OK, I've made some progress. It was unclear to me before that I needed to connect the gnd wire from the battery to the PCB. That did the trick and I as able to hyperterm to the board. Now I have a new issue. I got to this part: after I connected I typed F3 2>U (enter) noting happened. I appear to have lost the connection, so I powered everything down and started from the beginning. However this time I am not able to connect, just blank screen when I CRTL+Z Any suggestions on my next step? Thanks