Have you tried just stopping the program after it runs one time instead
of looping back to ".INIT"
 It may be running so fast you can't see what is displayed before it
resets itself.
 Just a thought.

Regards,

Jim

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: SV: SV: SV: SV: [PIC]: Trying to get a 16F877A to talk to
> an LCD!
> From: "Richard R. Pope" <mechanic_2@charter.net>
> Date: Tue, October 20, 2015 11:46 am
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
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> Hello all,
>      I have the LCD working. Well kind of any way. I didn't do it with=20
> the 877. I used a 18F4550 which is pin compatible with the 16F877 and it=
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> works. At least the display resets and I have a cursor on the screen.=20
> Also for the one or two seconds that it takes for the program to run I=20
> get a display on the scope. Yeah! But why not the 877?? Hum! I don't=20
> know. It took me almost 12 hours to get here. I appreciate everybody's=20
> help and I don't know how to explain this.
> Thanks,
> rich!
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> On 10/20/2015 10:59 AM, Allen Mulvey wrote:
> > I haven't been following this too closely but I don't see
> > ADCON0 set in there.
> >
> > This is what I use:
> >        ADCON0 =3D 0;                              // adc off
> >        ADCON1 =3D 7;                              // all
> > digital
> >        CMCON =3D 7;                               //
> > Comparators off
> >
> > Allen
> >
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