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Kathy Quinlan wrote:
 > Does anyone here have a AT43DK355 USB development kit ?
 >
 > I am getting no response from Atmel,
 >
 > I sold my development machine, so I could use the laptop (means I can
 > write code when I am in hospital etc)
 >
 > But I can not program the EEPROM on the dev board by the parallel port,
 > the ISP program just locks up :o(
 >
 > It looks like I am going to have to build an EEPROM programmer running
 > off the serial port :o(
 >
 > I can not see what the problem is (apart from the SCK signal not being
 > stable)
 >
 > The laptop is an Acer Travelmate 220 running winxp.
 >
 > Any ideas ?
 >
 > I am thinking maybe making it dual boot into win98 and trying that hmmm
 > might just pull the HDD and put my 650Mb hdd in and see if I can get
 > win98 on that lol

Probably some windoze crap polling the port for external printers/drives etc.
Disable it.