Flashing LED means it's not 'connected' to the PC - A 'Reconnect' fixes
this if everything else is okay.

If the LED is flashing the the ICD is powered, which means if there is a
problem it's PC side rather than PIC side if you get a comms failure.

If doing a reconnect makes the LED go steady, the problem is PIC side.

Is this a MChip ICD or a homebrew? (or to put it another way, has it
every worked for you before?)

Regards, Kevin



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> [mailto:PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Micro Eng
> Sent: 08 March 2002 15:02
> To: PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu
> Subject: [PIC]: problems with my ICD as well.
>
>
> OK..I wired an RJ11 jack, and no smoke when I powered it up,
> but it says it can't communicate with the unit.  The red LED
> is flashing on the ICD (this means what?)  I assume since the
> LED is on and flashing the power is connected correctly.
>
> I do the self test...get an comm error.  I know the comm port
> is working because its hooked to my picstart
>
> Do I need to download the ICD operating system? It gives me
> an error that it required 2.0 for this.
>
> According to the help, it says to cycle power if the LED is
> flashing, and reset the comm port.  No change.  If I try
> com1, it does say it can't communicate with it, and com2 at
> least does not give that error.
>
> Any pointers?
>
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