Re: [avr-gcc-list] ATMEGA128 Randomly hanging!!!! help!!!

[Anton Erasmus]

On 2003/12/20 at 08:14 Shadab Ansari wrote:

>hi..
> i mailed a few days back that my atmega got fried...well it was not fried
>but started working dead slow.......it gets back to normal speed anytime
>and goes back to dead state anytime....i cant figure out the problem..i
>have redone the oscillator soldering,changed the crystal to a slower
>one...but still no use..it just hangs randomly and doesnt even repond to
>the programmer which by the way is ponyprog...
>thanks
>shadab
>

Try switching to the internal oscillator. The external oscillator circuitry 
might have been
damaged. You can also try an external oscillator module.

Regards
   Anton Erasmus