Hi folks,

I finally figured it out through fastidiously reading through the docs you linked to and testing out all the settings I could. My led is blinking away happily now. It's amazing what a sense of accomplishment such a small thing can provide!

However, I'm having trouble with one other element: whenever I try to load the config fuses in the code I get an assembler error:

Code:
@ __config _INTRC_IO & _WDT_OFF & _PWRTE_OFF & _MCLR_OFF & _BODEN_OFF & _LVP_OFF
I'm using MPASM, and so I've checked these against the names used in the PIC16F819 file as described by Melanie here. But whenever I try to compile I get the message

"Error[118] c:\docume~1\dave\desktop\dd_pic\blink.asm 44: Overwriting previous address contents (2007)"

However, if I turn off "Update configuration from file" in the programmer, comment out this line, and set the config fuses manually in the programmer config, I can get it to work. Am I doing something obviously wrong here?

Thank you all for your endless patience and helpful assistance!!

Best,
Dave