Diacom problems...

[David A. Cooley]

Sounds like the cable went south... Maybe a broken ground wire.
Check the plug to the laptop for a pushed in pin... seen that happen before.

At 07:06 PM 7/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Suddenly Diacom has lost the ability to link to my 89 Formula...
>Also tried to link to my buddy's 95 Z with it today, so now I'm
>thinking either the cable or the laptop. Here's the symptoms- Select
>link, it sits there at linking to vehicle, and nothing happens...
>Now, if I press enter a bunch of times, it will link after a
>fashion, but not update unless you hold down the enter key... Also
>shows massive amounts of trouble codes in both cars, and neither
>mine or the 95 Z has the SES light lit. Also tried another CALPAC in
>my current ECM, another ECM with my CALPAC, and both the current and
>backup ECM that I have have been tried with another different
>CALPAC.
>Can't see anything in diag mode, can only see data in ALDL mode.
>I've tried running the laptop in PC DOS 7.0 (where it worked fine
>before) and the MS-DOS mode of Win 95 OSR2- doesn't help... Have
>tried setting PP both bidi and SPP, no change.  Have deleted and
>reinstalled the software, and booted my laptop clean with no
>config.sys or autoexec.
>laptop is an IBM ThinkPad 755CD with a Pentium 75, and used to work
>fine with Diacom. Have initalized the cable exactly according to the
>Diacom book, also.
>Any ideas?
>I'm going to call Rinda Tuesday, but maybe someone has an idea that
>I haven't tried?
>TIA
>Tom

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