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From: lipsettm@crl.aecl.ca (M. Lipsett)
Subject: Re: miniboard downloading help
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In article <31p71r$hvr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dt015@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott L. Dodson) writes:
>
>
>When I try to download to my miniboard, I plug it in to the
>serial port and the green LED comes on. I then power it up and
>the red LED comes on dimly, and the green LED dims some. I hit
>reset and the red one goes off, but the green stays dim. When
>I try downloading, the bootstrap programs downloads successfully
>but then both LEDs flash brightly, and I get the message
>
>Synchronizing with board...................failed
>
>This happened on two different PC's and a Sparcstation LX with a
>couple of different .s19 files. If anyone has any suggestions, I
>would greatly appreciate them. 
>
>-Scott Dodson
>
>email: sdodson@fedex.com

Try switching TX and RX. It happened to me...

Cheers,
- Mike
