> Gently breathing on it also will show the thermal effect, which is
> quite impressive.

I had this girlfriend once .......

If you can change the behaviour of the chip like that (and the WDT
initiation timing) it must indicate a physical problem - ie the silicon or
the bonding perhaps. I've had a project where the order of setting
various module configurations in the power-up section, all prefectly
legitimate ways according to the datasheet, could stop the ADC
working properly

And you might have missed a post of mine a couple of months back.
How the SPI module (very suspect construction IMVHO) on a dsPIC
was used affected even the RETURN instruction

Which is just nutty. Silicon nutty. I went through both problems with
Microchip - just as you have with Atmel - they could offer no
explanations or solutions, so I had to find my own

Joe
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