I bought a new laptop a few days ago with Vista, so I installed EcuFlash and EvoScan. EcuFlash works fine and I can flash my ecu with no problems. EvoScan however won't start logging my runs. All of my settings are exactly the same as my previous borrowed laptop, in terms of the baudrate, etc. I'm getting this error:

Info: Initializing At 5 baud...
Info: Initialization Complete...
Info: Waiting for INIT Response...
Info: Connection successful...
Error: Invalid Evaluation Expression in your Data.xml file or invalid data received.

Does anyone know what that means, or can you give me suggestions on how to fix it? Thanks.

 

I would re install evoscan. It sounds like something in the xml got mixed up

 

Apparently, the software doesn't like trial versions of Microsoft Office 2007 that comes pre-installed. I had to install my own legitimate copy of it and then it worked.

 

That seems kinda odd that uninstalling/installing Office should cause this error...the two should have nothing to do with each other.

 

Doesn't EvoScan need access with excel in order to work?

 

I don't think it depends on Excel in any manner really. It just happens to write .csv files which are commonly read with Excel. Many applications can read and write .csv files.

 

Interesting...all I know is that it worked after I uninstalled the trial versions and then reinstalled my real version. That's all I did and EvoScan worked again.

 

Fair enough. But yeah as TB says Evoscan doesn't need Excel to work.

 

guys please help i got the same error

Invalid Evaluation Expression in your Data.xml file or invalid data received.

what can cause this?

 

What are your regional settings set to? I'm guessing Greek based on location. If you change them to English does it work then?

 

Are you talking about windows regional settings or evoscan settings? its probably greek if you mean windows. thanks man i will try that

 

Maybe office installs some sort of XML parser? Just a guess.

 

Windows Regional settings.

 

The one used by windows (MSXML6) will trump all in this particular scenario. I don't know why it did happen in the above scenario, its weird but I am about 99% sure (the 1% is the tester in me) that is has nothing to do with Office.

 

try Start-Settings-Control Panel-Regional & Language settings- Customize- Change decimal symbol from (,) coma to (.) dot