Can't get a 16F88 to do anything.

[ccowley]

Thanks everyone for your help with this!!!

Thanks for the HEX file Bruce! It worked great! Which led me back to my compiler as the possible cultprit for my woes. I felt like an idiot as I found MicroCode Studio was pointing to a PBP directory on an old back up drive with V2.45 on it, but even after switching it so that it pointed to my newer drive with V2.47 on it the compile still didn't work. So, I took it to another machine and compiled it there and once again, your code worked perfectly!

Comparing the two systems made me look a bit closer at my screen. I noticed that MicroCode Studio had an additional tool bar (which was the lowest of all the tool bars) and two sets of compile buttons. I had updated MicroCode Studio to make sure I had the latest version before starting this and didn't notice it had turned on the ICD menu bar with its ICD compile button which look very much like the standard compile buttons. So, being a creature of habit, I have been just pointing to the lowest compile button on my screen not realizing it was the ICD compile button. The regular compile button works great, the ICD button, not so great, at least how I'm using it. On my other computer (when I turn the ICD menu bar on) it actually says "ICD Compile" next to the button (since I keep that screen at a higher resolution), but on the computer I normally use it just shows the button. I knew it had to be something idiotic I was doing since I haven't had this kind of problem programming PICs before, but I just couldn't see it and wouldn't have seen it without the troubleshooting help that was provided here.

Finally I can (sheepishly) get back to getting some work done.

Thanks again to everyone who chimed in on this thread!

Carl

[mackrackit]

F9 for compile.
No button look alikes
Glad you got it going.