garbled text on LCD

Hi there,
I'm getting garbled text on my Hitachi based LCD attached to a 16F876. Most of the letters are legible but sometimes it skips a letter or misprints multiple letters. I've tried three seperate displays with the same results.

Here's my code.

'Chip config

trisa = %00000000
trisb = %00000000

'General Defines
define LOADER_USED 1
define OSC 20

'LCD Defines Pins / port for LCD data I/O
define LCD_DREG PORTB
define LCD_DBIT 4
define LCD_RSREG PORTB
define LCD_RSBIT 3
DEFINE LCD_EREG PORTB
DEFINE LCD_EBIT 0
define LCD_BITS 4
DEFINE LCD_LINES 4
DEFINE LCD_COMMANDUS 2000
DEFINE LCD_DATAUS 50

START:
pause 600
lcdout $fe,1
lcdout $fe,2
pause 1000
porta = %00000001
lcdout "hello world"
pause 1000
porta = %00000000

goto start
end

Try remove those

DEFINE LCD_COMMANDUS 2000
DEFINE LCD_DATAUS 50

else, try to play with LCD_COMMANDUS and LCD_DATAUS value

Also try to print to LCD in a one task

LCDOUT $FE,1,"Hello world !"


Be sure you program your PIC with HS oscillator setting.

RIGHT!
It looked like a 'baud' problem so then I guess speed and process time would be similar!!
Thanks again...and again...and again...

That worked great.
It seems like an awful lot of typing the defines though. Could I somehow make an include file that has all of that in it?

Yes you can. But i'll prefer to do some program header and use them after. In my case, i'd do program header for each PIC i use with the configuration fuses and blah blah blah. You can do some with LCD define too and reuse them after. I feel safer to see all the code in front of me. BUT if you still want to do some INCLUDE files, create a new file.bas and then place INCLUDE "lcdstuff.bas" at the top of your code.