I had my friend bring over his laptop one time to help me load up a tune from madz28.com. The only problem was the ony thing my cable would hook up too is my old school HP desktop...his laptop did not have a port for the cable...this is not an AKM cable but from another company that I was referred to. Cable works great but like I said only worked on my old desktop or any other desktop. Any ideas on if I can hook a connector of some sort up to it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Is it a usb cable? And has it asked you to install a sort of a driver, cause if it has, I found I had to install the driver for it to connect. And you have an obd1 right? Are you using his C.A.T.S program?

 

Since you said it would only work with an old desktop I am assuming it has serial DB9 ports. And most newer Laptops do not. A possible solution is to use an RS-232 to USB convertor, I just bought one on Ebay for cheap. It should be here this weekend, and I can report how well it works with Datamaster and Tunercats.

Good luck

 

cool..yes please let me know if that works for you.

 

A PCMCIA card would probably work as well.
Probably more stable for most software out there but not sure how easy it is to find one with a serial port on it now.

 

PCMCIA card is the way to go.
It will work with all our programs
and provides a true com port.
The USB adapters work with some programs but not others.
They're easy to find on ebay and have come down in price
since I bought one for 50.00 plus shipping.
And in the last 6 months even desktops don't come with com ports anymore.

http://cgi.ebay.com/RS232-Serial-Por...QQcmdZViewItem

 

thanks guy but since i am running low on the finance area looks like im going to have to drank my desktop to the garage again to do this. Thanks for all the help.

 

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