Do a read on the chip and make sure the osc setting is on xtal and not rc. I've been having this problem reccently and I can do a program and verify and all looks ok but if I read the chip it then shows me the osc is set to rc and not xtal despite the fact that i programed it as xtal. Regards Stuart John Hansen wrote: > > My previous development experience has been mostly limited to the flash > parts, so I may be missing something. I have a simple circuit put together > on my breadboard that simply feeds 5 volts to an 18 pin PIC and attaches a > 4 Mhz ceramic resonator to the appropriate pins. There are no other > connections (I stripped this down to try to eliminate sources of potential > error). The program I am using simply sets the TRIS registers to outputs > and then takes all of the pins high. When I plug a 16F84 into this circuit > it performs as expected. The pins are high and my frequency counter reads > about 4 MHz on the resonator pins. When I plug a windowed 16CE625 into the > same position, I get nothing. Not only are the pins not high, but there is > no reading on the frequency counter. From the data sheet it looks like > these chips should be pin compatible. Is there some trick to getting a > 16CE625 to run? I've tried this with 2 different windowed 625's with the > same result in both cases. The 625's are new -- came from DigiKey > today. Thanks in advance for any assistance. > > John Hansen > > Here's the code for the 16CE625 version. My programmer verifies it as > being in the chip. > > list p=16CE625 > __CONFIG 0X3FF9 > org 0x00 > movlw 0x00 > clrf 0X05 > movlw 0x07 > movwf 0X1F > BSF 0X03,5 > MOVLW 0X00 > MOVWF 0X85 > MOVLW 0X00 > MOVWF 0X86 > BCF 0X03,5 > MOVLW 0X1F > MOVWF 0X05 > MOVLW 0XFF > MOVWF 0X06 > DONE GOTO DONE > END > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.