Weird Oscillator Problem

[Charles Linquis]

My suspicion is that when you have the oscillator type set to 'XT' and you have such a high frequency crystal, you are actually running at a sub-multiple of the actual frequency. Since the PIC is running so slow, the LCD has no trouble responding.

When you set the oscillator type to 'HS' it then runs at the true crystal frequency (14.7xMhz), and the LCD can't keep up.

Add the lines

DEFINE LCD_COMMANDUS 2500
DEFINE LCD_DATAUS 200

To the top of the program, the LCD will work and your program will run fast.

[eoasap]

that worked, but i think maybe the PLL is enabled becuase even a pause 2000 seems like about 1/2 second or so (i dont have a scope to measure the exact frequency). i dont see how
__CONFIG _CONFIG1H, _OSC_XT_1H
would set the HS+PLL but it definately seems faster than ~15Mhz.


lcdout cmd, clr 'clears the LCD screen
pause 200 ' if this pause is not here, it will just print line1 as blank
lcdout cmd, line1, "14.7456 MHz"
pause 200 ' if this pause is not here, it will print a blank screen on line 2
lcdout cmd, line2, " Crystal Test"
pause 4000 ' this is about a 1 second pause