I wonder if it has to do with USB drivers. We had to go through some
monkey motion to get USB drivers installed. It's documented at
http://ftp.uslinc.com/ftp/Products/JSD-100/Documents/Technical/Windows%208%=
20USB%20Driver%20Installation.pdf
..

If it were a driver issue, though, I'd expect MPLAB to not see the ICD2 at
all.

I'm still running MPLAB 8.92 under Winows 7. It continues to work well.
I've tried migrating projects to MPLAB X without success.

Harold



> For some years I have used a Shuttle PC running windows XP as my lab
> machine for debugging and programming mid range PICs such as the 16F87 an=
d
> 16F87X using MPLAB 8.9. and an ICD2    Apart from the usual idiosyncrasie=
s
> associated with Microchip products it serves me well even if it is a bit
> slow compiling.
>
> Earlier this year I bought a used Thinkpad laptop running Windows 8 (32
> bit) and decided to use that as my lab machine since it was newer and
> faster and took up less desk space.     So I installed MPl8.92, shifted
> the
> ICD2 and set about programming.   Unfortunately programming under the
> debugger fails with the ICD0083 message.
>
> After some desultory web searching and tinkering I gave up,and reinstated
> the old Shuttle.   But today my son, visiting for Christmas, installed
> something called Virtual Box which allow me to run XP in a window on the
> laptop      And to my amazement   I can use MPL8.92 successfully  in this
> scenario.
>
> I suppose that I should be happy with this but I am puzzled and want an
> answer as to why MPLab won't run under windows 8.    The programming
> hardware and all the cables are the same so cable length doesn't come int=
o
> it.     Any ideas???
>
> I
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