He's not looking at a special register, but at generic RAM. The answer is, they default to nothing - whatever charge was left there by random. Andy "M. Adam Davis" on 09/29/2000 08:47:07 AM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: (bcc: Andrew Kunz/TDI_NOTES) Subject: Re: Default RAM condition In the beginning of every pic data sheet it gives you a memory listing of all special registers and their state at reset, power-up, and watch-dog reset. -Adam Martin Hill wrote: > > Hi all, > I am using a 16F876 for a product and after much testing and > selling over 100 of them I have had one returned with what looked > like an external memory problem. After looking at it, I overlooked to > clear a bit in the memory at reset. If the bit defaults to clear there is > no problem. If it defaults to one then there is a minor problem. The > strange thing is, most seem to default to 0, but one or two percent > seem to go to 1. Anybody know if the default state is defined? > > Martin > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > "[PIC]:" PIC only "[EE]:" engineering "[OT]:" off topic "[AD]:" ad's -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: "[PIC]:" PIC only "[EE]:" engineering "[OT]:" off topic "[AD]:" ad's -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: "[PIC]:" PIC only "[EE]:" engineering "[OT]:" off topic "[AD]:" ad's