hi everyone...
I finally got all the hardware and wrote a little test program for my pic (16f877A)
i built a llittle test board with 8 3mm red LED's
The test program i wrote is a simple knight rider led sequence...
I'm using a 20MHz crystal with 2 X 10pf caps. the programmer was set to HS crystal...

The software runs fine in my pic simulator software but i get no signes of life...
it's running off a since lithium ion cell with a voltage under load at 4.3 volts.

i've double checked the voltage is going to both sets of pins, i've re-verified the pic program by putting pic back in the prodrammer...

I've experience building circuits with the Z80180...

Does anyone have any ideas to find whats wrong?
Thanks