Dell Car laptop

[David's8]

Originally Posted by chucklestinlegs

Does this work with my Sega Mega Drive, you IT guys Bamboozle me

Dont worry Charlie, if you need advice on electrickery/computery stuff there is a lot of expertise on the forum or in the Glasgow area. If you want to give it a scan then someone will be glad to oblige I am sure.

[chucklestinlegs]

Originally Posted by David's8

Dont worry Charlie, if you need advice on electrickery/computery stuff there is a lot of expertise on the forum or in the Glasgow area. If you want to give it a scan then someone will be glad to oblige I am sure.

[Somerandomguy]

Originally Posted by M-A8

You can't go wrong with the Dell to be honest even if it's 5 years old and only little spec as thats all what's needed for the use of VCDS and ETKA/ElsaWin.

Price is very reasonable

PS. Do you have to change the system time to launch your ETKA and is there a trick to get the updates working as mine 7.3 just wont do the updates.

I have been changing the date, but found a czech updater online which seems to work nicely, but there is a limit to the updates That you can apply I believe (it was certainly asking for 7.4 when I tried running the updater on a 7.3 installation)

It looks like anymore that I can get will be a slightly lower spec, either 1.06ghz or 1.2ghz, but hopefully I'll be able to knock a few quid off if theres inteest.

[ainarssems]

Originally Posted by ainarssems

I have 7.4 international with update tool 1.05 that works just fine, I believe it should work with 7.3 as well. I you PM me your e-mail address I can send you a copy.

Your e-mail does not like my attachments so I have added it here.

Update tool is for data only, does not update prices, I have not had price updates for a long time myself. Just run the update tool, it should find the Etka installation and download updates for it, the next time you start Etka it should see the downloaded updates and ask you if you want to install them. You might have to repeat it several times if you have not had updates for a long time, I think It’s only downloading 5 updates for each brand at the time. I have also attached latest price files I have which are from September 2013.

Regards
Ainars

[M-A8]

Originally Posted by ainarssems

Your e-mail does not like my attachments so I have added it here.

Update tool is for data only, does not update prices, I have not had price updates for a long time myself. Just run the update tool, it should find the Etka installation and download updates for it, the next time you start Etka it should see the downloaded updates and ask you if you want to install them. You might have to repeat it several times if you have not had updates for a long time, I think It’s only downloading 5 updates for each brand at the time. I have also attached latest price files I have which are from September 2013.

Regards
Ainars

Morning Ainars
You are The Man, Thank You for that, great stuff
Not sure what's wrong with the email.
It's good to have up to date prices from time to time, but it's not a big problem, local Audi parts blokes are not that bad.
Cheers

Marcin

[ainarssems]

Thanks Tristan, laptops received,, great condition, almost like new cosmetic condition, come with extended life 9 cell batteries instead of standard 6 cell, bit bulkier but great battery life, shows 8 hours life on idle. Docking stations with CD/DVD drive and serial, parallel ports, maybe not needed for everyone but I have serial cable for Volvo FCR and parallel oscilloscope.

The only thing that lets them down is a slow hard drive and not many upgrade options with it being 1.8 ZIF drive but I ordered 128GB SSD from Far East and will upgrade RAM to 2GB.


Don't want to take away opportunity to have one from others but if there are no takers I am happy to buy couple more.

[ainarssems]

Morning Ainars
You are The Man, Thank You for that, great stuff

Does it work on 7.3?

[M-A8]

Originally Posted by ainarssems

Does it work on 7.3?

Hmmm...looks like it works, but I don't think it doesn't
When you launch it the error message pops up and after clicking ignore everything goes as it should but nothing is done.

[ainarssems]

Originally Posted by M-A8

Hmmm...looks like it works, but I don't think it doesn't
When you launch it the error message pops up and after clicking ignore everything goes as it should but nothing is done.

Sorry to hear it did not work. It does not give me that error even on PC where there is no ETKA, just says 'No Etka install found'.

[M-A8]

It could be because I use XP Mode on Win7 (virtual machine)
Is 7.4 compatible with Win7 (64bit)???