I have had 3 tuning laptops in the past 2 years. I have had it with laptop problems so I bought a solid state drive and 8g of ddr3 to hopefully cure my laptop of its instant go to work headaches.

What are some tips to keep your tuning computer running well? is there certain methods to maintaining such device? I have not been pleased once with the performance after a windows update, so I disabled that.

It seems that opensource stuff gives microsoft fits like no other. Any software/hardware/settings/changes you make when you decide to use a laptop for tuning?

 

Currently I am using Dell netbook with Windows 7. 1.6GHz and 2GB RAM. Performance is superb, although I have changed hard disk already, I don't know if it was coincidence or it is vibrations related, but my next laptop will be with SSD. As well I am considering laptop vs. tablet, I am not sure if it would be easy to change map values without physical keyboard, on the other hand tablet would be much comfortable to hold while driving.
I believe, that the best option is cheap and durable (with SSD) PC with Windows 7 (to use latest ecuflash and evoscan) dedicated only for tuning. When you install/mess with different software on windows platform, performance suffers - this is my personal opinion. If it would be possible I would use Android only, my second option would be Linux based OS (Ubuntu).

 

I'm thinking about installing and tuning an intake myself so I'm about ready to jump in to this discussion.

 

Nothing special in my case... I use my 4 (i think) year old Acer Aspire running Win 7. Never had any performance trouble. IMO people are overthinking this; logging isn't very resource-intensive.

 

I agree! Even OP 2.0 with it's 72Mhz 32-bit processor is capable doing that. But I have to admit, that I prefer fast booting machines, it can be crucial, if you you want to make a quick reflash between runs at drag strip, or in any other situation, who likes waiting 5 minutes until PC boots up...

 

I have had a plethora of stability issues on both win 7 and vista. explicitly happening with either ecu flash and evoscan running and only while flashing or logging.

performance of the hardware isnt really my issue. Usually seems to be a software quirk.

Im on 1.42 ecu flash cause the latest 1.43 has a 3d display issue in a thread i started below. evoscan 2.7 cause I had problems with 2.9

 

What model/specifications you are using currently? What were stability issues you are talking about?

 

toshiba c655d-s5511, constantly crashes during a reflash or logging operation.

I just replaced and reinstalled a win7 ultimate upgraded from the OE home prem + the 8 gig ddr3 of ram up from OE 4.

I tried to minimalize all the windows add ons which this ultimate version has none.

 

Have you tried any performance tests? Are there any BIOS updates?

 

I have the same laptop and have had it for about the same amount of time as you but I'm on XP not 7 and I haven't had any problems with it at all.

If your wanting to hurry up and reflash in between passes at the track then why don't you just put it in sleep instead of shutting it off? Or just do like I do and leave it on. Your talking maybe 2-3 minutes tops from pulling up to the water box to coming back around and parking safely to make adjustments.

 

Sleep is your friend

 

No, it's not unfortunately:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ls/+bug/640066
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/28386827
Anyway I don't need sleep, because it boots really fast as I said before.

 

I must just have terrible luck with this stuff.

Noone else has ever seen an irql error ?

precisely my point in getting a SSD/Ram upgrade

it boots and settles fast!

 

If you have patience and extra time, you may try debug those crashes:
http://www.sevenforums.com/crash-loc...n-crashes.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...tructions.html

 

I hope this install goes well. However the damned error flashes so fast that I cant predict it and get my phone ready to take a picture in time!