Hello everybody. I was hoping that you could help me with a problem I'm having. I was programming a PIC perfectly until I started getting the following message. It seems to be a problem in the configuration bits. Have any of you had a similar problem before. I tried searching online, but didn't find information.

Connecting to MPLAB PICkit 3...
Firmware Suite Version.....01.27.15
Firmware type..............PIC18F

Target detected
Device ID Revision = a

The following memory area(s) will be programmed:
program memory: start address = 0x0, end address = 0x1ff
configuration memory

Programming...
configuration memory
Address: 300006 Expected Value: 81 Received Value: 85
Failed to program device

 

At what voltage are you programming?

 

At what voltage are you programming?

5V

 

Are you using voltage from the programmer module(target power) or external?

 

It's external Power. Somehow the problem was fixed. When I got the error I was trying to simply download the program, then I tried debugging and that worked. After debugging I tried loading the program again and it worked. I really don't understand how it was fixed, but I am now able to program the PIC again.

 

Sometimes the programmer gets 'hung up' - if this happens again, close MPLAB, unplug the Pickit3 and start over, this should reset everything.