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Old Jun 18, 2009 | 07:50 AM
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hm, it could be a bad unit, but I suspect with vista, like xp and 2k before it, usb stuff gone bad makes for a freaking mess to clean up. Try removing it in safe mode, its stupid I know, but back in the day we used to have to do that for all sorts of stupid little things to get them working.
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Old Jun 18, 2009 | 08:24 AM
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This works great with Vista/7 x64: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812107108
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Old Jun 18, 2009 | 09:43 AM
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no, normal mode: in vista I uninstalled the hardware via device mangler (manager) and it prompted to uninstall the drivers so I did. I reinstalled the new drivers for the new cable, plugged it in and it was redetected and setup. That's what I've done thus far but it still did exactly the same..no logworks/lm1 and 5 AFR in evoscan.
Stupid question but are you restarting your computer after you uninstall the drivers? Also this was happening to me and I went into device manager and uninstalled the device that way and then restarted the computer and it worked better that way.
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Old Jun 18, 2009 | 09:51 AM
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ok, uninstalled the driver in safe mode, rebooted, reinstalled and now lm1 programmer and logworks picked up the wb02! thanks for the tip. However, evoscan still logged it at 5 afr. I checked lm1 programmer and the fuel type was on "custom" beats me how it does that from time to time but it does. I reset it to gasoline and viola! it works again.
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Old Jun 18, 2009 | 09:56 AM
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Congrats Chris... I got tired of the Innovate having a mind of its own on occasion, mostly when I needed to use it the most and dumped it for an AEM... no problems since...
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Old Jun 18, 2009 | 10:01 AM
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I use keyspan.... Works great
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Old Jun 18, 2009 | 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Mellon Tuning
ok, uninstalled the driver in safe mode, rebooted, reinstalled and now lm1 programmer and logworks picked up the wb02! thanks for the tip. However, evoscan still logged it at 5 afr. I checked lm1 programmer and the fuel type was on "custom" beats me how it does that from time to time but it does. I reset it to gasoline and viola! it works again.
yes, welcome to the club of lc-1 randomness. I've gotten in the habit of just baselining it every time I go out to do serious tuning.
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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 05:14 AM
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anyone know where i can download a driver for a cable so it can work with vista ??
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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 07:22 AM
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i have gone through all of them, the best one is the radioshack $38 bucks cable.
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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 07:24 AM
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I had a customer bring a radio shack cable yesterday...it was poo. We searched for drivers newer than the supplied 2007 ones for vista and ran across a ton of horrible reviews and gave up lol.
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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 07:56 AM
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that best ones I have found are the FTDI based USB adapters. I sell them for $17 on my website www.limitless.co.nz/cables
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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Mellon Tuning
I had a customer bring a radio shack cable yesterday...it was poo. We searched for drivers newer than the supplied 2007 ones for vista and ran across a ton of horrible reviews and gave up lol.
i have always had good luck with the radioshack ones on XP.
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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 08:23 AM
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i have gone through all of them, the best one is the radioshack $38 bucks cable.
Radioshack cable was designed by a genius who made the low voltage susceptible to noise USB side 6 feet long and a good robust noise immune serial end 3 inch long. So depends how much electrical EMI noise is in your car the widget works well, flaky or does not work at all. Definitely not the USB adapter to buy.
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Old Jun 24, 2009 | 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Mellon Tuning
I had a customer bring a radio shack cable yesterday...it was poo. We searched for drivers newer than the supplied 2007 ones for vista and ran across a ton of horrible reviews and gave up lol.
Chris were u able to get drivers for vista???

i have gone thru 3 cables , and 1 girlfriend already cause it links to evoscan i can see afr s for 8 seconds then it freezes everytime

either i need a driver , a new cable , a new evo , or a new girlfriend
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Old Jun 24, 2009 | 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Mellon Tuning
I use a Dynex brand from Best Buy, at the time I purchased years ago it was 9 bucks. Now it's gone fancy and I think it's more like 40 bucks from what some customers have told me.
Same here i use the dynex for everything. No problems with vista or XP. It works with widebands, aem, etc.. The only thing mine hasnt worked with is DSMlink on the 1g dsm. On the 2Gs its not a problem
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