When I first started and knew no thing about electricity I read something about a pull up and tied my MCLR directly to the +5 rail.  That screwed it up for a while, but it came back.

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Olin Lathrop
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 2:44 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] fried 16F88?

Rob Hamerling wrote:
>> Plugging it in backwards could do that.
>
> Want to be funny? Other possibilities I did NOT ask about: feeding it
> with 230VAC, hitting it with an axe, heating it to 1500 degrees C, etc.
>
> I didn't remove the chip from the board or made any other hardware
> changes.... could you answer the real question, please?

I don't owe you anything, and you should keep in mind that you're the one
asking for free help.

And, I was serious about my comment.  Anyone who has plugged enough chips
into sockets has plugged a few of them in backwards.  I've done it with
PICs.  The few times this has happened, I have noticed they got really hot.
It's not hard to imagine the PIC might not respond as specified to
programming commands (or anything else) after that.




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