MCSP Loader Problem pls help

[Nestyplus]

Sean,

Thanks for info I shall try that and see if it works. I'll come back for the feedback.

Regards,
Nesty

[Nestyplus]

Hi Sean,

I got it working under the MCSP environment.. What I did is I changed the
crystal to 20Mhz. I did not noticed that I was using 10Mhz..

So it's working under MCSP environment switching to reset...kind of slow though.

Anyway, here another issue. As you can see it's working in the MCSP environment. But when I get inside the Loader. Please see attached (I just pasted from your link) mine does not show any serial ports. It is set to none.

Any reason why?

Thanks,
Nesty

[sean-h]

What I did is I changed the
crystal to 20Mhz. I did not noticed that I was using 10Mhz..

Yep that would not of helped, you could of left it at 10mhz and asked Mecanique to re-compile a new bootloader for 10mhz, they are pretty good when it comes to that. I think they supply 4mhz and 20mhz bootloaders by default.

So it's working under MCSP environment switching to reset...kind of slow though.

It sounds like it is on auto detect baud and dropping to 19200 rather than 115000. Try setting it to a higher baud rather than auto detect.

Anyway, here another issue. As you can see it's working in the MCSP environment. But when I get inside the Loader. Please see attached (I just pasted from your link) mine does not show any serial ports. It is set to none.

Sorry cannot see any attachment.

If it does not show any serial ports then this is because it cannot detect any at start up or you have another program using the Com port at the time you are running the application. Make sure you have nothing on your task bar running such as activsync or any other programs that could be using them.
Also if using a usb to serial link, make sure it is initialised first before running the application.

Regards

Sean.

[Nestyplus]

Hello Sean,

It's working now...

Although, it's kind of odd that the serial port box display a 'none'

Btw, you are right I am using the usb/rs232 link on a laptop.

Thanks for the help.

Regards,
Nesty