V240 over serial in ALOM Port

I have a V240 (2x1.5ghz) and I am trying to connect to it using the hyper terminal on Windows XP, but all I get is unrecognizable characters. I have my port set to COM 1 ( using a Cisco crossover cable), 9600-8-N-1 , and it connects, but the just spits out gibberish.

[274 byte] By [gerald.dardena] at [2007-11-27 10:45:15]