[Greg Ross]

I think that was the error I saw last night when I was using one of the other engineer's Windows XP laptop (I normally have used Win95.) When I downloaded a program which contained debug statements, and closed the debug window, I would get a basic run error on the robot. To recover from the error, I had to do one of the following:[list=1][*]Start up a new debug window.[*]Download a new program (and reset the robot controller)[*]Disconnect the programming cable between the robot and the laptop (and reset the robot controller -- I think.)[/list=1]

If that doesn't do it for you, the old standby reply is "Make sure the data requested in your initialization shiftout matches the variables read in the serin command."