PBP3.1 Gold + MCSX+ + Microchip's ICD3 programmer?

[tumbleweed]

Oh, so your problem is with MPLABX. Welcome to the club.

It's not the ICD3 that's crap, it's MPLABX. I've had problems with all the tools in every version of MPLABX.
Some versions are better than others. I've had the least issues with the earlier V3.xx releases, but V4.xx is basically unusable for me.

I try and use MPLAB 8.92 whenever I can.

[richard]

I get that too with icd3 and pk3 , I think it may be a usb issue unplugging and reconnecting programmer fixes it for a while.
saleae logic8 now does it too [keeps saying it can't keep up even @50k s/sec it used to do 16million] . perhaps my i5 laptop just does not keep pace with the real world any more now its bogged down in windoze 10

[Ioannis]

I have the issues at Win-7 64 with the ICD3 and sometimes with Pickit3 but none with Saleae so far. Taday I downloaded the Beta version but have not test it.

Unfortunately going back to MPLAB 8 is not always an option.

Also using third party hardware has issues too. For example my trusted old Elnec Pikprog+ does not support new devices anymore and I have to buy a new programmer...

Ioannis