Wondering...how do you in fact know that the pins are actually dead...i.e. not doing anything?
I know you said "by a scope" back in post #1...but what do you mean by 'scope'? A freq. meter, a 1Khz BW o-scope? A good o-scope with a decent bandwidth?
I begin to wonder if in fact the pins are really doing something, but the method you are using to see said something is faulty...because any pulses coming out of I2CC/I2CD would probably be too fast to see with an ordinary meter.
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