Hello
    I was using PicDown, and was resetting manually. but it says serching for bootloader.UART is working fine as i loaded another program and there is no problem with the communication.
can u give me the set of bootloader s/w and the hex for 4Mhz that you have used and works
Binu

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 stef mientki wrote :
>Binu Pillai wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >      I am haveing some problem with bootloading which i am not able to resolve.I am able to bootload into a board with PIC16F877 DIP package without any problem. In another board with the same design but all package being surface mount and 16F877 in PLCC package i am not able to bootload. what could be the reason and the problem.
> > looking fwd to a positive response
> >
> > Regards
> > Kancee
> >
>which bootloader ?
>what doesn't work, a few things I can think of:
>   - uploader can't reset the PIC
>   - PIC isn't responding to the ping of the bootloader
>   - transfer of data gives errors (wrong checksum, other transmission
>errors)
>I've used several bootloaders, with all kinds of 877(A) in all kind of
>packages and never saw any problems.
>Stef
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