I'm looking for some recommendations on what OBD-2 software and cable to use with an S2000. I'd like to get one that will allow me to pull/reset CEL error codes and do diagnostics on my S2000. I'm not sure what software and cable to get though. There seems to be a few different types of cables, so I don't know which one is compatible with the S2000. Also, what software should I use? I have a notebook PC with USB and a serial port (compaq armada e500, P2, 128M ram, win98).

I've seen a couple of OBD-2 cable and software sites such as:

http://www.obddiagnostics.com/
http://www.autotap.com/
http://www.obd-2.com/

so does anyone have any recommendations on what software to use, and what cable I need to connect to the S2000? thanks

 

I've just opened a similar topic under the "Electronis" forum.

http://forums.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.p...threadid=176890

Kevin

 

that is for a compaq IPAQ handheld. I am asking for a notebook PC. Your thread doesn't talk about what cable I'd need, or have recommendations for windows 98 software. thanks tho. I'd still like to get recommendations on what cable and software I can use to pull/reset OBD-2 CEL codes on an S2000. Thanks

 

I know the OBD-2.com product will work on Win98 and Win3.1, which makes it a good candidate for use with an old laptop that's no longer useable for much of anything else. And the software is small, just over a MB, compared to the 14 MB download for another product I looked at. But it's serial port only, so if you have only USB you'll need an adapter.

I've had mine for a week or so but haven't used it except to plug it in, verify a DTC, then reset it, which was easy enough to do. It looks like it does long-term logging of just about anything monitored by the ECM and your only storage limit is hard drive space.

I was hoping to use it with my Panasonic CF-32 (half the size of a regular laptop) but it's been very flaky lately - sometimes won't boot and sometimes locks up (really locks up - CTRL-ALT-DEL won't work). So I'll probably be looking for a used cheesy laptop to go with the OBD-2.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by modifry
I know the OBD-2.com product will work on Win98 and Win3.1, which makes it a good candidate for use with an old laptop that's no longer useable for much of anything else.

 

I have EASE Diagnostics OBDII software and it works great except it doesn't monitor the knock sensor, which would be useful for tuning timing. Does anyone know of software that does?

 

Piggy back ride....

Has anybody successfully used such a connector (to a laptop or something) that can retrieve OBD information through a CAN port? (Found on modern types of Volvo etc.)

Compliant to "ISO DIS 15765-4 "Road Vehicles - Diagnostics on Controller Area Network (CAN) - Part 4: Requirements for emission-related systems" to be precise..??

THNX


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