with F628's (RB4!)
this worked erratic. So always tie the LVP-enable pin low while using HVP.

Wouter van Ooijen

van Ooijen Technische Informatica: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wf/
Jal compiler for PIC microcontrollers:  http://www.xs4all.nl/~wf/wouter/jal

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