Help a newbie to connect to a 1700 cisco router and reconfigure it

thanx for this forum. please assist me connect to an old 1700 Cisco router
i was given in my quest to embark on the Cisco journey. i have a win 7 PC
where i added hyper terminal from win xp. I also have made a rollover cable for the console port,
i have a rj45-to-db9 connector, a small LAN using two pc's.
the problem is , i cant telnet because of authentication issues( i don't have the password). so,
am trying to go the console way and changed one of my straight through cables to rollover
using the pinout given. when i run my hyper terminal with the set parameters, nothing happens
i cannot see the router come up in the window.

How can i see it so i can reset the password to start my labs?

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Monkerz

How are you connecting your router to your PC? Via a USB to serial adapter? What com settings are you using?

kembz1

BAUD 9600
DATA BITS 8
NO PARITY
1 STOP BIT
NO FLOW CONTROL

using rj45 to serial db9 to pc and my rollover cable to router console port.
thanx in advance

earweed

Monkerz wrote: »

How are you connecting your router to your PC? Via a USB to serial adapter? What com settings are you using?

+1 Check the documentation for the USB serial adapter to see what COM port it uses. Otherwise test your rollover cable to make sure that's not your problem.

You should also have to select the COM port for your adapter (usually Com 1 or Com 2 but mine used Com4 for some reason)

Ltat42a

Just wondering, if there is a password configured on the telnet (VTY) line, there's a good chance the console line has a password set also.
If so, you'll need to do a password recovery (I had to on a couple I bought off ebay). Here's a site for the 1700's
Password Recovery Procedure for the Cisco 1700 and 1800 Series Routers - Cisco Systems

Here's a link for a USB to Rs232 cable, shop around for a good price.
USB to DB9, DB25 RS-232 Serial Adapters: USB DB9 up to 4 ports or boost to 150 feet; also USB DB25 adapters - Cables To Go