Arduino UNO Windows 7 Serial.print() not working

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hello I am am currently using an Arduino UNO on windows 7 32bit my project used to work printing statements out on the serial monitor however now my programs do not print anything.

I modified the blink program to print out during it's loop and this worked after a while but at first the characters were illegible (with the serial monitor set to the correct baud rate) and after a few runs of the loop these errors seemed to just correct themselves.

On the project I am working on nothing is being printed out on the serial monitor all the only difference in my program is that I include SoftwareSerial.h
The start of my program is:

void setup()
{
   Serial.begin(9600);
    delay(2000);
   Serial.println("Beginning");
}

And even this does not seem to work.

Has anyone had any experience with this problem before?

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void setup()
{
   Serial.begin(9600);
    delay(2000);
   Serial.println("Beginning");
}

void loop() {}

...does not work?

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Hi

Sorry I had the void loop() in too it was purely that it wasn't even printing the first Serial.print() , I downloaded the latest IDE and it seems to be working now, I'm think it was some kind of compiler issue, even on the new IDE my program is 2kb less in size than on the older (0021) IDE

It just doesn't explain why it was working on the old IDE and than stopped suddenly :stuck_out_tongue: