I have used self made female-female cable. I referred to this from some manual:
Forbindelseskablet er monteret med et 9-polet Sub-D stik i begge ender.
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Kabeltilslutning: Fra IHC ben 2, 3, 5, 8 til PC ben 2, 3, 5, 8
Kabell?ngde: 2 meter
...and it works perfectly. I can get project from controller, but I can't send project to controller because as you can see on the screenshot firmware must be updated.
You questioned: "Do firrmware loader connect?" Yes, as you can see on 1st and 3rd pictures of my 1st post there's message Connection established..on the green background bottom of main firmware loader window. I can run any step excluding 4th
When i discovered mentioned error I did full straight cable 1-1...9-9 and result was the same.
I tried different options on WinXP and Win7. For example, I used my com cable , also I used usb-com(male) cable connected with my com cable. The results was identical.
But you say about Gnd to pin1. I should connect pin1 to connector housing both side or pin1 and pin5 both side? Maybe it would have effect.
Speaking about a single error in the log it appears when I short pins of supercapacitor inside controller for a 1 second. Of course I shutted power supply down before this trick. You can see it in the picture. It's green.
And yes I will check my cable in terminal.