USB to Serial (DB9) and Vista

[turboglenn]

Anyone know of any fixes or drivers for vista that work with the dynex USB to serial adapter? I've got a Link Plus G2 ECU to tune yesterday (now today) and We've been trying several adapters with no luck on it since the owner got a new laptop running vista. His old laptop that his ex stole worked fine with XP home. My 233mhz that i use on haltechs, megasquirt and acell DFI is too slow to run the software (as it is with the AEM stuff) and i sent my faster laptop to my woman in MS to use for chatting and what not so i dont' have my backup either ( i knew what adapters worked on it).

We need to be able to get online with this thing ASAP, anyone got any tricks..short of ordering a keyspan brand USB to serial i need to find a sloution locally, if not we'll order the keyspan (they're great)

 

[turboglenn]

Never mind, we got it tonight.. bought the "vista aproved" adapter, used it's driver and the adapter we've been battling for 2 days all of the sudden is vista compatible, but only if you spend 5 bucks more

 

[Defiant]

Ah, Vista. ME, version 2.

 

[turboglenn]

What's the "ME, v.2" about? I don't know ish about vista other than i don't want to switch to it (i'm happy with "XP Media ultimate edition" A hackered version mixing the function of XP with the look of vista and some vista add-ons)

It seems every new laptop has vista now days, i was looking for one with XP on it and they told me unless i loaded it myself i couldn't get a laptop with out vista now days And i really want a new laptop someday this year... after i get my turbo and a few other things anyway.

 

[Defiant]

Windows Millennium Edition. A thankfully forgotten version between 95 and XP. Which still worked better than Vista, and didn't take any six minutes to re-boot.

 

[knochgoon24]

Or, you can dual boot. I run Vista for all my "pretty" programs running Direct X 10 and use XP to run the stuff that disagrees with Vista, like anything dealing with Serial to USB converters. Plus, I've used XP for so long that I've tweaked the system to fully boot in about 90 seconds.

Oh, I bought my laptop with Vista, partitioned it as soon as I got it, then installed XP. There's a few sites that can guide you through it. I've also "enjoyed" that PITA Genuine Advantage thing. Figure that buying Vista AND Office then suffering through Vista pre SP 1 should allow me to run XP on more than 1 system.

 

[architechnik]

Or, you can dual boot. I run Vista for all my "pretty" programs running Direct X 10 and use XP to run the stuff that disagrees with Vista, like anything dealing with Serial to USB converters. Plus, I've used XP for so long that I've tweaked the system to fully boot in about 90 seconds.

Oh, I bought my laptop with Vista, partitioned it as soon as I got it, then installed XP. There's a few sites that can guide you through it. I've also "enjoyed" that PITA Genuine Advantage thing. Figure that buying Vista AND Office then suffering through Vista pre SP 1 should allow me to run XP on more than 1 system.

That's what I was going to say. I run XP64 and it doesn't accept all the drivers so sometimes I boot off of the x32 version. It's what I have to do for any chip burning. You can even setup different versions if you do any hardware swapping... yeah, I'm a geek like that.

 

[bling5tatus]

If you all don't want to deal with all the problems that windows has and think that vista sucks.. you don't have to downgrade to another buggy os (xp)... you can use linux and yes your precious dsmlink will still work on it... or at least there are install directions for linux on their website.