Laptop....
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Safety Car
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From: Sandhills of North Carolina
Laptop....
I'm looking for a used one locally. Are there any special OS (XP, 98, Amount of memory, hard drive space, etc, etc) requirements needed to use it on my vette for scans. I know I need software but I am talking about the laptop itself.
Thanks,
Weav
Thanks,
Weav
Instructor
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From: Bridgewater Ma.
I recently bought mine on ebay from CSR Technologies. Dell, D610, Pentium M, 512 mb ram, built in wireless. I paid under $300 shipped.
I did have a prob. with the power supply. Called CSR cust. service, sent me a replacement, had it in 3 days, other wise it has been great.
I bought mine for the same purpose as you. Funny thing is, I use it more than my desktop. Hell, I'm using it right now!
I downloaded Datamaster for free, just waiting on my cable to do some logging.
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Safety Car
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From: Sandhills of North Carolina
Not to sure on the minimum requirements, if you search this section I'm sure you can find the answers.
I recently bought mine on ebay from CSR Technologies. Dell, D610, Pentium M, 512 mb ram, built in wireless. I paid under $300 shipped.
I did have a prob. with the power supply. Called CSR cust. service, sent me a replacement, had it in 3 days, other wise it has been great.
I bought mine for the same purpose as you. Funny thing is, I use it more than my desktop. Hell, I'm using it right now!
I downloaded Datamaster for free, just waiting on my cable to do some logging.
I recently bought mine on ebay from CSR Technologies. Dell, D610, Pentium M, 512 mb ram, built in wireless. I paid under $300 shipped.
I did have a prob. with the power supply. Called CSR cust. service, sent me a replacement, had it in 3 days, other wise it has been great.
I bought mine for the same purpose as you. Funny thing is, I use it more than my desktop. Hell, I'm using it right now!
I downloaded Datamaster for free, just waiting on my cable to do some logging.
I'll check them out. I'll also do some searching.
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Safety Car
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From: Sandhills of North Carolina
I just looked at CSR Technologies. They have um don't they! Got a bid on a Dell that ends today. I'll see what happens! I'm sure it will do the job just fine!
Thanks Again EastCoast!
Weav
Thanks Again EastCoast!
Weav
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From: O'Fallon Missouri
At the time I bought my ALDL cable ~6 years ago they weren't available in USB. I was trying to use a USB to Serial adapter. Hopefully, with the new USB cables you will have an easier time connecting.
Instructor
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From: Bridgewater Ma.
Tried it out today, worked fine, no probs.
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Safety Car
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From: Sandhills of North Carolina
I did actually. I got one just like this one, Click. It should be more than enough to do what I want. It will be here this afternoon. Thanks again for the tip! I believe I'm going with this software. I think it has the most features for the money. With the enhanced parameters it's going to run around 400.00.
Weav
Weav
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Drifting
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I did actually. I got one just like this one, Click. It should be more than enough to do what I want. It will be here this afternoon. Thanks again for the tip! I believe I'm going with this software. I think it has the most features for the money. With the enhanced parameters it's going to run around 400.00.
Weav
Weav
What software? I could not get the link to work.
I'm in the middle of doing the same thing you are and have noticed that for ODBII you need one program to read the diagnostics and another to change. Are you experiencing the same thing?
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From: Bridgewater Ma.
I did actually. I got one just like this one, Click. It should be more than enough to do what I want. It will be here this afternoon. Thanks again for the tip! I believe I'm going with this software. I think it has the most features for the money. With the enhanced parameters it's going to run around 400.00.
Weav
Weav
The link you posted for the software no worky!
I'm using Datamaster, free trial, can use it 20x before requiring the full version. Check it out here ... http://www.ttspowersystems.com/DataM...downloads.html
I'm also using a USB cable from these guys ... http://www.aldlcable.com/
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Safety Car
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Yes I have noticed that. I have a performance tune already so unless I decide to do more in depth mods it will be fine for now. That's kind of over my head anyway.:o
I'm using Data master, free trial, can use it 20x before requiring the full version. Check it out here ... http://www.ttspowersystems.com/DataM...downloads.html
I'm also using a USB cable from these guys ... http://www.aldlcable.com/[/quote]
Data Master only goes up to '95 I believe. Mine is a '96.
Drifting
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From: Jefferson City MO
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Safety Car
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From: Trenton Ga
i run xp on a toshiba s25, i use a cable from moates into a usb 2.0 port. i run tuner cat and data master tts no problems and sometimes i use free scan still no problems i have tuned more then one car with this