Let's try again with a topic tag. Sorry.

>My PicStart has started giving me random "can't receive" and "can't
>transmit" errors when I try to program 16C745s.=20
>
>About a year ago, I replaced the electrolytic cap in the wall wart and
>that had cleared up a similar problem that I was having then. This
>time I went straight to a bench supply to power the darned thing. No
>help. I've set the PicStart's power in at 9 volts and it's pulling
>something around 100 millamps. (I haven't measured the current all
>that accurately but it looks reasonable on the bench suppy's current
>meter.)
>
>I have tried running it with the comm port FIFO buffering both on and
>off. Neither way seems to affect the symptoms.
>
>I tried going back to a previous version of MPLAB but that didn't help
>either. (I'm currently using the 5.50 version.)
>
>Anyone have any ideas of what else I can try to resolve this?
>
>
>Thanks, Bob

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