help getting mcufriend tftp display to work

You can select as much of a Serial Window as you like. Paste it to your message.

thaynes sounds a fairly Anglo-Saxon name. Google DMM. See what it says.
Hint. A device for measuring voltage, current, resistance.

If you don't have a DMM, the diagnostic paste will tell me most things.

David.

Edit. The touchshield_new does no diagnosis. It simply reports the default values.
I would like to see the diagnostic.