On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Bob Blick wrote: > solarwind wrote: >> My question is why is this happening on my breadboard but on on my low >> pin count demo board? > > I know you don't want to hear this, but you post a lot more questions to > the piclist than anyone else, and I'm sure quite a few people are > starting to ignore your posts and the threads they start. > > Why? Because when you post it sounds like you are too lazy to explain > what you have already done to investigate the problem. And it's obvious > that you also don't RTFM. > > You should do a lot more work before you post a question here. But I > believe other people have already said this to you, so perhaps what you > are doing is intentional, and you only want responses from people > willing to peel every grape for your mouth? > > Have you looked at the schematic for your demo board? There's a pullup > on VPP/MCLR. > > That's why the demo board doesn't reset all by itself. > > Cheerful regards, > > Bob I'm sure you don't want to hear this either, but you should RTFP. I've stated that the same 16F690 chip when pulled from the demo board and inserted onto the breadboard works flawlessly. No fancy pullup resistors or decoupling capacitors. -- ..::[ solarwind ]::.. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist