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kjhansen:
I used to use this program, a long time ago, and it worked fine for what it was.  So I found it online, still free, but updated so it would run on newer computers.  Since I no longer have a laptop that runs on Win 95 or older, I figured that was a good thing.  I do have a laptop using Win 8, which is supposed to be good for WINALDL.  My homemade cable, however, no longer has an old fashioned serial port to plug into.  So I bought a cable with the ALDL plug on one side and a USB plug on the other.  The cable maker said it worked with WINALDL.
Not so much.
I only get four streams of data and they make no sense.
I hooked the cable to the ALDL port on the car and to com port 4 on the computer.  WinALDL sees the cable and the car's ECM.  I drove around until the engine warmed up and the car went into closed loop.  It started streaming data--at least, some data--as soon as I started the engine.
The problem I have encountered is that the data flow makes no sense. With everything hooked up and the Raw Data tab OR the Sensor Data tab on, I mostly just get two data streams--and they're in the first two rows: MW2 and PROMIDA.

These numbers seem to change randomly.  Occasionally I get more data, but only a few more rows; PROMIDB, IAC, CT and MPH.  These numbers also make no sense.  MPH, for example, can vary from 3 to 145 when the car is moving at a steady speed or standing still.

The car has a non-stock chip, but the ECM is stock.  The chip is a Turbo-Tweak chip, if that helps.

Any thoughts?

Keith

nocooler:
Do you have the correct ecm selected in Winaldl? Under configuration, ecm type

earlbrown:
https://www.turbobuick.com/threads/how-to-setup-winaldl-and-scan-your-car.194826/


...and....

https://www.turbobuick.com/threads/how-to-setup-turbometer-pro-and-scan-your-car.195619/

kjhansen:

--- Quote from: nocooler on December 01 2020, 03:35:28 PM ---Do you have the correct ecm selected in Winaldl? Under configuration, ecm type

--- End quote ---
Yes

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