Sounds vaguely familiar to a problem I had with setting internal MCLR and internal osc simultaneouly with a 16F819 some time back. Could your problem be related to this? Cheers, -Neil. Quoting Eric Wolf : > Hi Everyone! > > Something very odd just started happening to my pickit2 programmer about an > hour ago. All of the sudden, it's destroying chips. I'm using the > PIC16F628A. and the software recognizes that I have inserted a blank micro > with that model on it. Program it once, and suddenly the device is > unrecognizeable. Interestingly enough though, if I power VDD to the unit, > it will run the firmware on the chip with what seems to be without issue. I > just can't ever access the chip again. It's very frustrating and was > wondering if anyone experienced something similar? > > Thanks, > > -Eric > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist