bravo29....you could be correct....i have seen some people claim that they have GDS & TECH2WIN both working on a 64bit windows 10 laptop.......and after some more searching i did find two different articles where guys were trying to get it working on surface pro's with no luck.....the tech2win part....now i can get gds tp run on the surface just fine but not the tech2win....which is really the only thing i'm looking for

 

Once you have installed VX nano, and have made dam sure that defender or what every virus program you have installed, is not blocking the VX manager install.

click on the window button top right, or bottom left (how every you have the task bar set up, and type in device manger into search, then click on device manager in the list to pull up device manager in windows. Now go down the list and your looking for ports (com &lpt). If you have something else in the list of items that has a ? mark on it, then your virus program blocked the correct install of VX manager and you will need to go into that program to allow VX manager to load correctly.

If you have ports, then check to make sure that the USB device is on Com 3. If on another com, then click on the device in the list. click on the top port setting tabs, click on advance, and change the device to port #3, the click ok to change it to port 3.

Now go back into VX manager, click on config, and change connection type to USB (nano). VX manger will restart it self, and now should be showing the Nano connected in VX manager. Now click on the firmware Icon to update it, then on liscence to update that.

At this point, leave the Nano connected, VX manager open in windows, and install Tech2win, while making sure that your virus program is not blocking it install as well.
Note here, the virus program may have given you are warning that it was being blocked the first time around, and when you go to reinstall it again, it's already ready blocked, so will need to check in them for the block lists, than you will need to allow then to install on retries of installing the software.

Once tech2 win has been installed, then go back into VX manager, click on the top diag tab, and install passthru, GM GDS2/t2w, and SGM RDS.
Note until you have installed Tech2win, will not be able to install these last three.

Trust me, it not a window 10 or 11 32 or 64 bit thing, but the surface pro 5 has a virus program that is blocking the installed of the needed program instead.

 

dano......well...i have tried this multiple times with the surface it it just will not see the nano in tech2win.....everything else...no problem

i even dug up a 2nd laptop with windows 10 64bit and got it to load right up on that one too....i really just wanted to surface cause it's a lot smaller than either of the laptops .....i'll keep trying to get it to work!!!

 

Is the surface giving you the pop up menu's, before Tech 2 win blue screen loads?

Look for "C:\Program Files (x86)\General Motors\Tech2Win\bin\T2Configurator.exe, and double click T2Configurator.exe to see if it loads the pop up meme's.

If you are getting the pop ups, have selected the correct items before Tech2win blue screen loads, then driver config problem that should be easy to figure out in windows device manager to solve the problem.

 

dano.....those 2 screens never come up....not the "mdi" screen nor the "passthrough" screen.....neither screen comes up when i launch tech2win.....it's like tech2win never see's it to laod those screens.....now i can go into vx manager and go to passthrough and gm/tds both and load the drivers...all that goes smooth and arrears to work....then i go and try to load tech2win and it never prompts me for either screen

 

With nano license and firmware updated, and VX manager left open with nano still attached, re install Tech2 win from the disc.


Now go to the link location that I pointed out, go to the top of the folder to find emulator.exe , double click on it, and tell what error your getting when it tries to load, after you have done the first part above. Hence was a real problem way back, since directions would tell you to unplug the nano and close VX manger before installing Tech2 win in Win 10 and above.

Also, double check every anti virus program you have on the machine, since will banking that one of them was blocking an install of one of the programs as well. Again, most people will miss this pop up from the anti virus program on the first install, that did not allow the program to fully load, and since the virus program has it blocked from that point onward, may not get another pop up on an addition install of the program later times.

 

dano....went through what you suggested above ....when i go into the "program files x86....when i hit that to execute the tech2win software will start....but no pop up's ...t just loads like it always has

the second suggestion when i go and reinstall the tech2win from the disc and do what you said above i get error code E668150 tech2win is exiting with an error code (parsing of program arguments failed)

 

This is double clicking on emulator.exe, to load the pop ups to start with?

If yes, then either tech2win did not over write the correct files in vx manager during its install with VX manager open/nano connected, or VX manager did not isntall correctly to begin with (anti virus on the laptop blocking some of the installs).

So on that note, would go into windows uninstall to delete all the programs for the Nano/TDS, go into Virus programs to make sure they are not blocking one of the programs installs, and start fresh on the re-installs.

