Maybe bad power-on?

Try to reset it manually (with power applied)

I finally used a external power up and brow out reset ckt to my
PIC14000-design.

/Morgan


At 10:36 1999-01-24 -0500, you wrote:
>Now I *am* truly pulling my hair out.  After finding
>that the on-board oscillator on the 14000 varies considerably
>from chip to chip, I rewrote my synchronous serial port code
>to establish its timing from the on-board clock calibration
>constant.  I've got the serial output going on on pion3 of PORT A,
>and that's the only pin of PORTA I'm using.  The serial pin writes
>to a 9600b serial LCD for debugging.
>
>I wrote a function putch() to output a character, and putstr()
>to dump a string.
>
>It all works absolutely perfectly in the test main() I put
>together, but when I plug the functions into my real application code,
>it works 1 in 20 times (of applying power).  When it doesn't work,
>the pin just goes low and stays there.
>
>I'm definitely not tromping TRISA or anything in the rest
>of the code, and I've been trying to fix this for three
>days now...
>
>-Will
>"Life is a meritocracy"
>
>
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