> You may be getting out of sync with the PIC and the PC if the
> frequency is off by more than a few percent.   Try lowering the
> baud rate on both the PC And your PIC board, and see if that
> makes any difference

Lowering the baud rate will just make errors take longer to happen.
If it is a timing problem, the PIC clock needs to be changed to match
the baud rate from the PC

Sam, are you going through an RS232 i/f (eg MAX232) ?

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