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At 06:39 PM 3/13/2004 -0800, LightYearCS wrote:

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>            This is a rumor I heard.  Even a field engineer thinks he heard of this also.
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>            It s said that if you use the same values for each of the capacitors used in the crystal oscillator circuit that sometimes the oscillator will not start up and remain in a state of lockup.  Has anyone else heard of this?


Post hoc fallacy. 
If it doesn't start, it's not because the caps are equal.