[SOLVED] Art2003 hardware not recognized by WinPic800

[Tipu606]

Hi !
I built the Art2003 programmer(PIC18F2550) on a breadboard and connected it to the computer parallel port but WinPin800 ver 3.59 fails to detect hardware.
it says "hardware not responding"
Can anyone please advise what to do now?
I installed the WinPic800 software but at start it says failed to find WP800IO.sys file although it is in the Program Files folder
thanks !
EDIT: a friend solved the problem on his computer

 

[tpetar]

This problem looks like windows/winpic800 (software kind problem).

Deinstall / Remove WinPic800 / delete complete folder if exist and install again.

Check PCB connections.

Should work.