Quote Originally Posted by Jerson View Post
Jellis00

You can point explorer to the hex file in ProgramFiles\Microchip\Pickkit2 v2 or similar. That is what it is looking for.
One thing I have considered is that my OS may be contaminated. I want to download the latest OS version for the PICKIt2 and install it to see if that solves the problem. But as I said above, I can't find the latest OS on the web that I can download. Can anyone point me to one?

My PICKIT2 is showing a power light so I don't think that is a problem. However, I will (at Jerson's suggestion) try to isolate any power issues on my application board. Thanks for the ideas.