I'm having an ICD2-clone that I've been using for a month or so in
MPLAB, never had any problems with it. This weekend I used it
extensively for a school project and today is the first time I
rebooted the machine. Now, MPLAB cannot find the ICD2-device when
selecting the menu "Programmer->Connect". Looking in the hardware
manager in Windows, the device is not there. I rebooted the machine
and hooked up the USB-cable once again, but the device wouldn't show
up.

I uninstalled MPLAB and reinstalled it. After reboot, I added the
ICD2-cable to the computer and MPLAB asked me to set it up. After
doing so, I checked the hardware manager and found "Microchip tools ->
Unknown device". I clicked "update driver" and told Windows to search
for the best places for the driver to be found.

After half a minute, the screen turns blue with a lot of technical
text "***STOP**** <something> icd2w2k.sys". I rebooted, removed the
file, rebooted again and tried to update the driver, but I got the
same error. It worked this weekend but not anylonger.

I have read the files "clnicd2.htm" and "ddicd2.htm" under C:\Program
Files\Microchip MPLab\MPLAB IDE\ICD2\Drivers, and the step-by-step
guide in the cleaning documentation made a blue screen for me as well,
so I had to reboot the computer.

I have MPLAB v7.52.

Has anyone had a similiar issue? I have contacted Microchip but I
guess I will have to wait some days for them to reply, meaning I have
to go stuck with this project :-(


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