Thanks for the replies. Interesting, the resonator with no caps....is oscillating at its rated frequency but maybe it doesnt have enough drive for the PIC. I hope thats the issue with not running in debug, pretty sure it is since I had a 40MHz xtal on it, and it seemed to work, just didnt want to run the part at 40Mhz. So I'll drop a couple caps on and see what happens. Thanks guys. --------------------------------- Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist