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Cant get my laptop to talk to my car ecm

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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 10:44 AM
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Cant get my laptop to talk to my car ecm

I have just now got my project up and running from a 4+ year downtime and no I cant get my laptop toe communicate with my ECM.

I did change laptops in that time span but I have all of the original programs and such.

My new laptop doesnt have a serial connector so I had to buy a USB-Serial adapter. I thought that might be the problem but it works on everything else I have tried that used a serial connection.

Any ideas? It is a laptop running windows 7 if that matters.

The car is a 95 TA so it has the obd1 computer and obd2 connector. The cable i have worked without a problem years ago and is still in great shape.

Thanks

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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 09:55 AM
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Re: Cant get my laptop to talk to my car ecm

What software are you trying to run.. If TunerCat search on 'Tunercat Windows 7' and it will detail installation requirements W-7 in the FAq section.
Old Feb 15, 2012 | 11:17 AM
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Re: Cant get my laptop to talk to my car ecm

Just trying to use Freedman to check my codes right now. Going to be using tuner cat to redo my programming tho so I will look into that.
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