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Hi,
I have 10 custom Arduino Boards I have designed.  I am running them without the boot loader on the ATMega2560V.  When the watchdog timer is used to reset the board it will hang until I cycle the power.  Only about half of them are doing this.  I am completely stumped. Why?

Thanks

[Reply #1 on:]

can it be that the WD resets the Arduino direct after boot up again? some interval too short?

can you post your code that causes this behaviour?

[Reply #2 on:]

I have the Watchdog set to 8 seconds.  So I doubt it gets reset during the boot phase. 
I also seem to just get white spaces in the serial monitor from the beginning and nothing useful when it seems to be starting up. :/
Also after the watchdog reset the reset button no longer works

Below is my setup code

Code:

void setup()
{
 wdt_enable(WDTO_8S);
 wdt_reset();
 for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
 {
    alarming[i] = 0;
 } 

 sent_packet = 0;
 pinMode(LEDRed, OUTPUT);
 pinMode(LEDGreen, OUTPUT);
 pinMode(LEDBlue, OUTPUT);
 digitalWrite(LEDBlue, HIGH);
 digitalWrite(LEDGreen, HIGH);
 digitalWrite(LEDRed, LOW);

 Wire.begin();
 Serial.begin(9600);
 Serial.println("Getting MAC: ");

 mac[0] = readRegister(0xFA);
 mac[1] = readRegister(0xFB);
 mac[2] = readRegister(0xFC);
 mac[3] = readRegister(0xFD);
 mac[4] = readRegister(0xFE);
 mac[5] = readRegister(0xFF);

 sprintf(tmpBuf, "%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X", mac[0], mac[1], mac[2], mac[3], mac[4], mac[5]);
 wdt_reset();
 Serial.println(tmpBuf);
 pinMode(EtherReset, OUTPUT);
 digitalWrite(EtherReset, LOW);

Serial.println("just reset");
 pinMode(ChargeEnable, OUTPUT);
 pinMode(chipSelect, OUTPUT);
 pinMode(EtherSleep, OUTPUT);
 pinMode(PowerMonitor, INPUT);
 pinMode(batterylevelpin, INPUT);  //Battery Level Meter

 // Initialize and set the contrast to 0x18
 glcd.begin(0x18);
 glcd.display(); // show splashscreen
 // Start Ethernet and UDP
 wdt_reset();
 Serial.println("ethernet begin");
 while (Ethernet.begin(mac) == 0)
 {
    Serial.println("Failed to configure Ethernet using DHCP");
    // No point in carrying on, so do nothing forevermore:
    continue;
 }
 wdt_reset();
 Udp.begin(localPort);
 Udp.begin(socketsPort);
 Dns.begin(Ethernet.dnsServerIP());

 if (!card.init(SPI_HALF_SPEED, chipSelect)) {
    return;
 }
 else
 {
   Serial.println("Wiring is correct");
 }
 wdt_reset();
 glcd.clear();
 glcd.drawstring(0, 0, "Mac Address");
 glcd.drawstring(0, 1, tmpBuf);

 while(connectpes() != 1){}

 sensorcon[20] = sensorNum;
 sensorcon[21] = '\0';


 glcd.drawchar(0, 2, sensorNum);
 if (sensorNum == 49) { glcd.drawstring(12, 2, "Sensor Connected");}
 else { glcd.drawstring(12, 2, "Sensors Connected");}
 glcd.drawstring(0, 3, "Version 1.0.0");
 wdt_reset();
 if ( (alarming[0] == 1) || (alarming[1] == 1) || (alarming[2] == 1) || (alarming[3] == 1) || (alarming[4] == 1) || (alarming[5] == 1) || (alarming[6] == 1) || (alarming[7] == 1) )
 {
    digitalWrite(LEDBlue, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(LEDGreen, LOW);
    digitalWrite(LEDRed, HIGH);
 }
 else
 {
    digitalWrite(LEDBlue, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(LEDGreen, LOW);
    digitalWrite(LEDRed, LOW);       
 }
 wdt_reset();
 glcd.display();
 succ = aes.set_key (key, 256) ;
 delay(1000);
 glcd.clear();
 wdt_reset();
}

[Reply #3 on:]

missing the includes and the definition of the vars  (the compiler is my head has parse error's

If you place a serial print as first action in the setup() does it show up in the monitor?

[Reply #4 on:]

Hi,
All my code was fine, turns out some of my fuse settings were incorrect.   
So I guess problem solved.