Hi all,

        For the seemingly dead 'F87x chips. Make sure the LVP pin is
held low, and not floating. This bit me when I tried one of these
newer chips. Mine came programmed for LVP mode and were very erratic,
until I grounded this pin.

Heinz


At 4:32 PM -0400 7/19/01, David A. Gianna, MS, CCSE, ACE/ADM wrote:
>I have had the same problem - mind you, the PIC 16f876 is new to me --
>
>I wrote a trivial program to blink an LED (the equivalent of print hello), and
>an even more trivial program to set all outputs on every port high.
>My logic probe does not show either high or low, so it appears to be
>tri-stated.
>I am using a single 8Mhz 3-pin resonator.
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