On 4/1/2012 11:52 PM, Dwayne Reid wrote: > At 01:33 PM 4/1/2012, Joe Wronski wrote: > >> o Crappy software - MPLAB X should have known the target board had >> shorted supply. > Question: How could MPLABX possibly know about a shorted power rail > on the target board? All it knows is that it can't communicate with > the target chip, which could be any of a dozen (or more) different proble= ms. > > Not being confrontational - I'm genuinely curious. > > dwayne > Because the target board was being powered by the ICD3. In the original=20 MPLAB, I recall a dialog box that reported VDD and VPP. Joe W --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .