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I have had that problem with accidentally programming the AVR for an
external crystal. I have an STK-500 and it allows you to rescue the chip
with parallel programming.

The STK500 is well worth the cost. The only drawback is, I wish it came
with ZIF sockets. I'd be willing to pay the extra bucks for that feature.

Zack

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Tim Mitchell <tim@sabretechnology.co.uk>wrote:

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> > But I always thought it was dumb too, that the Atmel chip
> > had to be running
> > with a crystal in order to program it.
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> This is not the case, you can do everything on AVR using the internal
> oscillator.
>
> The problem we were discussing earlier was how to rescue the chip if you
> accidentally configure it to have an external crystal, when it hasn't
> got one.
>
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> Tim Mitchell
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