> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to determine if a PIC is damaged? On two PIC's I have the
> following symptoms:
>
> - When I put it in programming mode I can read from it (can verify that the
> chip id is a 16f628).

Are you sure that it is a 16f628 rather than a 16f628A?

Sometimes the "A" version have different programming algorithms.
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