For SirStude

[Fat Cat]

You posted in the chat room last night

sirstude: Roundtable Chat Anyone fiddled with obdII scanner software for a laptop? Got my old laptop from work and hate to let it go to waste.

I have some. I bought the package from http://www.obd-2.com/ that does all the major stuff. I think it was the tricombo package. I have used it a number of times on my Dakota, my wife's Olds and my son's Contour. I have an old laptop that was given to me recently with a bad hard drive. I am planning to use one of the various cd based Win XP OSes to run it right off the CD. My boss liked it so much that we purchased the same system to use in our shop.

[sirstude]

Thanks,  I thought someone had mentioned that on the baord at some time.  Must have been you.

Doug

[rooster]

You posted in the chat room last night

sirstude: Roundtable Chat Anyone fiddled with obdII scanner software for a laptop? Got my old laptop from work and hate to let it go to waste.

I have some. I bought the package from http://www.obd-2.com/ that does all the major stuff. I think it was the tricombo package. I have used it a number of times on my Dakota, my wife's Olds and my son's Contour. I have an old laptop that was given to me recently with a bad hard drive. I am planning to use one of the various cd based Win XP OSes to run it right off the CD. My boss liked it so much that we purchased the same system to use in our shop.

FatCat sense your famular with these instruments, can you advise the wisest  investment for a beginner. I was thinking the laptop route but dont know. All the cars we have now are OBD1.
Denny