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Thomas Keller wrote:

> Bruce Parham wrote:
> 
>>Thomas Keller wrote:
>>
>>
>>>OK. I got a 40 pin universal ZIF soldered into my Dragon this
>>>afternoon.
>>
>>The manual is in studio under HELP->AVR Tools. The socket is isolated, 
>>you'll need to
>>connect it to the patch pads. Hint: add male pin headers to all of the 
>>patch pad
>>sets and wire wrap the socket connections.
>>
>>/906 - Release Date: 7/17/2007 6:30 PM
>>  
> 
> PATCH PADS?  I saw a photo of a Dragon with a ZIF socket soldered in 
> palce, I assumed this would work.  How in hell do I mount the socket to 
> the Dragon? What a stupid doggoned design.   Now I assuem I'l have to 
> desolder the doggoned socket, as well. *HUMPH*
> 
>     I cannot access AVRStudio Help files, as the wonderful people at 
> Atmel programmed it to require IE to be installed on the system for the 
> help files to work, and I WILL NOT install that misbegotten piece of 
> CRAP on my system. Too many things default to it if it is installed.
> 
> 
>   I am getting very frustrated. I can't seem to get the STK-500 to 
> connect  to the ATtiny25 either. I have set the ISPROG header into the 
> SPROG1 header, and used two jumpers, for XT1 to PB5 and RST to PB3.  
> AVRStudio keeps telling me there is a problem no matter what I ask it to 
> do, Can;t read the signature bytes, can;t write to it, can't erase it.  
> ***DAGNAB IT*
> 
> tom
> 
> tom
> 

I just added a .PDF version of the manual to the group files section...

Bruce