I hooked up the PIC16 as in your diagram which was fairly straight forward
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5V->VDD (both)
GND->VSS (both)
PGD->data
PGC->clock
I opened up PIcKit2, selected a PIC16F877A as my device, and it reads it. I clicked Verify, and it did verify, but told me there was a VDD voltage level error. "Check target and retry operation." But then when I click verify again, it does it, successfully, but stills gives me that error message/ What does that mean?
I seem to keep having trouble with PicKit acting screwy. Not toally sure why. For isntance right now I have it going to the PIC16 which is empty, and I'm not doing anything, but the clock light is going. And if I read the PIC16, it comes up empty, which is right. But if I do a blank check, it claims it fails at 0x0.
And in MPLab, I get this gem:
Initializing PICkit 2 version 0.0.3.63
Found PICkit 2 - Operating System Version 2.32.0
PICkit 2 Unit ID = OlHoss
Target power not detected - Powering from PICkit 2 ( 5.00V)
PK2Error0024: PICkit 2 was unable to establish a valid Vdd on the target (Attempted 5.00V - Read 2.16V)
PICkit 2 Ready
(PicKit indicates Vdd is stable at 5V)
On second though I'll post this in microcontrollers ~~~ thanks for your helP!