Nistune locking up Vista laptop

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed May 28, 2008 12:16 am

That last link has a section 'About the Aten driver' which will instruct you how to verify the driver version in vista and remove/update the driver

Follow those instructions and that should get you on the latest version

The aten website has the latest vista drivers, so I suggest using those

Let me know how that goes in the interim

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:43 am

I've removed optimisation from the compilation which will assist with debug issues and may consequently remove the accidental causes of some crash bugs

Please try out 0.9255 with the latest Aten drivers under vista and if you still have issues we can work from there

Optimisation can squish the usage of internal variables together and misuse of a variable can cause other variables to be overwritten and cause crashes

We can work from there

JasonKemmerer · Post by **JasonKemmerer** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:41 am

the .9255 exe comes up as .9254.

Yeah I got update from the UK site.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:03 pm

No probs. I've just fixed up the link on the website. I've ran logging today and problems have gone. Also some quick tests this morning with blazt cable on Vista.

Noticed my aten cable was not detected even after showing in device manager after installing drivers in Vista for the first time

Look at that more tonight

JasonKemmerer · Post by **JasonKemmerer** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:11 pm

Update
doesn't
So I played with it tonight and it did not crash once. This was still using .9254
All I did was update the ATEN driver!
Now when the Consult disconnects it doesn't crash (when car shuts off), neither does the consult or wideband disconnect on its own now.

You recommend me still upgrading to the newer version?

I ran it for 2 hours with no problems!

thanks!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed May 28, 2008 10:32 pm

Update doesnt? Sorry I dont know what you mean. Definately update to the 0.9255 version anyway. Changes are minor (I've been working on the knock count reporting with HCR32 at the moment)

FYI After fixing the link I've downloaded it and ran on Win98, WinXp and Vista machines and no problems yet. Problem with logger crashing has gone

This is good in one way since since optimisation is making a hidden problem come

Yeah looks like the driver was causing the crash with the disconnect, especially freezes which is why I started looking towards that direction. Google was definately helpful in this regard

I'm hoping the optimisation removal will assist the original poster for this thread also. However that is just making some memory allocation problem go away temporary in the meantime

JasonKemmerer · Post by **JasonKemmerer** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:41 am

I meant to say update: doesn't crash!

Jonh317 · Post by **Jonh317** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:13 pm

I was using the plms usb cable, and kept having problems with .9255, so I wanted to update the plms driver, and the driver from their website was being difficult and then i noticed it was a FTDI driver, so i googled it and found their website, http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm
Downloaded their latest driver 2.04.06 and went out tuning and it was working smooth not freezes no problems. you would have to override the windows warning saying it may not be the correct hardware to software combination, but it works a heck of alot better

!!! hope it helps, Matt might want to get plms to update their drivers to this if you can get them to look into it.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:01 pm

Thank you very much. I'll let Pete know and get him to update the drivers and I'll add the latest to the next NIStune distributable.

Found and fixed a crash bug in one of the logging display files ... gradually weeding them out

PL · Post by PL » Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:58 pm

Thanks guys. Drivers now updated:

http://www.plmsdevelopments.com/usb_drivers.htm

Regards
PL

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:14 pm

I'm currently in the process of updating the next installation package with latest FTDI (including Vista) drivers for the PLMS USB consult cables and Type 1 USB boards

Will be available in the next release

satanstinydevil · Post by **satanstinydevil** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:23 pm

Vista sucks hard. I'm still using XP because I refuse to downgrade to Cista.

PL · Post by PL » Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:28 pm

I agree. XP was a great OS. We didn't need Vista. Nobody wanted Vista. I'll avoid it as long as technically possible.

I suspect micro$oft will bring out their next OS and try to forget that Vista ever existed. Here's hoping...

PL

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:46 pm

The latest beta version has all the newer FTDI drivers in them.

Make sure if you are running Vista you uninstall previous driver versions for both the USB device AND the COM port it creates if using PLMS USB consult cables