trickyrix

I need one so my laptop can talk to MegaSquirt. So far I've gone through THREE different pieces of crap from Fry's, and NONE of them work with Windows 7 - in spite of the fact that two actually list Windows 7 on their compatibility list. Every one of these is supposed to be plug-n-play, but none of them are. When I plug them in, Windows automatically searches for a driver to install, but then it fails. If I try to troubleshoot and update the driver, it tells me the driver is already up to date. If I go to any of the manufacturer's websites to download a driver, every last one of them gives me the same driver (Prolific something-or-other). This driver doesn't work. The "Windows 7" driver on one of the discs doesn't work either. I'm all up-to-date on my Windoze patches and updates so I'm at the end of my rope with this crap. I want to severely beat Bill Gates about the head and face with a table leg at this point.

WTF???

Anybody advice/suggestions/recommendations are welcome.

EO2K

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Go to RadioShack and pick up the cheap *** "GigaWare" one (or whatever the **** the RS house brand is called) and try it.

sjmarcy

Which three POC did you try out?

trickyrix

Here are the fantastic brands I tried:
PC Gearhead
Aluratek
Cables Unlimited

They can all suck it.

EO2K

iTrader: (37)

I had the Cables Unlimited one for years, stopped working when I went from XP to 7 on my work laptop, so I threw it on the ground.

RatShack GigaWhatsit one works fine with my Win7 laptop, I use it at work for connecting to console ports on Cisco equipment.

trickyrix

Is THIS the one you guys are talking about? $40 is fine if it works... and I guess I can take the SOB back if it doesn't.

EO2K

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Yarp. Go in and pay cash, easier to return if I'm a liar

jeff_man

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You have to boot vista and win 7 in to disable sigh driver check, then the cables unlimited one will work along with many others.

Ben

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http://www.diyautotune.com/catalog/u...tune-p-67.html


$22.50
Just sayin

jeff_man

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that is the cables unlimited one that he bot local

hustler

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In this crew, with flawless operation.

Rick, you need to get some of those little pins to plug the IAT wires into the mass air sensor. I know DIY has them, not sure about Fry's.

Ben

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It is a CU item, but they have a few different models. I've tested 2, and both worked fine. Though one of the models had a stupid thumbscrew design that was hard to use (it was operationally fine once you got it mounted). Stupid thumbscrew model is not the one we carry.

I use the USB2920 with a Win7 computer every day.

trickyrix

That looks suspiciously like the Cables Unlimited piece of **** I bought today. I tried the driver DIY linked to but that was a no-go. Part of the problem is that ******* Windows 7 won't let me manually select the driver after I plug in the adapter. It happily auto-selects some random driver and then it fails. At that point, it won't even let me update the driver to something that I think might work.

Having said all that... I'll try that one.

hustler

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I'll bring mine over tomorrow and we can install the driver the same way I installed mine.

trickyrix

Sounds like a plan.

gospeed81

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I've had the GigaWare from RadiosHack work on every OS I've used, including Win7 Beta.

I have one in the garage you can have since I haven't had a working MS in over a year.

Braineack

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**** i couldnt get the gigaware one to work on my win7 machine. I couldn't get the drivers to install and recognize it.

trickyrix

I double checked just now and the CU unit is the USB-2920 model. Go figure...