Quote Originally Posted by skimask View Post
You probably have to add another header or something to cutoff the outside signals going to the 24xxxx itself. You're probably trying to feed power/signals to the whole board, not just the 24xxx, PIC fires up, signals start interfering with each other, etc. Try pulling other chips out, etc.
The JDM programmer voltage is only for the PIC (or maybe other MCU's). 13v would most likely kill a 24xxx.
PP 11 of this:
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/e...Doc/31028a.pdf

Shows some driver board - would that be helpful ?

Thanks
Aftab