Long story short. I burnt a 20mhz bootloader onto my attiny85, it worked, but then it stopped working completely, so I placed a 20mhz crystal as explained and the smallest ceramic caps i could find! Still dead, So I went out to jaycar, picked up 2 27p ceramic caps, placed them in series with the …

Atmega External Crystals...

Coding_Badly December 7, 2012, 4:12am 2

I believe this is involved in the process.

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