I'm not sure if this belongs in bugs, or just general....
What I have is a not so small problem.
I had TP RT installed on a borrowed laptop, running fine, for the most part anyway. I would get some connection issues, but they would be few and far between. I thought that maybe it was my home made ALDL cable, so I decided to buy Moates' ALDL Extreme, I wanted one anyway, but would have rather waited until I could have spared the money, moreso than now. Back to my problem. I have not been able to connect with my home made cable about the last 8 times I've tried, maybe more. I just received my Moates cable last week and tried it for the first time tonight, still no connection, not even a hint that it was trying.
Cable is found and "functional" on the ALDL preference page, through use of the cable verify option. I had also, previous to tonight tried WinALDL, with the same result, no connection. I tried a completly different vehicle with the same ECM, still no connection.
Well I had my laptop that I had originally bought for tuning specifically with me, and decided on a whim to try connecting with it and the ALDL Extreme cable, and wouldn't ohappen to know it connects, right off the bat. So I decided to try my home made cable, with a serial to USB converter (my serial port doesn't work for some reason), and it connects too.
Both TP RT installs came from the same disc. I tried un-installing and re-installing TP RT twice tonight, and that didn't help.
Has any one come accross this and found a fix for it? I'm just afraid the same thing will happen with my laptop that does connect now, and won't be able to fix it.
Laptop specs:
Both IBM
One that doesn't connect:
PIII 400 or so
256 RAM I believe.
Windoze XP
Also has a lot of other programs and such, since the owner uses it for many different uses.
One that does connect:
PII 300
128 RAM
Windoze 98SE
Not many programs, it has a small HDD (4 GB). This laptop was meant to be used strictly for tuning, but didn't seem to be stable enough TP RT would freeze every now and then and the big reason to use the other laptop was that the serial port doesn't work on this one.
I am looking for another laptop, so that I can give the borrowed one back soon, and hopefully have what I want. I'd really like one with 2 or 3 USB ports, and one serial port. Both of the laptops I have now only have a single USB port, so I need to run an USB hub to connect more than one device.
Datalogging...
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