At the time I had a problem with not having another programmer that would program the PIC used in the PICkit2. It's firmware became corrupt and I had to re program it. I had a problem (After a few years use.) with the PICkit2. I later bought a PICkit2 when it was on offer with one of the electronics magazines. When I first started playing with PICs (PIC16C84 and PIC16F84) I built one of the parallel port programmers. The old laptop is now not working unfortunately ,and stupidly did not make a backup copy of the file I am asking for.It is frustrating as this board has worked previously.Any advice or a link to the file in question ? The micro pro software Zip file I tried to download, from the kitsrus website only to find that the zip file archive is corrupt.I need this file as the version of the micro pro software,needs to match the firmware version on the k150 board.The prolific driver has installed correctly and works, every time the board is connected to the USB port on com 3.I keep receiving reset errors and receive them when I check the protocol within the software or an error stating the board is not responding.I have read on other forums and blogs that you can reprogram another pic chip with updated firmware but I would like to install the correct software first and ensure compatibility before I go down that road.

As xp is no longer supported ,I tried to set the programmer up again on a net book ,running windows 8 64 bit ,within a virtual machine running windows xp. I have a k150 programmer that has previously worked ,on an old laptop running windows xp.

K150 programmer software windows 10