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Hi all!

After pulling the device out of the circuit (no, not brute force -
desoldering was the task *g*) I put it in an external programmer,
flashed the same hex-file and fuses as with the ICSP interface - put it
back in circuit - and it worked and still works (also with ICSP).

Ok, I was calling Atmel these days to find the key to this prob (it's
not nice to pre-flash ks of devices if the application goes into
production...) - they suppose the transfer rate on the ICSP to be to
high. Low enough to flash the program and the E2PROM but
a litle bit to high for the fuses. Not knowing why there might be some
difficulty in timing during  fuse-programming - I should check this.

I can't tell anything about that, but it seems a litle bit strange to
me. All goes but the fuses don't ?!?

There must be a way using ICSP from the very first programming on all
devices. I don't want to buy an STK 500 for high voltage p/s programming

as the Atmel guy suggested - I use SMD-devices and so it might not be
the
best choice in my case.

Is there anybody out there to bring a little bit of light into my
darkness ??

Thanks a lot
Marcus