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thank you very much for your reply I left (D0 to D3) open circuited and connected R/W to ground, tough luck it was the same result well about Back light LED, regardless Back light LED connection, display displays 16 black dot squares. but nothing else.. even without PIC it shows those squares.. here...

I am using a EB 006 , EB005, EB007 to program a PIC16F887 to use in my project. my project is a score board and I have built separate hardware. it has no Matrix main board or e blocks connected. I do use the same LCD as Matrix EB005 uses which is HD44870 and LEDs on my hardware. I program the PIC wi...