Since I have been having this recent delemma with my old laptop, and the constant serial to USB problems that arise here and on other boards when laptops dont have a serial port, could everyone post what they use and what is working for them? Even if you dont have an adapter, please post your computer brand and speed, cable type (USB,serial and store bought/home made) -including the brand of adapter if using one, operating system and tuning software your running.

I think this could benefit anyone in the future who bothers to search for what works and what doesnt. Thanks

**Toshiba 430CDT 120mhz 16mb with a serial port to homemade cable using Tunerpro 4.0.

 

Toshiba Satellite 100CS - Pentium 75MHz, 24Mb ram, Windows 95, built in serial port

Works with TunerPro 4.00 for $8D aldl logging.

 

I use an Acer travelmate 2300 w/ Moates hardware and usb cables, but i am having a problem getting it to log for longer than 15 or 20 minutes. other than that it works ok.

 

i have a new dell inspiron 6000 p4 2ghz 1gb ram, moates usb aldl cable, ostrich, and an lc1 with a generic usb - serial adapter off ebay, no problems with anything.

 

Dell Inspiron = Old and like a Pentium II.(one serial and one USB port)

Use a serial and USB depending on the who/what/where

Mostly use TunerCat and Datamanster, but sometimes use TunerPro as well.

Use a Radiosmack USB adapter for the Romulator and no issues.

Other datalogging stuff is a Mabach(?) cable and I dont even remember what the other one is.

later
JEremy

 

Sager Laptop, PIII @ 800 Mhz, 128 Mb ram, serial port & USB. Win98SE
Running AutoProm USB along with Serial logging on Comm 1 for other apps.
No problems once the setup is correct for the devices. USB always plays games until you get it set to be a specific comm #. 98 is not that smart
Also use a simple transistor cable to log my LG-4 with the serial as well.
Never finished making the LG4 XDF work in TP though (someday when it breaks again)
Jp

 

I run two machines, on and off, both thinkpads:

a 600E, 366Mhz, PII, running win 98. moates 8.52

a T21, 700Mhz(I think) PIII, running winxp, tunerpro, moates, and freescan (LT1).

I also had a 390E, very slow, not used for much right now. ran win98 and moates.

all of them use my version of a serial to ALDL adapter, custom PCB, mimics the design of andrew mattei or carston myers, etc, max 233 and extra diodes for 94-95 LT1 aldl interface.

works well overall. I notice in alot of cases the datalogging and connection is somewhat flaky, tuning on 87 IROC, '165 ecm at 8192, which is known to be difficult at times.

freescan on 1995 '8051 ecm seems stable. Not much tuning other than some statistics yet.

 

Machine 1)

IBM Thinkpad 760ELD
100 MHz Pentium
48MB RAM
Windows 98 SE
Serial support
Parallel support
No USB

Andrew Mattei Serial ALDL interface and AutoProm serial work great

Machine 2)

IBM Thinkpad T21
700 MHz
256MB RAM
Windows XP SP2
Serial support
USB support
Parallel support

All interface hardware runs great

Marchine 3)

Dell Inspiron 9300
XP SP2
2.2 GHz P4
512MB RAM
No serial port
USB support
No parallel support

All interface hardware runs great

Machine 4)

Panasonic Toughbook (w/ touch screen)
400Mhz
(Don't remember RAM size)
Windows 98SE/XP dual boot
Serial support
USB support
Parallel support

All interface hardware runs great in both OS installations

Machine 5)

Home brew
Window XP
AMD X2 2.2Ghz dual proc
2GB RAM
nForce 4 SLI Mobo
Serial support
USB support
Parallel support

All interface hardware I own works great on this machine.


