Hi again,

It's OK i;ve sorted the problem, I was using TRIS to set the ports but I refered back to using INPUT, when I looked at the strobe port on the scope it was being dragged down so I guessed the port was not set as an input although I had set it with TRIS.

The problem I have now is i'm trying to use a lookdown table as a passcode, so for instance I enter *9 to get to the engineering section, I now have to enter a code to get access to the functions but when I enter the first number of the passcode the pic errors out back to the beginning.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Jim