 

yes i double click on the emulator.exe....it does not load any pop up's

 

dano....been a rainy day here and i've been messing with this surface for hours....all ends the same....no pop up's....no tech2win
i'll ship it to you if you willing to give it a try...

 

Just make sure to pull all the data you need off the machine, since it may come down to me just installing windows fresh on the machine if it loaded with bloatware that is causing problems, and just faster to solve the problem that way,then to uninstall apps one at a time with reg cleans along the way. Also Frees up the HD if it partioned to hell as well.

If you want to see what is loaded on the machine, install CC cleaner and then go into tools in CC to get a full list of whats loaded for software on the machine. I'm going to bank that you find a virus programs that you did not know where loaded, and it's blocking the installs of the needed Nano programs. Hence just turning off defender, would not solve the install program if its another virus program that is blocking the installs in the first place.

 

I have a 98 convertible and a 01 cluster, so now I can’t read out the airbag codes because the 98 SRS control module uses a separate custom OBD2 pin (pin 9) to put out diagnostic data, instead of the shared bus, and only the old cluster was able to read that. I had the vx nano and successfully installed the tech2win on a windows 10 pro, worked fine except the body supplementary inflation restraint item still showed no comm.

I’m starting to wonder if the real tech2 even has that readout, I thought the vx was pretty much a full fledged copy.

 

Yes, full copy in regards to Tech2win, just cracked so you don't have to get the subscription threw GM.


As for the 01 cluster in the 98, should have flashed in fine with TIS2000 SPS to start with to the car, short of changing the mileage on the cluster, which will take a VCI file download to do that. If not sps flashed yet, will not be sharing the correct BCM vin secuirty number, and why you may have the problem.

As for SRS, have taken a look at the schematics for the different years to see if an addition wire need to be run?

C5 diagrams,
http://www.tuningconcepts.com/Cars/C...2%20WIRING.pdf

 

Shows the 98 SDM bus is distinct from the common serial bus.
How on earth the 98 cluster is supposed to read it is beyond me because I don’t see it having any serial input other than the same A11 pin as in the 2002 diagram, according to my 98 preliminary shop manual.
But if it was a cluster programming issue, then I wouldn’t be getting the exact same no communication to SDM message as on the vx tech2win, unless the tech2 cannot read the early SDM either, ie it doesn’t read pin 9 of obd2.
Finally, is the SDM dead maybe? I did the whole diagnosis proc and it didn’t tell me to replace the SDM. I got a 4V voltage on the dlc bus pin 9. Also I plugged in a replacement SDM unit to see, no difference. The airbag light went on ever since I replaced the steering wheel clock spring, which supposedly triggers a code in the SDM that has to be cleared.

can I just connect the two wires, pin 2 and 9 on the obd, to manually add the SDM to the common bus? If I recall serial bus is supposed to handle message collision

 

Help! Why am I receiving this message?
Attempting to turn the F55 shocks to the OFF setting

Maybe I'm in the wrong mode but...I pressed/ held the ACC for 10 seconds; Car powered on without the engine starting.
Am I doing something wrong?

Vehicle: 2005 Corvette
OS: Windows 10 64 bit
Connection: USB Cable

 

classof05,
Send me a PM (click on my name) with phone number and will give you a call to talk you through the problem/solution.
My guess, did not set up vx manager and its apps correctly to start with, or not selecting the correct items in the 3 pop up screens after you click on the tech2win icons, before you get to the Tech2 win screen.

Hence first pop up, north america,
Second pop up, MDI 1
third, USB device listed in it.


Short of that, and everything is right,
the only other thing that comes to mind, is locked aftermarket tune, and that is a nasty road to go down, if don't know who the tuner is, to get them to unlock it so factory tech2 can hand shake with the car.

 

Thanks for reaching out, Dano!
I was able to get it to connect to the vehicle this time around.
1. Placed the car in ON position
2. Plugged the VXDiag up to the laptop/car
3. Ran both programs: VX and Tech2
Was able to turn the Real Time Dampening OFF:

 

Hi,
I´m having the same exact problem on my Surface Pro 5. Did you ever find a solution to this?

Kind regards,
Fredrik

 

Good luck on trying to get the Nano to work with a surface pro.
\One of the lads sent me his laptop to try to get it working, and after hours of trying every crack/trick, could still not get the nano software to work correctly on the machine.

 

Hey, has anyone managed to run tech2win on a Surface Pro? Is it better to look for other hardware for this?