Hardware I own (all run perfectly on every machine with supported port):

Pocket Programmer II
Romulator I (x 2)
Flash n' Burn
Ostrich
AutoProm serial
AutoProm USB
AutoProm Bluetooth
ALDU1 USB ALDL interface
Andrew Mattei serial ALDL interface
Prominator Pro
DIY WB02
TechEdge WB02

 

Dang, Mark, got enough gear there? LOL

I'm using a Del Inspiration
(1.4GHz, 512 RAM, serial and USB ports, no adapters required)
Mastech (eBay vendor) serial cable for datalogging
Ostrich for emulating on the USB port
I use both TunerPro RT and occasionally (not for a while) Datamaster for logging
Primarily use TunerPro RT for BIN changes since I'm beta for S_AUJP v4, used to use TunerCat

 

Thanks for posting. I hope this helps people figure out options and connectivity in the future.

 

I am using a older Compaq Presario PIII 800 mhz with 512k mem and WinXP Pro. I use the Radio Shack Serial to USB converter and never have had a problem.

I also use my work notebook from time to time. IBM Stinkpad T40 I think.

 

Older CTX laptop 266mhz w/256 RAM running Win98. I had Win Me on it, but went back to 98. Tried to get Moates USB converter working, but no luck.

I use Scan tool and cable from EASE diagnostics, had that for a long time. Most ly use it for part throttle tuning and driveability.

Also last 2 years been running Tunerpro RT, with homemade serial converter/cable. Works good, use it for PE tuning.
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Older CTX laptop 266mhz w/256 RAM running Win98. I had Win Me on it, but went back to 98. Tried to get Moates USB converter working, but no luck.

I use Scan tool and cable from EASE diagnostics, had that for a long time. Mostly use it for part throttle tuning and driveability.

Also last 2 years been running Tunerpro RT, with homemade serial converter/cable. Works good, use it for PE tuning.

 

Dell something
Pentium M 1.73GHZ(533 FSB)
512 Ram
USB ports,
Moates Autoprom(I love it best investment I ever made, highly recommended)
Latest version of Tuner Pro RT,
works great fro datalogging/emulating/and burning

only wish I had bought a smaller laptop

 

Mangus - your PC collection looks alot like mine. Makes for a small office.

Everything runs great on my X2 as well. Gotta love 'em.

 

Averatec 6100 series P4 HT w/ belkin USB to PDA(rs232) adapter and tunerpro.

 

1.5 GHz Apple Macintosh Powerbook (mmm, PowerBook) running 10.4, Keyspan USB-Serial Adapter P/N USA-19HS (w/ DB-9 connector), running a datalogging program I've written (called ALDLx) in RealBasic that mimics the functionality of ALDLMon and WinALDL. When tuning, I use TunerPro in VirtualPC for programming a Romulator while datalogging through a second Keyspan. This is all for a '7730.

 

Im running an HP Pavilion zx5000

It's a P4 northwood 3.0GHz w/ HT. 1GB Ram. Radeon mobility 9600 128mb. I use moates USB->Serial converter and ALDL cable.

Works great on my dads 730.

On my 165 it will just stop datalogging randomly, all the time, a real pain in the butt to get it going again. Gotta shut the car off and unplug/plug in the USB, run around in circles and pray to the datalog gods, etc.

Its Tunerpro RT software.

 

Fujitsu E Series E-6644/winxp SP2/built in serial and pcima socket I/O card

Datamaster TT

Datamaster cable

 

I'm using an IBM ThinkPad 240X (Celeron 450 MHz) running Windows 2000. I use Craig Moates' USB burner and a homemade "two transistor" cable connected to a traditional serial port.

I initially used Moates' DOS-based data acquisition software (which worked flawlessly, I might add), but it got to be a pain having to rely on a separate DOS boot disk to run the program and needing to reboot into Windows if the .bin needed altered. I now run TunerPro, which also works well but sometimes has issues connecting to the ECM. That was last year, though, so the new version might have corrected some things.

 

HP nc6000 w/ PentiumM & 1GB Ram. I've used both WinALDL, TunerPro, and PowerProgrammer2 with both Win2k and WinXP on it. Both times using an AKM OBD-1 cable.

Teeleton