I have the Kitsrus K150 programmer and it has been working great for me
- until I tried installing the software for it on another couple of
computers.  The same programmer and cable will work great on some
machines, but not on others.  I have even eliminated the board that I am
connecting to via ICSP.  If you don't have any chip in the programmer
and no connection to a target you get an error message about not being
able to verify the chip type and a read will result in all 1's - but it
still "works".  What I am getting is an error message that  "The board
is not responding.  About to apply reset."

I am thinking that it is not the programmer, but something probably in
the USB driver interacting with different versions of Windows.  But I
don't know how to narrow this down.

I have tried it on the following machines.
   Windows XP Pro (no SP) Notebook - works
   2x Windows ME (unknown SP) - works
   2x Windows XP Pro SP1 desktop - does not work
   Windows 2000 SP3 desktop - does not work
   Windows XP Home SP1 notebook - does not work

Now - all of the ones it does not work on have had the software
installed in the last 2 days.  The couple of machines I installed this
on before that have worked just fine.  So - I'm not sure if it is what I
am installing, or the type of machines I'm installing it on.

I've been downloading both the USB and MicroPro software directly from
the websites.  I did try both DiyPgmr15 and DiyPgmr16.  The DiyPgmr15 is
what I had been using before, but the DiyPgmr16 just came out.

Thanks for any ideas on how to further trouble shoot this.
Is there a way to snoop the messages going over the USB "com" port?

Dan

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