Just to let you know the screen I had was apparently in some way corrupt, MO sent me a new one through the retailer I bought it off and it works perfectly now.

All I need is to find sometime to fully utilise it!

Cheers for all the help throughout though.

And I can't see why the baud would be a ...

The screen itself will jusfit (visible area) but you will need to sort the case to house the circuit boards etc as they are wider than 3 1/2", could be done though You won't need a very big bezel though!

It's ok I was just checking it was all there I was a bit wary after I was sent this MX212 as being the MX222 fromt he company I purchased it off, I have decided it will be easier to front this one with a piece of alluminium I have rather than send it back and try and get the right one!

Cheers for ...

Thanks I have tried that once already and have tried it again but it still displays boxes (i.e. one letter panel filled white).

My serial driver settings are:
Bits Per Second: 19200
Data Bits: 8
Parity: None
Stop Bits: 1
Flow Control: None

Also use FIFO buffers are on and high (changing them and ...

The pins to the right of the normal external usb socket on an MX212 are they the USB header for connecting the card to an internal USB header on the motherboard?

If so should the second pin from the top be cut off, i.e. leaving three pins protruding?

Cheers

Right it has taken ages so far to get this working at all on Win XP, finally after reading a few things the USB serial driver is on, and LCDC runs, but I can't get it to communicate properly, if I try to send text to it, i.e. the LCDC!! demo text I get one square box on the screen then again and I ...