Debug Port: Wrong character set?

[StevenBowtie]

Hi All,
I've finally got the iMX233 Micro to boot, however the data I'm receiving is not printing correctly in PuTTY or minicom. It is set for 115200 baud, Data bits: 8, Stop bits: 1, No Parity, and all the encoding settings available and what I get is the following:

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This is only a sample of where it pauses after, what I would guess, is the boot sequence and it responds to input, but not with the typed characters. I've tried using both the "OLinuXino_Debian_FS" and "debian_rootfs" file systems using the "debian_mx23.img" boot image. I've also removed R17 as suggested in other topics. Thanks in advance for the help!

[jeroends]

I would check your uart hardware connections. Make shure that you've got your ground, txd and rxd right connected. I've made once that mistake and got +/- the same result.

[flavigny]

ooops,
it is typically what you receive when crossing txd and ground.
regards
PO.

[StevenBowtie]

I tried switching TX and RX, which only succeeded in not receiving any data. After much digging and cursing, I located my backup FTDI cable and now it works fine. Thanks for the help, sorry it was just a bad cable!