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
