As Coral says, I would use DOS to program. You will need Hyperterminal, Procomm or Putty opened and running to access. If my feeble memory serves me, you do a reboot as you have done, but while doing it, look at the Screen on your laptop. It will show an option for a screen redirect to the Comm port?? I think there is also one other command you have to enter also. Perhaps Coral can help with that. Comm setting should 38400, 8,N,1 Xon/Xoff
