On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 10:10 -0700, jim@jpes.com wrote:
>  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.

You know, Jim has exactly the right thing here.  Presumably you are
using MPLAB-X and presumably you have a PICkit 3 or ICD 3 to do your
programming.

SO, put a breakpoint at the PORTA =3D 0, click the debug icon, and then
single step, checking the pins with a meter each step.  You might also
put a weak pullup, say 10K, on RA0 and RD0.  If the pin stays high then
perhaps it hasn't been set to be an output for some reason.

--McD

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> Regards,
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> Jim
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> > -------- 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=
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> > the 877. I used a 18F4550 which is pin compatible with the 16F877 and i=
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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=
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> > 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=
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> > 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
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
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> > >> bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Richard R. Pope
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 11:45 AM
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