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Hi People!,

I have a seriously weird problem....

I have set up an arduino with the enc26j60 breakout (etherShield lib), a 16X2 LCD (PCFCrystal lib) and some less relevant
extensions.
The problem i'm facing is that when i trij to use the two together the arduino reboots 
I have a running website that will have to be interrupted but that's not a big deal and everything runs until i give a input on
the i2c keypad. I've tried a lot of things but the only way is to delete the code from the loop with all the etherShield print and the etherShield respond.

I hope my explanation is clear enough 

Any suggestions?

-Kenny-

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and some less relevant extensions

might be more relevant than you thought  -  do you provide enough power to drive all those goodies

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Thanks for the quick reply,

I have it connected on my usb and than it all works fine, but to be sure i connected an external 450mA wall adapter, so i guess when it runs from usb than this extra should do

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I just measured and it takes up about 250mA in total

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I'm really stuck on this and guess that i have to try some different lib's perhaps, it's a shame because i liked these   

I will try some stuff next weekend but add the weirdest part.

I took everything from the loop in the ethershield example and placed it in a separate sub called EtherLoop(),
if i comment out the call of etherloop everything works (by that i mean that i also setup everything for the ethershield loop).
Now i can make a "if(some_bool = true)" and leave some_bool false and uncomment the EtherLoop(), now it's not called for sure
but still rebooting (like, huh?) but if i comment it out and leave the loop but don't call it than it works....

Anyone have any other ideas?

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Is there no one with any ideas at all?

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Is there no one with any ideas at all?

Patience is a virtue

What is the voltage of the Wall wart? it should be 7 VOlt at least - see hardware specs.

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It's 5 volt but i connected the atmega on a breadboard without my uno pcb, so i guess that 5v is max?

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Just for the sake of trying i took a 5v 1000mA power supply home from work yesterday, but the results where the same. There is also no voltage dip anywhere(also tried the 3,3 volt voltage regulator for the enc28j60).

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Why are you blaming power ?
Arduino reboot loop() usually is bad programming leading to memory corruption or no free SRAM for runtime.
As you mentioned you have a LCD, are you storing all your string into PROGMEM ? If no, you should.

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I could try that thanks for the input!

But i've been trying some more and what i found out was that it actually hang at a Serial.print("something key pressed"); so i guess that it could be that i just have to use the progmem

I just had some small things with arduino and this is the first "a little big" so these are the things i run in to i guess 

I really wan't to thank you guys for the input and i think i can almost say it's solved, i am going to really through test this one! 

Did not expect this, but the better it feels when you see a solution 

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Finally everything is up and running again!

Again thanks! 

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So was it really SRAM ?

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o sorry didn't come back for some time but yes it was!

I got it working now with declaring all my strings first with progmem