thanks Joe s i did it but still nothing, I am now running a new PIC with LED's on the TX and RX lines just to elimenate any hardware problems here is the current code


DEFINE OSC 20 ' Define crystal as 20Mhz

'*Serial port Setup 9600 8N1*
DEFINE HSER_BAUD 9600 ; 9600 Baud
DEFINE HSER_RCSTA 90h ' Enable serial port & continuous receive
DEFINE HSER_TXSTA 24h ' Enable transmit, BRGH = 1
DEFINE HSER_CLROERR 1 ; Clear overflow automatically
DEFINE HSER_SPBRG 129

TRISC = %10000000 'RC7 as RX(input) rest as output

Main:
HSEROUT ["hallo"]
goto main
end