[Vwdiesel] VAG-COM woes

[Shalyn Shourds]

Conway, Alan (IT) wrote:

>Shalyn,
>
>I had some problems with it hanging and taking a long time on Windows
>XP. I rebuilt the machine from the Windows CD and got rid of all the
>other installed programs and it started working fine after that. I had
>it working on Windows 2000 previously. It looks like it may have some
>co-existence issues with other software.
>
>Alan 
>  
>

Looks like Alan wins the prize.  I guess I'll mail you some cookies or 
something.  I scrounged up an old pentium 120 laptop with a raging 16 MB 
of RAM, formatted the drive, did a bare-bones installation of Win95 and 
it connected.  I fought the car for a couple of hours and after clearing 
out some random codes, it's now timed and well-nigh roadworthy.  I want 
to get a couple of shrouds back on it first and give it one last 
checkover, but I think we're golden.  My only immediate regreat is that 
there's like no chance that that old laptop will run the Bentley CD.  
That CD's pretty cool, but only registerable to one PC.  The VAG-COM is 
pretty cool too now that I can get into it, but I really think they have 
to get past all the interference stuff.  I have a lot bigger programs 
running that don't seem to have that issue. 

-Shalyn

'85 Jetta TD
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