hello, i have recently bout myself a basic pic programming and experimentation board. i have assembled the board and get the power light etc to come on. when i connect it to my pc via the serial port it is detected fine. i use the picprog2 software and it finds the pic ok but when i go to write to the pic i get an error box saying 'no device ID received' can anybody help me with what this means and why its happening? cheers chris _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu