Topic: getting HP tuners

[MyBigToy]

PM replied to and still waiting on HPT to send it to me.  Supposedly, they will give it to anyone that ask because they want us to find any problems with it but they make no guarantees to anyone.  From what I hear, it's flawless, at least on the GM Gen 4 if you have the right drivers for it to open.



 How's that?   

  There's at least one in every crowd, and I've never been guilty. 

[KY_BOB]

I'm running it with Vista, which was problematic to get started initially. I tried all of the fixes and the only way I can use HPT is to hit F8 and disable signature enforcement. The only issue I've had is that I occasionally get an error when I try to flash a new tune. It tells me the interface is not found. Sometimes it works if I disconnect the USB cable and reconnect it and sometimes I have to shut HPT down, restart it, and try again. It's never failed to work with one of these two options.

 

My laptop is also on Vista.  I'll try the "F8" thing.  I keep getting "interface not found".  I worked on it half of the night last night and still haven't got it to connect.  I read on HPT forum that I needed to up date some drivers.  Maybe I'll get it figured out tonight.  If I can't get it working, I may try loading it on my old computer which is as slow as molasses.

[MyBigToy]

My laptop is also on Vista.  I'll try the "F8" thing.  I keep getting "interface not found".  I worked on it half of the night last night and still haven't got it to connect.  I read on HPT forum that I needed to up date some drivers.  Maybe I'll get it figured out tonight.  If I can't get it working, I may try loading it on my old computer which is as slow as molasses.

You will still have to follow the directions and load the new drivers. Once you do that, you just have to restart your computer, start repeatedly hitting F8 until a screen comes up with a list of choices, one of which is to disable signature enforcement, select that, and then it should work.

Just a word of caution here - restart the computer immediately after you are done scanning or flashing. If you don't and you access the Internet without signature enforcement you can get yourself in trouble with viruses/etc. very quickly.

[KY_BOB]

You will still have to follow the directions and load the new drivers. Once you do that, you just have to restart your computer, start repeatedly hitting F8 until a screen comes up with a list of choices, one of which is to disable signature enforcement, select that, and then it should work.

Just a word of caution here - restart the computer immediately after you are done scanning or flashing. If you don't and you access the Internet without signature enforcement you can get yourself in trouble with viruses/etc. very quickly.

Thanks, I'll give that a shot tonight.

[KY_BOB]

I'm pretty sure the old laptop crashed tonight, still messing with it.  I have HPT 2.23 loaded on this one but can't get it to see the interface.   

I think my  has been kicked.   I'll give a try again later.  I need a beer, some dinner, and some sleep.  I messed with this until 2:30am last night.

[Main One]

I'm pretty sure the old laptop crashed tonight, still messing with it.  I have HPT 2.23 loaded on this one but can't get it to see the interface.   

I think my  has been kicked.   I'll give a try again later.  I need a beer, some dinner, and some sleep.  I messed with this until 2:30am last night.

Until I see something I like about an upgrade, I'm usually not to keen on changing because of situations like this.

[KY_BOB]

I got the old laptop back to life.  It was just locked by something, probably a virus.  I was able to read and save entire tune from the '11 Silvy with it this morning.   

I brought it to work with me today.  If I have some slow time, I'll look the tune over.  I also may try to clean everything out of that computer that isnt tuning related and make it dedicated to tuning.  Hopefully I can get it running faster be cleaning it up.

...still no luck with the newer laptop but I haven't given up.


Update:  I found the program that was bogging down the old laptop and got it off there.  She's moving along pretty good now.  I may not even mess with the newer one.