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Okay, I have tried all the suggestions and even made a SMT to DIP
converter so that I could plug the chip into the STK500 socket and
nothing is working... I don't know what could be going wrong... I really
need to get this cicuit finish (and everything is finished except for
programing the chip) so I guess I am just going to go back to DIP Chips
and call it a loss on the smd guys (just hated to have a board with all
smd componets and then a big through hole dip chip siting in the middle
of it all taking up so much space).
Thanks for all your help,
Daniel