Sounds like you may have the wrong Baud rate set, either on the PIC side or
the computer side. Check to see what baud rate the code is for, make sure
you have the correct crystal/resonator/oscillator and make sure the PC is
set to the same rate. TTYL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Raymond Mouthaan
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 03:11
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: What should CHEAPIC "alpha4m.asm"do?
>
>
> First off all, thx for your reply Andrei B.
> What you told me is exactly what I expected, but instead of receiving the
> next 3 characters, I receive something like: <F1> or something
> else with the
> form of <**>. Suppose this is what I should receive after sending a 'a',
> then after sending the character 'a' for the second time, I should expect
> <F1> again, but this isn't what I receive. Somethimes after
> sending a couple
> of characters I receive a 'normal' character like 'a', 'b' and more like
> these, but most often I receive <**>.
>

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