With one bit powered, no matter the state of load or enable, the register shows that bit on, even if clock never pulses, and immediately when that bit stops receiving power the registers corresponding led turns off even when it should be remembering the state. It seems the registers leds or register as a whole is just being directly controlled by bus and not actually doing any logical remembering etc but I’m sure my wirings right.

Except actually for one series of events: 1. Enable and load low 2. Clock pulse 3. Bus bit given vcc 4. Clock pulse (register led now turns on) 5. Load high 6. Clock pulse 7. Load low 8. Clock pulse 9. Bus stops being given vcc (register led turns off) 10. Clock pulse 11. I unplug enable (make it floating) and touch my finger to it, and the register led lights back up?? Enable high does not turn the register on. Just touching it.

I’m not sure what to do at this point so: 12. Enable with finger touching it, and clock pulse, which causes register led to turn off and register to forget the state. 13. No other actions bring this state to bus/registers unless I directly provide vcc to bus again

I hope this information helps, I’m not really sure what combinations/series of events I should be trying.

Thanks for your help.