My experience with a laptop GT1

[TwinsPoppa]

Originally Posted by rb0135

Hi All,

I have an E53 Sept 05 X5 with ODBII connector in the car (no round diag head in the engine bay// well, I couldnt find one in the place it should be). I have the GT1 software V55 running under VMWARE, connected to the Yellow Head Unit (from yohotech) which is connected to the ODB port. Tests work fine, but I get the above error, like Koister did in a previous post.

My battery is measuring 12.9V (measured with a multimeter at the recharge/jump points in the engine bay).

The only problem I think I am seeing, is that I cant get it to read automatically the car information. If I manually select the car type, etc, then I can run the diagnostics, it shows some system errors, but that is because i dont have those components in the car (like heated seats). I can run individual tests and they seem to work OK.

Havent tried SSS yet.

Is this just the warning message as mentioned previously for "young techs" so they remember NOT to kill the battery or something else.

Thanks,
Rob

Rob,

The vmware version might just be more voltage sensitive. I'm not 100% positive but that's what I think it is.

I get a similar error every now and then. I don't use the vmware version and my version I use is v43. I find that sometimes I have to restart my laptop and that seems to help sometimes. Also, sometimes I'll start the X, connect the GT1, then shut the engine. This seems to help with the voltage connection problem.

I have the battery charger/power supply but I usually don't need it. However, I've been encountering this more often recently. Probably because of the longer sessions.

- Jose

[rb0135]

Originally Posted by TwinsPoppa

Rob,

The vmware version might just be more voltage sensitive. I'm not 100% positive but that's what I think it is.

I get a similar error every now and then. I don't use the vmware version and my version I use is v43. I find that sometimes I have to restart my laptop and that seems to help sometimes. Also, sometimes I'll start the X, connect the GT1, then shut the engine. This seems to help with the voltage connection problem.

I have the battery charger/power supply but I usually don't need it. However, I've been encountering this more often recently. Probably because of the longer sessions.

- Jose

Thanks Jose,

I will try your trick with turning on the X, connect the GT1 then shutting the engine off.

I did read someone said something about v55 being overly sensitive of the voltage.. Just hope I am OK with SSS.. There is only 1 or 2 things I want to program, so it wont be used for large projects.

Will post back after more testing....

Rob

[TwinsPoppa]

Originally Posted by rb0135

Thanks Jose,

I will try your trick with turning on the X, connect the GT1 then shutting the engine off.

I did read someone said something about v55 being overly sensitive of the voltage.. Just hope I am OK with SSS.. There is only 1 or 2 things I want to program, so it wont be used for large projects.

Will post back after more testing....

Rob

I've also done some things while the engine was still running. I don't think you'll screw-up anything if you do that with simple diagnosing. Besides, from my experience, the GT1 usually will tell you if it needs the engine off or on in order to continue. Yes, there are instances where it will actually ask you to have the engine started.

[rb0135]

Originally Posted by TwinsPoppa

I've also done some things while the engine was still running. I don't think you'll screw-up anything if you do that with simple diagnosing. Besides, from my experience, the GT1 usually will tell you if it needs the engine off or on in order to continue. Yes, there are instances where it will actually ask you to have the engine started.

Great... thanks for the info. Much appreciated.

Rob