"hello world" with 18f6680

[dragons_fire]

sounds like a good trip... i think to fly we need a passport now, but to drive you just need two pieces of government id..

so i noticed a while ago that i had shorted one OSC pin to 5v, would that have blown the OSC part of the chip???

[skimask]

sounds like a good trip... i think to fly we need a passport now, but to drive you just need two pieces of government id..

It's all a bit confusing... To get into Canada, I need one thing, to get back into the U.S., I need other things. Gotta do more looking.

so i noticed a while ago that i had shorted one OSC pin to 5v, would that have blown the OSC part of the chip???

I wouldn't think so, but...you know how far that goes...
In external modes with crystals, the crystal/resonator is driving a differential amp inside the PIC (variable gain set by the CONFIG registers). I suppose if you had OSC1 driven to +5v and OSC2 driven to ground, you might blow it out (maximum differential = maximum output). Not really sure about that theory though, and surely not about to try it out.

[dragons_fire]

my stuff just got here a couple minutes ago, and so i soldered a new PIC to the board, and it WORKED!!!!

thanks to all the guys that had suggestions about why it didnt work, but it seems good now.. i just need to solder the top board back on (i was using jumper wires while testing)....