Serial comm's

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I have a question. Do you have to do anything special to be able do serial communication on MS v10? Before updating to 10 I did not have a problem with this and I have not changed anything in the RS232 properties. I tried a simple serial output on two different computer so I am thinking my Arduino serial control chip is probably bad.

I just get random numbers rather than a text line that I am outputting.

Has anyone else seen this?

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I have seen this when the "baud" rate is wrong. There may be other causes as well. It would help if you would post the text in code tags, and post the program following the guidelines below.

To post code and/or error messages:

  1. Use CTRL-T in the Arduino IDE to autoformat your complete code.
  2. Paste the complete autoformatted code between code tags (the </> button)
    so that we can easily see and deal with your code.
  3. Paste the complete error message between code tags (the </> button)
    so that we can easily see and deal with your messages.
  4. If you already posted without code tags, you may add the code tags by
    editing your post. Do not change your existing posts in any other way.
    You may make additional posts as needed.

Before posting again, you should read the three locked topics at the top of the Programming Questions forum, and any links to which these posts point.

If your project involves wiring, please provide a schematic and/or a wiring diagram and/or a clear photograph of the wiring.

Good Luck!

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Do you have to do anything special to be able do serial communication on MS v10?

What the heck is "MS v10"? Doesn't look like an Arduino.