Hi JDM,

It's your comments like "I can only get the chip to run stable if I tie that pin to Vdd with a resistor" that caused me to send you this comment. You give us clues to the mystery and it's up to us to guess what is going on. If you read enough posts on this forum you will see that many times the people on this forum ask for complete code listings and schematics to help us out.

Now you write "As far as having to tie inputs to ground or vdd, why is it only pin PORTA.2 that is giving me trouble?" I don't know what you have actually connected to your PIC. You are only talking about PortA.2. So when you comment about putting your finger on a pin or put a resistor to Vdd then the problem goes away, what do you think the response from us should be? You have gotten some good feedback from Paul, Sayzer, and myself as to the more common problems people have encountered with the types of comments you have made. Now it's your turn to help us out some more with a drawing of what you have going so we can help you more!

BobK