microcontroller picking up noise?

[Zak698]

Phill,
I am currently interning at Microchip, my respose would be to try to take out the crystal and just use the internal clock, try that and see what happens, also what do you ahve the reset vecor set to do? and i know you hooked up a multimeter to the input power but have you tryed looking at it thro a scop and seeing how much current it drawing?

[BrianBSL]

Originally Posted by Zak698

Phill,
I am currently interning at Microchip, my respose would be to try to take out the crystal and just use the internal clock, try that and see what happens, also what do you ahve the reset vecor set to do? and i know you hooked up a multimeter to the input power but have you tryed looking at it thro a scop and seeing how much current it drawing?

The scope isn't going to tell him how much current he is drawing without a special current probe or a low resistance shunt on the input.

However, I do agree with trying the internal RC oscillator, and make sure you have your fuse bits set for the right type and speed of crystal oscillator. Do you have any capacitors to ground on the crystal? The datasheet for the PIC should be able to tell you what size, but I think normal is the 10-20pF range.