Thanks Greg,
I will check the pin out of the cable I am using. The serial cable I have is a null modem, however it is not the cable that I originally had which was the one that had S to S written on the DB9 connectors, but rather just an off the shelf nul modem cable. I do have a serial magic box somewher that I can also use to verify the pin outs too. I will post my results after I have checked it out.
Thanks again for your response.