can't get serin to work

[mister_e]

It's just too bad that there's no OSCCAL or OSCTUNE on that one

Serial com=crystal

OR manually set the USART SPBRG value and find the one that work not something i would use...

DEFINE HSER_RCSTA 90h ' Enable serial port & continuous receive
DEFINE HSER_TXSTA 20h ' Enable transmit, BRGH = 0
DEFINE HSER_SPBRG 25  ' 2400 Baud @ 4MHz, 0.17%
DEFINE HSER_CLROERR 1 ' Clear overflow automatically

Pause 500

Start:
     FOR SPBRG=15 to 30
          HSEROUT ["SPBRG=",#SPBRG]
          PAUSE 250
          NEXT
     GOTO Start

you may try to use the same method but with SEROUT2.

Good luck!

PS: Use Microcode Studio serial communicator (F4), easier ....