What it does is count from 0 to 16,777,216

with a 'standard' '51 that will be ~35 seconds of waiting.

Did you design the power up code for Microsoft?

The above code should work for many systems, and I used it as good debugging. It may seems to process the LCD characters slowly, but if it works, then you can play with the numbers (Make R1, R2, or R3 higher than 0) until the LCD no longer works.

AAAAARGH

Here we go again 'experimenting' what the ... is wrong with reading a datasheet and calculating the necessary delay to make sure that if a unit is replaced the thingy still works.

Nikunj: please pay no attention to that crappy misleading "advice"

Erik