Well Dont bother anyways....

I figured out myself after three intense days of PIC-coding I cracked the
nut:) Variables were overwriting each others, The timer int was enabled...
the list goes on and on:)

Soren Knudsen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soren Knudsen [mailto:Soren_Knudsen@softhome.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 3:42 PM
> To: PICLIST
> Subject: Rs232 Rcv to PIC16F84
>
>
> Hi All!
>
> I'm Having major problems here:( Whatever I do I cant Receive
> Data from the RS232 port of my computer!
>
> Single bytes work fine. But when I try to make a routine that
> incree FSR each time a start bit occurs, reads the 8 bit and stop
> bit and returns to wait for another Start bit things go mad some
> of the bytes are delayed and some of the bytes bits are delayed
> too. It looks like random delays to me.
>
> The PIC gets clocked from a 10 Mhz crystal which means that it
> has 2500.000 cycles per second - correct me if I'm wrong. This
> means that at 115.200 Baud rate (RS232) there are 21,7 cycles in
> the PIC per RS232 Clock and that every byte is 217 PIC cycles
> long right (including Start/Stop-Bits?
>
> The only Posible thing left causing the troubles as far as I can see is:
>
> A) Strange RS232-Port at pc
>
> B) Strange Buffer at PC-Port
>
> C) Strange Program Sending out the data (the Program used is a
> Terminal prog called "Hyperterminal" that followed with Win98 SE).
>
> All help appreciated
> Soren Knudsen