Help about El Cheapo PICmicro Programmer

[Jack// ani]

el cheapo pic micro programmer

Hi all,

I’m using El Cheapo PICmicro Programmer by Mike Predko's for learning uC. I don’t know whether the software work in WindowsXP or not?? But while programming I get error: Programming Failure at Address 0x00, 0x02805 was written, but 0x03fff was Read Back. And when I try to verify I get, PICmicro MCU does not have Correct Instruction at Address 0x00, 0x02805 was expected, but 0x03fff is the actual. What could be the problem? Is this hardware problem or operating system problem?

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

 

[albert22]

el cheapo picmicro

I would try on W9x. Because a different method is used on NT/2000/XP to access the parallel port, the program may not be able to work in XP.
My advice is that you change to this good programmer/software here:
http://www.ic-prog.com/index1.htm
It programs a lot of chips and works on any Windows. You might be able to modify your circuit to fit the icprog.
Also search for pic programmers and ICPROG here at the forum. I saw several threads on the subject.