Virtual-pc / ds.... HELP

[Live_to_die]

After owning my Gn for two years now, I decieded its time to hook up the direct scan that is already installed and worked fine when I bought the car. I'm ready to rip it all out, throw some 110 octane on it, and watch it burn. I have a 2.7 intel, running xp pro, with virtual pc loaded on the comp. The onlyu sucess that I have had is getting ms-dos to boot in virtual-pc, and getting ds to boot from the floppy directly. Going to realtime display, message displays "Hardware not detected"! Computer is set up with the parallel port at standarrd or spp already. How are you running your ds with virtual pc, ms-dos, or windows 98?

I would appreciate any experienced help..
This 10 sec., 20,000 mile Gn would appreciate it as well..

 

[TurboDave]

Far as I'm concerned, Win98 is the only way to fly when running DS, or ANY other high end scan tool, or data logging tool, or power train management system. !!!!

That's why I'll always have a good win98 laptop around for such things.

The headaches with trying to get and good high end tuning tool to run through XP is just too much of a headache (even though I love XP for everything else computer related).

 

[Jbenn911]

Dave is right!!!...that being said, if you know someone with an older PC, you can just make a win98 boot disk with DS on it... MY buddy's laptop is XP and that's the only way we could get DS to work..

 

[dgreene]

I've run DirectScan from inside of Virtual PC on XP and had good results. I think you have to setup VPC to capture the paralell port while running to get it to work. I'll look next time I'm at the shop and see how it's configured.

 

[dgreene]

Yes, it needs to capture the paralell port to function. Mine works perfect, if I maximize it to full screen, you don't even know your are in windows.


After trying to help several people to get DS to work with VirtualPC and DOS on XP, I've come to the conclusion booting off a floppy or getting an old laptop to run dos is probably the fastest, easiest choice for most everybody that doesn't like to tinker.