Okays, osc in config bits is now set to INTRC,
put 51 in spbrg (8MHz, high speed, internalRC,9600 baud)

and when I fire up hyperterm and start the program, nothing happens. 
At all.  Hyperterm stays blank.

On 5/2/05, Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com> wrote:
> Dave Turner wrote:
> > I just discovered whilst reading the datasheet that intrc isn't
> > actually the internal 8mhz osc, but an internal RC (well, duh, but I
> > didn't notice).
> 
> They are the same thing.  The internal 8MHz oscillator is implemented as an
> R/C oscillator.  I sortof remember (this means it's your job to check) that
> this PIC has one of the new "precision internal oscillators".  If so, it
> should be good enough to talk to Hyperterm on a PC, but only if it's
> calibrated.  Again, I don't have the data sheet here, but on many PICs the
> calibration value is stored somewhere special and your program has to fetch
> it and write it to OSCCAL.  This may not apply to you.  In any case, read
> the data sheet section on the internal oscillator carefully (actually, read
> the whole thing carefully).
> 
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