Bronco2fan
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Glad you got it sorted quickly. You're definitely a pro now.
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Yup! I was just saying to someone else….cant dismiss the guy who seemingly s u c k s at everything, pretty soon he’ll be the best if he doesn’t give up!Glad you got it sorted quickly. You're definitely a pro now.
Thanks brother! You’re right! Not at level 000. I’m on the ground floor now. Working my way up to the top floorAwesome you finally got to crack it off! You have officially made it to the fun part. I know there’s still a ton to do but it’s close enough now that I can say, remember when you were frustrated with your car in a million pieces trying to figure out turbo placement? Well, now you’re just a guy who has this done!
Congrats brother
I did this as wellI was always taking my laptop with my QuickBooks stuff and I just wanted a dedicated laptop just for fun (no P O R N) lol! Just car stuff, genuinely.
In Forscan you had used BT firs so its trying to connect to that - you can change the order it connects in.So I’m in connection settings and I choose auto-connect or whatever and I’m so confused that it’s displaying my connection as Bluetooth and says it’s connected to Andrew’s phone. Why is it connected to my phone it’s directly connected to the computer?
Blue screen of death I take it?So I was trying to change the connection type and pressed something to where my computer tells me it’s performed an operation incorrectly and bricks my new laptop. Wtf!?!?!? Now I need to get some magical Microsoft recovery key code ID, I’m instructed to buy a 32g flash drive and recover the computer that way….WTF!!!
YupBlue screen of death I take it?
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LenovoDid the laptop start again, or did it "post" and say it cant find the hard drive? who is the manufacturer, dell, asus, msi, lenovo? If you dont have a good resource you can PM me.
Yes I have to request it. I was going to figure out how to request it but wanted to check out the abs bleed but got sidetracked in forscan connection settings and the computer left the chat lolSupport RequestSupport Request
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Generate free 2 months trial Extended License Key
looks like you can still buy the 1 yr license ... used to be for much longer.
What are limitations of free trial Extended License?Support Request
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So did you remove the OBDLink USB cable and restart? If you do and it Blue Screens then it could be a hard drive issue. Otherwise if you remove the OBDLink USB cord and Windows starts it could be you didn't install the USB driver from their site https://www.obdlink.com/support/ex/ Download and install that FTDI driver then download lower on the page the Firmware Updated. Then update the USB OBDLink dongle with that program. That programs latest version is 5.10.3.Lenovo
I didn’t remove it but I restated the computer once with it still plugged in and got the same message. Then I handed it off to my GF to mess with and I believe she’s recovering it now or like, in less than an hour maybe. So once I get running again I’ll need to download everything again. I’ll look to download that link so it recognizes the OBDlink EX. I’ve got windows 11.Ba
So did you remove the OBDLink USB cable and restart? If you do and it Blue Screens then it could be a hard drive issue. Otherwise if you remove the OBDLink USB cord and Windows starts it could be you didn't install the USB driver from their site https://www.obdlink.com/support/ex/ Download and install that FTDI driver then download lower on the page the Firmware Updated. Then update the USB OBDLink dongle with that program. That programs latest version is 5.10.3.
That updates the dongle and makes sure it works properly with the computer.
Windows 10 or 11?
PM me and I can walk you through it if you need.
My personal opinion, for use with FORScan, the vLinker dongles are better and cheaper. For PC usb use the vLinker FS. For FORScan Lite and Android bluetooth use vLinker FD. For IOS or Android and FORScan Lite use vLinker FD+. The bluetooth adapters will also work with a PC, though not recommended. Recommended by FORScan and available on Amazon.I'm looking at this dongle for forscan for my '14 f150 so please post what you find out.