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No deliberate were made changes. I ran your program just "as is" and it failed. But at the time I was very frustrated, and it was very late, and it is ENTIRELY possible I screwed it up uni ...

setup_adc_ports(ALL_ANALOG);

is not the way to set ports to digital mode, that would be

setup_adc_ports(NO_ANALOGS);

Needless to say that was it... The forest obscurred t ...

I looked closer at the Pic-El II schematic.
J1-2 on HDR1 allows me to disconnect B6 from everything except the LCD

Did it - no change.

Waiting to hear from other Pic-El users on other message b ...

I would definitely end up making trash out of the board. Shocked

I started with the PIC-EL at first because I wanted code that I knew worked... Embarassed

Great plan, eh?

However, I do have a proto ...

I am 'this close' to concluding that the PIC16F88 will not work in my board in spite of what the designer says. Shocked

I googled up some 'hello world' ASM code (attached - apologies to Nigel)

...

Using a PIC16F628A I can get the LCD to run using either the CCS lcd driver or the flex lcd driver.

Using a 16F88 I get the same old poor results...
(I thought for a moment it might be a low curr ...

uninstalled - rebooted - reinstalled from cd-rom

Same issues. I can't help think I am doing something wrong in my setup.

Can you email me your 16f88 source pgm and the hex file that worked for ...

1. Was this test above done with the 16F88 ?

yes it was

2. Are you pretty sure that the 16F88 works on this board in all respects
except for the LCD ?

as far as i can tell - i will try ...

Seems like a compiler bug is not the issue.

Compiler generates

.................... setup_adc(ADC_OFF);
0172: BCF 03.5
0173: BCF 1F.0
.................... setup ...

could this bug still exist in my compiler version 4.109?

http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40411&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=16f88+lcd&start=15

i am not at home ...

Just for grins I recompiled targeting the 16F628A that came with the diagnostics on it. Of course it works JUST FINE!

Guess I need to read-up on the 16F88A-E/P

Any thoughts?

1. Have you tried to make the board blink an LED, using the CCS compiler to make the program (not the built-in diagnostic program) ?

yes - if i insert this code before the lcd_init () i get a blink ...

I have a Pic El III demo board (
#include <16F88.H>
#fuses NOWDT, NOPROTECT, BROWNOUT, PUT, NOLVP, MCLR, HS
#use delay(crystal=4Mhz)

#define LCD_DB4 PIN_B0
#define LCD_DB5 PI ...