Hi Richard,

I finally found some time to try your suggestions as shown in post #41 - it does not work for me.

Copying and pasting your code, I had no display until changing TRISA from %10010000 to all outputs and even then no big characters were seen until DTints and associated parts were commented out. Order of Includes made no difference.

There's still a problem with the backlighting as well because it initially is dim then changes to a short duration pulse of bright background coincident with each LCDCLR command. No difference whether displaying big characters or not wrt these bright flashes. When I add LCD_LIGHT = 1 in the mix I have no text displayed.

Any suggestions where I should go to from here?

Thanks and regards,
Bill