Hi mackrackit,

I thought I'd give the cable 'one more go' and would you believe it the cable 'connected' to the PIC. It wouldn't send/receive at first though, so changed the settings to:

Code:
COM1 :BAUD 2400 :No Parity :Byte size is 8 :1 stop bit
And seems to be working now

Do those settings seem ok to you?

How lucky was that! I very nearly called it a day with that cable/driver.

Dave