software and other diagnostic related questions

[Rebellious]

I use ELM327 and KWP2000.

It's the FTDI drivers that power both interfaces though, I'm fairly sure.

I could provide the drivers I have used to see if they help, but I use XP on my laptop, so the drivers probably won't work in Win7 natively.
Perhaps running in compatibility mode for XP from Win7 will make it work? Not sure though...

Dual boot might be an option too?!

Really, tuners and tuner co's should start writing all their kit for Linux, perhaps a pared down installation. There really is no need to have a whole bloated OS like Win7 running on a laptop that is there merely to run software to essentially provide a 512kb (in our case) file to a little device

Cheers

Dave

Thanks dave, il be intouch about them drivers then, (i do have an ftdi driver interface thingy installed and it recognizes the cable coms port but wont communicate beyond), im currently on with sourcing another laptop anyway, ran duelboot on my laptop previous to this one, it never quite ran right after that but it was a vista clone with an xp clone

big thanks for your help