Thanks for the suggestions. I am observing the errata sheet relative to reading EEPROM. The PICs I have are new. I am seeing the same thing on some five PIC18F1320s. I started with a single write as I have done on every other design using PICs (not the 18F1320). Then, I went to a write - read verify and found I had to increase the number of tries to 500. Crazy. The PICs I am using are from May. I have ordered more, but this is a slim. I am using the internal 4.0 MHz clock, which just might be my problem. If worse comes to worse I may have to revise the design to store the data in flash memory. This is for an inexpensive LCD Kit where the LCD geometry, cursor type, tab size and user defined characters are stored in non-volatile memory, which change infrequently over the life of the product. Once again, thanks. PHA, http://www.phanderson.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.