Just to correct myself, as 68HC bits burn from 0 to 1, you could, as per Bob's suggestion, over-write with FF, which is STX,X and that would probably work. You may possibly come unstuck with the timer and IRQ vector table though But anyway, the good news for Emrah is that an OTP PIC is re-usable The choice of 00 for NOP and being able to over-write previous contents with it seems like some pretty natty forward-thinking by Microchip _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist