Quote Originally Posted by Ioannis View Post
Why use a 555 and not directly connect the pushbutton to the /MCLR?

Ioannis
That was my plan. I've been doing that since forever, and it's only now causing problems.

I'm "guessing" it's because I'm using more and more peripherals in the PICs (timers, Interrupts, ADC, PWM, things I didn't really use much). I'm now using a lot more registers, and I'm guessing some of them are easily offended.