Ya okay, so moved the 2 8 pin chips from the good dongle to the suspect one and I'm still getting flashing. What is interesting however is that if I select channel 2 I actually don't only get Green flashing, I see after 3 or more Flashes of Green, and then will see the red flash. (that's not right at all
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So I'm very unclear now how channel 1 LED's are getting juice when I've selected channel 2 only. And again it's every few flashes, I will see it go from Grn to Red.
So anyways, moved the 2 8 pins no change, my good one is still good, the bad one is still bad. I've swapped the PIC. Maybe it's the CAP? But I only have in smaller sizes , some 16volts 47uf Capacitors. If those will work I can try to swap out the cap.
So not sure what's next. I guess the crystal could be bad, I also thought maybe the usb, but that connects and my computer seems to chat with it just fine, so really unsure. Could the RJ45 connector be off.. anyways just sure