Getting weird characters in hyper-terminal on serial connection of PC and Atmega-16

Question

I have a Atmega-16 based board, connected via Max232 to pins 2,3,5 of a db-9 connector. The connector connects to a PC. I am getting weird characters on hyper-terminal instead of normal "Hello World" for the serial test program. I have set both baud rate in Atmega-16 as well as hyper terminal to be 4800. I am not getting any faults. Please help. Thank you!

Edit: I am using this kit : http://roboshop.nextsapiens.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=55 The Serial pins of the Atmega16 are routed through a max232 to db-9, the circuit is same as this one:

The settings on terminal are:

Data bits: 8
Stop bits: 1
Parity: none
Baud rate: 4800

The bascom code is:

$regfile = "m16def.dat"
$crystal = 2000000
$baud = 9600
Config Lcd = 16 * 2
Config Lcdpin = Pin

Cls

Cursor Off

Dim A As String * 1
Do
  A = Waitkey()
  Print A
  Cls
  Lcd A
Loop

End

The problem can further be viewed as: https://i.stack.imgur.com/dmnJo.png

The images showing the characters(10) i am receiving are:

and the corresponding hex code that i am reciving is:

Answer 1

Check the baud rate on the hyper terminal or the oscillator settings.

Answer 2

It is relatively unlikely that the 2 MHz clock frequency given in your code is appropriate. More likely candidates would be 12 or 16 MHz, or even 8 MHz.

If you cannot determine the actual crystal frequency, you could "measure" it by figuring out the number of bit periods per byte of transmitted data (iirc 10, but check that) and diving your chosen baud rate by that to find the number of bytes per second. Multiply that by say 5 and write a for loop to turn on an LED, send that many bytes, then turn it off. Time how long it takes.