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I'm tuning a mates Power FC at the moment and we spent about 4 hours trying to get Windows 7 to recognise the damn serial to USB cable for the Datalogit. Ended up giving up and just using another laptop with Vista lol. God I miss Windows XP sometimes.

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I'm tuning a mates Power FC at the moment and we spent about 4 hours trying to get Windows 7 to recognise the damn serial to USB cable for the Datalogit. Ended up giving up and just using another laptop with Vista lol. God I miss Windows XP sometimes.

What make was it? My girlfriend's Dell with W7 home will NOT recognise the ViPEC yet my ASUS EEEPC with W7 Starter will

Yeah his is a Dell with Windows 7 home.

Doesn't matter, I just use my gf's laptop. Only downside to her's is the battery life. We went out just before and after 45mins we were done lol.

Gotta admit though, the Datalogit and the Power FC in general is quite annoying to use when compared to the Vipec (this is my first time using a Power FC properly). How people manage to tune off of the hand controller only is beyond me. I would be pulling my hair out. But fair enough, the technology between them is obviously over a decade. Would probably say the same thing about the Vipec in 10 years time :P

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The Vipec only uses one of the two O2 sensors and it's not compulsory anyway. You can disable closed-loop mode. Better still is to install a wideband O2 sensor and wire it back to the Vi-pec. It has some awesome tuning features with wideband feedback.

yeah i had my datalogit with a dell laptop running win98 and true serial port

that was the best solution

now i has it. :)

if anyone in sydney needs to use send me a message and maybe we can be friends...

In Sydney at Kogarah there is a place that specialises in 2nd hand laptops and has quite a fell Dell Latitudes . I have two , this ones an old D610 with a Pentium M processor and my other ones a Latitude D630 . It has from memory a Core 2 Duo and is considerably faster/more modern hardware . Not expensive for what it is .

Both are set up to dual boot Win XP or Win 7 Ultimate and work really well .

Both have REAL serial ports which is the hardest thing to get in Laptops these days .

I do agree that Panasonic Tough Books are great things but tend to be expensive if not being used for other hard use reasons . Built to milspecs so like an Owen gun and can throw in the mud and stil get facebook .

A .

Disco whats the name of the comp store at kogarah? My acer with vista is hating life with the new nistune software.

I used my dyno shops samsung n130 older notebook and was loving it.

Need to buy another laptop/notebook.

Im looking at toughbooks now like status suggested. Have msgd a few 2nd hand places to get some prices.

Disco whats the name of the comp store at kogarah? My acer with vista is hating life with the new nistune software.

I used my dyno shops samsung n130 older notebook and was loving it.

Need to buy another laptop/notebook.

Im looking at toughbooks now like status suggested. Have msgd a few 2nd hand places to get some prices.

i got the latest toughbook ($6500) ex army or popo from ebay $450.. its killer... gps logging, touchscreen etc i even reverted to serial on my nistune interface cable and it has NEVER dropped a connection with any tuning suite.

I used to use $2000 asus, Toshiba etc but was forever chasing connection faults.... in fact lappy im on now was my old (1800 dollar) tuner laptop and it great for everything.... except tuning.... its become the most expensive net book ebay browser ever :P

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