Try bulk erasing the chip, that will erase the CP bit also. Dale -- "Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly." - Arnold Edinborough On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Metin Ayan wrote: > I am using pic_up (picup v1 by Tomas Franzon) software downloaded from > www.admittansen.studorg.liu.se. After programming 16F84 a few times > you can not program it again b/c it gives message 'PIC code protected' > (Although code protection is not selected). -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics