This is on my Sony Vaio laptop. With XP.

I have had a little luck or at least progress with one USB-->Serial cable.
http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc=product&Item=GUC232A

At Walmart for $23.

It lets you go to system and hardware manager and assign it a comm port. So, now when you open the haltech software it does not give you the comm 1 error. Now, when I try to go online with the Haltech it was loading super slow. Like, loading the haltech might take five minutes. However, it is closer than I have ever been. But then it just breaks the connection.

Any idea why it is so slow and breaks the connection? I tried running the same situation with Dosbox and it didnt even smell the haltech.

James

 

I'm not sure about the answer, but I'm about to do EXACTLY this on mine.

 

check and see if there is a timeout setting.

 

I couldn't get that to work with a friends E6K but that is how I access my E11v2. As far as not seeing it in DOS, that is due to the fact that DOS doesn't have USB support.

 

That is the the thing...I COULD get it to see it in dos. It reported the version/firmware numbers and started loading the Haltech then it stopped....

James

 

they key with converters is to make shure their are set up as the com port your ECU reads.

 

I used that connector allot (not for ECU stuff but cellphones) and it doesn't work with all things (computers or periphials) Do you have access to a laptop with a serial port? Sometimes that is what it takes to access certain serial periphials.

 

Snowball - Yeah, I did - Set it to Comm one in system

DSCSK8er55 - I do now http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...e=STRK:MEWA:IT

James

 

AWESOME!!! Good choice. When I was working with cell phones, the only computers that worked all the time were the older laptops. Good luck james!!!

 

I had similar problems when trying to use the Belkin adapter with e6x/halwinX. It would load firwmware to 99% then stay there forever. Never would it say "Haltech connected"

Turns out drivers for this particular one are very poor. Switched to a radio shack one and it works flawlessly.

 

Hummmm intresting...