Thread: 20x4 Problem - Odd charcters and layout

Hi, I've just bought and wired a 20x4 lcd panel, I've checked continuity, checked for shorts, checked the pinouts and everything. I am wanting to use it with Mpxplay, but when I plug it in, I get the lines of blak blocks, then it goes blank when mpxplay starts, and starts displaying something. It only shows line 1 and line 3, line 2 and 4 are blank, although they shouldnt be according to mpxplay.ini. The stuff which does display is unreadable, some characters appear right sometimes, most are just weird ascii or black blocks. Brackets and dashes appear to work ok. I've plugged it in to my Windows XP machine, and get the same problem when using LCDcenter. Anybody have any ideas?
Every now and then, there are odd words that are readable, i.e Kbps, Traffic\Outz AMBI\z\dTEMP, but still only lines 1 and 3 are working.