Myke,

Also, probably obvious as well, but did you try
unbalanced caps?

--Bob

On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:42:09AM -0700, Tom Handley wrote:
>    Myke, I'm probably not of much help other than to suggest the obvious
> which you already know:
>
>    1. What's MCLR tied to?
>    2. Any noise on the supply rails?
>    3. Is this on a plug-in breadboard? That adds capacitance.
>    4. Is it a parallel resonance crystal?
>    5. What Oscillator mode are you using?
>    6. Is LVP enabled? If so, what's on RB3?
>
>    I recently upgraded a 16C77 prototype to a 16F877 (using ES samples)
> and I've had no problems running at 20MHz with 18pf caps at 5Vdd. I'm using
> a microEngineering Labs PicProto64 board.
>
>    - Tom

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