Quote Originally Posted by mackrackit View Post
Can you post your schematic and/or a picture of your setup. I think it is down to a hardware problem now.

Caps on the 232?
Cable is straight through?
Usb to serial converter?
Real serial port?
Port on PC is known to be good?

Hold one hand in the air while touching you big toe?

Could be anything now.
Well... you'd have to give me a while to get a schematic drawn up. There are 4 caps on the 232. The cable is a regular serial cable, male on one end female on the other. I don't have a USB to serial converter although using that while trying to debug does work. It is a serial port on the back of my computer so I'm assuming that it is a real port. This is first time I've really tried using the serial port so as far as knowing whether its good or not I don't know, nor do I know how to check. Device manager does say that device is working properly with no problems. Lol, and not sure I want to try that one or not. Probably fall flat on my face.