TurboLink, Direct Scan, & W2K

[Dean]

I'm tired of my old laptop, mostly due to the lack of working batteries, but also the screen. I am in a financial position to get a new wizbang laptop, but as I recall reading elsewhere a few months ago somewhere, there would be muy problemo running TL & DS on W2K/XP machines, which defeats the main purpose of this laptop.

True or false??

 

[jon_we4]

I just got TL to run on my XP laptop....

man it was hard..look at

http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40915

 

[Dean]

Man, I'm lost with that stuff... I need a "plug-n-play" laptop or I'm FUBAR!

Dean

 

[jon_we4]

hrrmmm

get the new laptop and then in a month or two you can use Turbo Link 3.0 on it with win2k/XP

 

[Dean]

What of Direct Scan?? All of my fine tuning and troubleshooting on my car is done with DS, and then on the track it is usually TL, if I have the boost sensing harness on... otherwise it is DS.

I also use TL quite a bit on other folks' cars so that I don't have to do ECM/DS hardware swaps.

Kent Chu (or someone smater than me 'bout this... not hard ), where are you!

Dean

 

[jon_we4]

well you wouldnt be able to run direct scan. however i know ken was talking about fast datastreams for 3.0 later down the road so that you'd get more frames per second and be able to fine tune it.

 

[Dean]

Just got an e-mail from Kent who says I can use a laptop that has W2K / XP installed, booting from a DOS bootable floppy disk in order to get the laptop into standard MS-DOS mode. I replied directing him to your other thread, informing him of my nearly complete lack of knowledge of what to do or look for if it doesn't work.

:-Dean