I have been messing with picstart again. I use it mainly for isp programming often it fails. so I got fed up with this and started to wonder why. I have always used a 10k pull up on mclr and a diode.
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on pins 1/ 4/ 14/ 32/ 40from there I got a schematic and noticed that mclr is pulled low with a 5.1k so I my pull-up is now 33k because I think the 10k was not being pulled low enough and not allowing pic to reset.
What value resistor do you use as a pull up on mclr ?
David
this is the second post the first never showed up