how come no one has made a PC program that mimics a tech2?
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Ahh, but Vetronix who makes the TECH2 for the GM dealers has that covered. The PCMCIA card that you are talking about that stores the data in the TECH2 is not your average everyday PCMCIA memory card. It is a proprietary designed card specifically for the TECH2. There are now two versions of the TECH2 one is the 10mb version and the other is a 32mb version. I tried accessing one of the 10mb cards and my new Dell laptop would not recognize it at all.
The 32mb TECH2 can read and use the 10mb card but the 10mb version cannot use the 32mb card. My buddys dealership tried upgrading their older 10mb version TECH2 by just buying a 32mb card and inserting it into the memory slot. Both the card and the TECH2 died. It cost them $300 to get the TECH2 repaired and luckily they got the 32mb card replaced under warranty.
The software you are refering to is called TIS 2000, there are a couple difference variants of TIS. One is done via GMs INTRANET server which has a dedicated link direct to GM, the dealers PC has a static IP address that GM identifys to the dealer and this is how they are connected. All updates and GM calibrations are automatically download to the dealership.
The second version is known as a stand-alone version. This means that the TIS software that resides in a stand alone PC has to be updated manually. This allows any snapshots recorded by the TECH2 during a test drive or dyno run to be downloaded and viewed on a PC. All calibraions, and TECH2 updates are updated by either downloading a update file from GM or via CD Rom.
A third version is what independant repair shops get. It can be had as just a Service Programming System (GM SPS) under a licensing agreement with GM where the shop pays an annual subscription fee of about $700 to have their calibrations sent to them via CD ROM. There are a couple options available for the SPS system, one allows only PCM flash programming, another that allows programming of all other GM programmable devices such as BCMs, VCMs, SIR Modules, Radio programming, dash programming and more.
Then if the independand shop wants the rest of the software he also gets datalogging download capabilities added to the TIS software, also TECH2 updates are added as well. The cost of this software from Vetronix is an astronimical $3000 which includs a hardware key to perform programming of PCMs.
But if you know someone at a GM dealer and can get your hands on a copy of TIS 2000 version 3.4 that is the way to get it. I was fortunate to have friends within GM, thats how I was able to get a GM TECH2 direct from GM tools at a considerable savings over buying direct from Vetronix. The cost difference was about $1300 but it came without any software, a quick trip to the dealer and within 10 minutes my new TECH2 was fully functional
The 32mb TECH2 can read and use the 10mb card but the 10mb version cannot use the 32mb card. My buddys dealership tried upgrading their older 10mb version TECH2 by just buying a 32mb card and inserting it into the memory slot. Both the card and the TECH2 died. It cost them $300 to get the TECH2 repaired and luckily they got the 32mb card replaced under warranty.
The software you are refering to is called TIS 2000, there are a couple difference variants of TIS. One is done via GMs INTRANET server which has a dedicated link direct to GM, the dealers PC has a static IP address that GM identifys to the dealer and this is how they are connected. All updates and GM calibrations are automatically download to the dealership.
The second version is known as a stand-alone version. This means that the TIS software that resides in a stand alone PC has to be updated manually. This allows any snapshots recorded by the TECH2 during a test drive or dyno run to be downloaded and viewed on a PC. All calibraions, and TECH2 updates are updated by either downloading a update file from GM or via CD Rom.
A third version is what independant repair shops get. It can be had as just a Service Programming System (GM SPS) under a licensing agreement with GM where the shop pays an annual subscription fee of about $700 to have their calibrations sent to them via CD ROM. There are a couple options available for the SPS system, one allows only PCM flash programming, another that allows programming of all other GM programmable devices such as BCMs, VCMs, SIR Modules, Radio programming, dash programming and more.
Then if the independand shop wants the rest of the software he also gets datalogging download capabilities added to the TIS software, also TECH2 updates are added as well. The cost of this software from Vetronix is an astronimical $3000 which includs a hardware key to perform programming of PCMs.
But if you know someone at a GM dealer and can get your hands on a copy of TIS 2000 version 3.4 that is the way to get it. I was fortunate to have friends within GM, thats how I was able to get a GM TECH2 direct from GM tools at a considerable savings over buying direct from Vetronix. The cost difference was about $1300 but it came without any software, a quick trip to the dealer and within 10 minutes my new TECH2 was fully functional
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