MCSPlus serial interface to EasyPIC6 not working?

[jellis00]

I've never used this board, but it looks like there's a ton of jumpers on there. And if you're not getting even an LED to blink, I would bet you're just missing a jumper setting!

Might even try replacing the PIC.

I just burned a test program into the chip via same programming path I've been using that is a "blinky LED". It works fine. This tells me that at least the MCU chip will run and is OK. However, from what I saw that I described in my previous post, the serial interface code is NOT running in the MCU. Don't know why it would run with one program and not the other???

Is the POWER LED ON?

[/QUOTE] Yes it is.

I just was wondering if it might be the USB to Serial converter cable I have to use because the Laptop I am using doesn't have a true serial (RS232) interface connector. I am using an ATEN UC232A USB-to-serial converter cable that connects to the DB9 connector on the EasyPic6 serial interface. It has a light built in to the serial end of the cable that comes on when the TX and RX switch selections are correct on SW7 and SW9 and the MCU is powered up. I have heard before that some of these USB to serial cables don't always work with some serial interfaces. Have any ideas about this one?
If that isn't it, then it is looking more and more like a failure in one of the compnents in the EasyPic6 serial circuit.....possibly the MAX202 they use...just don't know how to text the circuit to see if it is a H/W failure.
I'm really running out of ideas.