First off, how do and sorry to be a little long winded. I am not new to EFILive V4 nor is my van but I have had a problem lately.

The van is a 1995 Olds Silhouette with an L27 3.8 V6, I use the 1995 Lumina APV .xml file. It is the OBD1/2 hybrid and uses the OBD 1 connector.

I bought my cable, a usb/obd1 cable from aldlcable about a year and a half ago. I used EFILive V4 pro with no problems on my Gateway laptop running Windows XP home.

A few months ago, I bought a new laptop with Windows 7, I installed EFILive V4 pro and tried to use it with my van and got this:

50:09.002: Initialising...
50:10.552: Opening COM2 8228,8,N,1
50:11.137: Ready.
50:18.455: Start macro: TRANSMIT FIXED DATA STREAM MESSAGE 00: DATADTC_00
50:18.692: Com timeout: Expecting frame header byte
50:18.920: Com timeout: Expecting frame header byte
50:19.146: Com timeout: Expecting frame header byte
50:19.151: Resuming normal ALDL communications...
50:19.169: Stop macro: TRANSMIT FIXED DATA STREAM MESSAGE 00: DATADTC_00

I've tried numerous different configurations to no avail. I was unable to install the drivers for my cable from the CD that came with my cable because my computer is a netbook and I have no external cd-rom yet. I was able to copy the drivers off my old gateway and install them though. I even tried my gateway but I formatted the harddrive and reinstalled XP and the drivers, I am getting the same message with it now as well.

Did my cable somehow get damaged by using it with my new laptop? I can use it just fine with WINALDL on my 1991 S10 Blazer, but EFILive freezes up when I tried to use it with the 160 BAUD Blazer, it did so when I first used it as well so i just continued to use WINALDL.

Any help will be appreciated.