i tried what joe said and used a pull up resistor,. still nothing happend.. that made me hopeless about my module and began thinking that mackrackit was right..may be magic smoke did got out. so i ordered another vdip2 module and its on its way here..

for the mean time, i'm in the middle of programming the push buttons for browsing the files. how do i program the buttons to execute the command only after releasing the button from being pressed. the reason i want it that way is because if i execute the command(e.g. scrolling the lcd with the file names) while the button is being pressed,some files names would be skipped due to very quick execution.