Dave,

Sorry about the mistakes in my typing . . .
I have TRIED a .1 cap to ground on PortA.5 because some comments in this thread indicated that might be of benefit. And it sort of makes sense as a method for smoothing out the switch bounce noise generated by a push button switch.

And there IS a 1K pullup on PortA.5.

It was my confusion that typed PortA.7 in the previous text.
I SHOULD have typed PortA.5 and got that mixed up with the pin number which resulted in my typing PortA.7.

This whole thing is about PortA.5 which is also Pin 7.

I do have +5 to both VDD pins and the 5 volt source is a 150 watt switching supply.

I have had a friend of mine look at VDD and Master Clear with his scope and both of these are steady as a rock when the push button is pressed and the whole thing RESETS.
Pressing the pushbutton to pull PortA.5 to ground does create a little noise from the switch bounce but I cannot see that any amount of noise on an input should result in a reset ??? Do you think ??

Thanks again,
Dan