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thanks, the cable is female to female, however as i said it is a RS232 L68BT serial lead 9pin female from Maplins, but it doesn,t say null modem. someone earlier said i need part number L71BT cable. also i have noticed in windows xp in device manager com port no longer states baud rate ??. what do you set ?

 

you can set the baud rate in gtromloader mine is 115200.

 

ryanmg. thanks very much for the information. but have i got the wrong cable my friend ??

 

once its 9 pin female to female it should work.

 

Ryan, Handford has a straight through rs232 cable which wont work im afraid. He needs a null modem cable as this has a different pin out, both have a 9 pin female to female gender, hence the mix up most people are having when purchasing these upload cables.

 

alright didn't know that thanks for the info.guess your out of luck handford.

 

Hi lads thanks a lot for your help earlier, the emu did the trick im back in action!

Cheers!

 

scouser can you help the guy at this link can't figure out whats the prob.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/525745

hopefully you can.

 

Thanks for all your help working perfectly

 

no prob.

 

I will have a look Ryan only here for a while see what I can do.

 

thanks

 

thanks ryanmg and scOucer for the information. i will have to exchange it at Maplins hopefully (still boxed up)can you confirm that i need L71BT null modem lead for the flashing ??

 

i got mine in maplins.and on the front it said 9 pin female to female rs232 cable and in brackets null modem

 

So many people come on this forum getting the message flash failed. It's not wonder after people keep telling them to get a 9 pin female to female rs232 cable. They go into Maplins see that cable waste their money then get told to go back into Maplins and get a NULL MODEM cable
Serial: RS232 9pin female to female DOES NOT WORK
Serial: NULL MODEM 9pin female to female DOES WORK

 

If you look on the back of your box it will explain that their are two different types of serial cable. One is RS232 one is NULL MODEM. How it says both on your box I don't know

If you go to Maplins people just ask for order code L71BT. Just last week I was in Maplins looking at both box's to make sure I was not giving peole the wrong advise and the box that saysw RS232 contains the cable that does not work. The bos that says Serial Lead [NULL MODEM] order code L71BT conatains the cable that does work. So why when we know people see RS232 and buy the wrong cable are members still telling them to get it

 

over were it says null modem.the null modem was like this [NULL MODEM]
and just above it it said 9 pin female to female rs232 cable.

 

crashd,

if i go into maplins and ask for order code l71bt they will get me a null modem cable.

 

Well I am amazed what is the part number on the box. I know if you go to Maplins site on the net and search for L71BT it will return the right cable. I've still got the box and it does not say what yours does because what yours does.

On the back it says
Serial connections are slower connections generally used by older equipment.There are two common version available.RS232 is a standard used to coonect to connect computers to other devices such as modems. NULL MODEM is a standard used to connect two computers together to create a basic network.
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Like I said before people buy the RS232 it does not work they go back to Maplins buy the NULL and it works. That is the bottom line

 

yeah just make sure it says null modem