16f886 weirdness

Hello All:
After 6 hours I am stumped....I can't get PORTB to behave normally. I have whittlerd down my prg to bare basics and still can't solve it.
Here is the code, nothing else is happening.

The circuit is attached, although I don't see any interaction to cause this. I have changed the MCU already, both behave the same and both are new.


Thanks for any thoughts.

You are still in bank two... You need to return to Bank one for PORTB banksel PORTB

Sorry actually you are,,, missed the clrf status (this doesn't clear some bits)

This works in ISIS...

Try turning of the comparator module... TIG is on that pin

Yeah it works in ISIS.

As for T1G:

I did that as well, cleared T1CON. no change so took it off b4 I posted to keep it simple.

Hard to figure.

I am going to dismantle this circuit board slowly, isolating pin by pin, perhaps there is some type of electrical problem. Just guessing now.

EDIT: Well it was an elec. problem. A short on an RB5 pullup resistor bridging to RB2. But the short was apparently >50ohm which defeated the DMM continuity test, no beep. However it was enough to cause electrical interactions between RB2 & 5 so that unless they were both at the same state an indeterminate result could obtain on both of them.