>Er, I don't think anyone answered your Qs.

Yup I noticed I was just flooded with offers of help ;-]

>The problem is NOT the P16PRO40. Its Microsoft. When you switched from
>98SE to Win2K, Windows no longer allows control of the I/O pins. PICALLW
>won't work on Win2K (never did for me).

I tried it briefly on the 2K machine but between the 3.3vdc and having a weird
permissions error I quickly gave up and have just been trying to get it to 
behave
on the 98SE laptop.

>I always use an old DOS166 for PICALL and P16PRO40. Still works fine, of 
>course.

Well I am hoping I can get this P16Pro sorted out and stable again. It just 
programs too
many pic and others to toss in the bin. I won a new unused Picstart Plus on 
ebay this
AM for the grand sum of $10 but that will be a few weeks before it gets 
here so I am thinking
of getting one of Tony Nixons USB/serial programmers which looks like it 
does everything
the P16Pro did and more including the 10F's !!

The real puzzling part is that I did not smell even a tiny wiff of smoke so 
I know I didn't
let any out of anything ;-]

Cheers

Dave

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