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OK, now I am beginning to beleive my STK-500 may be faulty

  I just plugged an AT90S2313 into it.  Correct socket, all jumpers are 
set appropriately, per the User Guide.  When I turn it on, the "Target 
Power LED begins slowly blinking  (a condition not documented in the 
User Guide) and the Status LED begins also blinking slowly, which the 
USer GU8ide asserts indicates a short circuit on the AREF power line.   
Weird.

  I also cannot read or write the to chip without getting the same 
meaningless error messages I have been referring to all along, including 
the error message CLAIMING a log has been written. I can locate *NO* 
newly written log fiels anywhere on my system (I have used 
Start->Search->Files and Folders to no avail).

   This makes no sense.  Has anyone in here ever received, or heard of 
anyone receiving an STK-500 that didn;t work correctly? Mine came from 
Digikey a few weeks ago

  OH, yerah, power supply: I am running mine off a 12 volt rail, and the 
regulatro is not even noticeably warm to the touch, so I don;t think 
that is a problem.

tom