Are you sure that you use an F84 and not the F84A ?  They do behave
differently !  Got caught by that one myself ...

regards,
    Reelf

Lindsay Pointu schrieb:
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> Hi
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> I will probably be taken to task over this, but please bear with a newb=
ie who wants to share your passion....
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> Programmer is the kit  (Ref no. 81) based on the article by Charles Man=
ning in Elctronics Australia, which has passed all tests successfully.
> Program is the lights.hex test program supplied with the kit (Other pro=
grams have also been tried)
> Programming software is Picall Windows version 1.10d - Feb 2002 (others=
 have also been tried, including a full simulation run in MPLAB)
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> The prblem is that whenever the chip is programmed I get the error mess=
age:
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> Program: address =3D  0000  buffer =3D 2810  device =3D 3FFF
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> As a matter of fact, whatever program I try to download to the chip, I =
invariably get the same message with whatever is in the buffer at address=
 0000.
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> All possible fuse combinations have also been tried.
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> Can anyone please put me out of my misery?
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> Thanks
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> Lindsay Pointu <lpointu@intnet.mu>
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