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Hi Ben, Got there at last!!! Sometimes pays not to look for a complicated answer when a simple one will suffice!! I could still not get my program working, but further comparisons with MPLab showed from the C output file that Port D was being addressed, which apparently is the port with the LED's us...

Hello Ben, Thanks again for last reply, I've now got the chip to take the program but I still believe there's a configuration problem as the simple led light up program doesn't work. I've gone back to mplab from where a similar program works every time. I looked at the config word being used by mpla...

Hello again, thanks for above, programmer now runs OK! However chip doesn't seem to be getting program on board - I get the busy light on the PICkit OK (just trying to light up 1 led to start). Problem appears to be with config chip screen, I can select 16F887 from expert screen but can't auto detec...

Thanks Benj, Done that, was already on FC Ver 3.6.11.53 so just changed the compiler settings. I've got the "use external program --) box unticked as I saw in an earlier post, is that something else I need to look at? Anyway still no joy now getting as follows BUT a second try got me as at bott...

Hello, Hope you can assist, my problem seems to have been almost covered before in this forum & concerns the use of pk2cmd_mtx.exe which was discussed in 2007. I bought PICkit 2 Debug Express & got it working quickly with MPlab, so I'm OK with that then I got Flowcode 3 with EPE mag subscrip...