Its very true erik but I find it hard to believe that a bad reset makes the micro overheat
absolutely, I just wanted to kick in that other problems existed with the reset. Anyhow, reading the original post, I think it can. He reset 4 uCs and possibly if some does not get reset and some does, he can have a uC to uC signal pulled high in one end and low in the other. I know that particularily port 0 deos not like at all to look at a short to ground during memory access.

Erik