RA5/MCLR input in 16f88

[mister_e]

i don't believe it's gonna work. These setting are only for the PIC programmer at programming time.

[Acetronics2]

A simple clear is to jump to the beginning of the program if pin 5 = xxx
with very little work , you do what you want for clearing registers ...

Now, If your program fails, then it's a programming problem ... not a hardware problem.

Remenber chips never do errors ...

Alain