I don't know who you are , but thanks a million for taking time to help me out. i REALLY appreciate it. This is my first digital experiment that i am doing in my home. I honestly still dont care if the circuit counts up or down. as long as it counts i am happy and can check off in my head that i could put together a counter from scratch myself.I just went and looked at the 74107 data sheet and noticed a couple of things. ........................Which do you WANT? An up counter or a down counter.
I use the textbook from this website as a guide to teaching myself digital electronics. I do have a digital course in school but i just dont want wait till next semester to learn that stuff.
I did make a 2 bit counter saturday night that counted from 3,2,1,0 and back to 3 again. i happened to use only one 74107 IC. It worked great! Then I went onto the next step of making a 4 bit counter and thats when I got into all this mess.
Last night and this whole day at work i was planning on giving up this whole 4 bit counter experiment but seeing your replies I feel its not fair to give up on this problem after so many people have tried to help me out. So, I have decided to get to the bottom of this problem no matter what and no matter how long it takes.
Maybe it a synchronization problem between the 2 ICs or maybe its something else. I will update this thread when i am successful.
Thank you again for your time.