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ESP 8266 -07 connected to Bray Terminal on Win 7 PC
I am using a custom baud rate of 76800, 8,N,1 (all others produce garbage)
electrical connections to ESP are 3.3V, common ground, Tx, Rx, CH_PD to Vcc (regulated P/S rated 1A)
If I break and make the CH_PD connection, I get the following:
ets Jan 8 2013,rst cause:1 , boot mode:(7,7)
waiting for host
However, the chip Rx appears to be deaf and does not respond to any AT commands at any baud rate. I get same results using second ESP with same hook up. If I ground GPIO15 and I break and make the CH_PD connection I get :

ets Jan 8 2013,rst cause:1, boot mode:(3,6)

load 0x40100000, len 25052, room 16
tail 12
chksum 0x0b
ho 0 tail 12 room 4
load 0x3ffe8000, len 3312, room 12
tail 4
chksum 0x53
load 0x3ffe8cf0, len 6576, room 4
tail 12
chksum 0x0d
csum 0x0d
€€<00><00>€<00>€€€€<00>€€€€€<00>€<00>€€<00><00>€€€€<00><00>€<00>€<00>€€€€€€€€€<00>€<00>€<00>€€<00>€€€€€<00><00>€€<00>€€€<00>€€<00>€€€€€€€€<00>€<00><00>€<00>€<00>€<00>€€€€€€€€<00><00><00>€€€€€<00>€<00><00>€€<00>€€<00>€€€€€<00>€€<00>€<00><00><00><00>€<00>€<00><00><00>€<00><00><00><00><00>€<00><00>€<00>€€€€€€<00><00>€<00>€€<00><00>€<00><00><00>€€€<00>€€<00>€<00><00>€€<00>€€€<00><00>€<00>

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

try to use different baudrate. that garbage in your post could be readable at different baud.

You are correct SoC. The 9600 baud rate works only when GPIO15 is grounded (which it was not when I was testing various baud rates).
Summary of what worked for me:
GPIO pin 15 must be grounded, CH_PD must be tied to Vcc. Baud rate 9600,8,N,1.
In addition there was some weirdness using Bray terminal. I had to use the macro window to send AT+RST$0D$0A.
AT+RST#013#010 and sending in the transmit window did NOT work.