Hi Adam,

You mentioned...
AW> It's definately not the communications program because i've used 3
AW> diffrent progs and nothing has changed

Could be your COM port or your UART. Are you running any other S/W at 
the same time, eg, MS Office File Indexer, System Agent or the like?

Regards,
Peter

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