Anybody with a Lexia in Stoke on Trent?

[lankytim]

As above, my damn ABS light has come on and MOT is due soon!

I have my own lexia, but don't have a 32 bit windows to run it off. ANNOYING.

Tim

[Ciaran]

Tim have you considered the prospect of running a 32 bit version of Windows on your 64 bit machine using virtualisation software like the free Virtualbox?

I'm not sure what the level of hardware port access required is but know it's possible to emulate a lot of that in x64 operating systems, if the Lexia worked in Windows XP which has the Windows NT Hardware Abstraction Layer (as opposed to the direct hardware access - and instability - of Windows 98, Me etc), then it should be possible to get it working and accessing the COM ports in a 32 bit virtual environment.

Ciarán

[lankytim]

I had heard about that, but I'm a bit of a technological cripple so there's zero chance of me putting your advice into action.

[kingp]

If your ever up this way Tim I have one I know works decently on an xm

[lankytim]

Cool, just may do that thanks.

[kingp]

Happy to help Tim just drop me a line when you want to pop up it's been tested on a 2.5 as well so should be fine with yours

[lankytim]

Hey will, sent you a message on FB, any chance I can come up on Saturday?

[kingp]

And replied Tim

Should be no problems