OT: MicroChip problems

Your error in the above is to try and call customer service. Just file a complaint online (Paypal) and roll the transactions back through the credit card company. Let Paypal contact you to sort it out (if necessary) because then you'll be dealing with someone who's job it is to solve issues! Customer service by phone is just there to sit & listen.

You don't understand the problem.

Got the stuff from MicroChip Direct. Everybody i talked to to there, says that the MPLAB CDs are no longer available. And it is impossible to find to find any CDs on their site; one is forced to download any version your little heart desires. BUT..that special header for debug, INCLUDES a CD(!!), in this case ver 8.6 which i am now using.

• Got some problems and questions:

#1) How in the heck does one connect this "header" to the project? See first 7 pictures. Note their "by the book" instructions ICEbook.gif especially the 2 black rows/bars on the target board. All other pictures show reality. Seems to imply that one must know about this problem so as to layout TWO DIP socket patterns with pins in parallel; one for the PIC16F648A and associated circuitry, and the other for the REQUIRED header. NOTHING is said about the pins for the oscillator...

So, in the normal course of events, there is no second DIP pattern - thus the question is: How in the heck does one connect this "header" to the project?

#2) The rest of the pics are screen shots made during use of the MPLAB ID with the PICkit-3 directly connected to the project board (ie: no header).

Why, after a READ, can i NOT see WTF was read??

Also am guessing that some of the errors are due to the absence of the header.

Grumble.

I understand the problem perfectly. You don't have any clue how to deal with such a problem properly. If you want someone to solve your problem you have to make it their problem otherwise nothing will happen. Reporting the crime to the police by yourself would have been a good idea as well. FFS why should Paypal report a crime to the Police?

Thanks for sharing.