thank you for you reply, i just wanted accuracy to be honest hence using 19.6608mhz to generate the 1 sec delay. i will look into changing the pins over with c block. i have not used fc for a while so was not planning on upgrading yet just to use this ic.

cheers
darren

good evening, my apologies if im being stupid here but im having trouble with the pic16f1829 ic using an external 19.6608mhz crystal and oscillator. the code im using is just a basic count and display, with a delay of 1 sec. the problem i am having is that the delay is far to long to be a second del...