Problem programming with K8048

Just bought a K8048 programmer today. After finaly getting progpic2.exe to regognize my programmer i stumbled into a new problem. Every time I try to read or write something to my pic I get an error “No pic on board! Programmer must be set to pgm mode, pic type mismatched software…”

I tried with multiple pics, but all give this error. When I insert the pic that came with the board and put the board in run mode, a sequence of lights starts to blink, so that means that the programmer reads the chip,so that aint the problem. When I try to write to the chip the programmer is set to program mode, so that aint the problem eather… Please help someone =(!

Extra info: I’m working on a laptop with vista and am using a usb to serial port converter.

Thx in advance!

Edit: When I used picprog2006 I couldn’t read or write to the pic, but the erase pic option seemed to work, caus after using that the pic doesn’t do anything anymore in “Run” mode, meaning it’s empty.

Unit is not compatible with usb converter.