Interface cable

[Chevy 97]

I hooked up my laptop to the truck with a charger to the power port to keep the batter up on the laptop so I could do a log run.
I then hooked up the scan tool. The interface cable between laptop and scan tool got very hot, now when I hook up scan tool to laptop it doesn't see the interface cable. I am sure it is fried.

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[joecar]

Do you have FlashScan V2 or V1...?

[Chevy 97]

I have the V2, I bought a new cable and nothing still works, I think I fried something inside. Not totally positive. I sent an PM to the person I bought this through to see where I can have it looked at since I live in Canada.

[Blacky]

That failure mode is usually the USB protection chip on the FlashScan circuit board which stops the power from feeding back into the USB connection and destroying your PC/laptop's USB port. It can be replaced by our US distributor, SoCal diesel in CA. Their contact details are here: http://www.efilive.com/distributors

Regards
Paul

[Chevy 97]

Thanks I sent them off an email.