Fiat Gm Ecu Options

[idan]

Hi there
Coming from the fiatforum seeking for answers

I have a 1.6 Punto which has a GM ECU. I've read that the Alfa 145 uses it?
Is it the same ECU?



I know that only the FIAT Examiner could connect to that one.
Is there any way to connect to the 3 pin socket with the right program to read fault codes?

[black 146]

Hi there
Coming from the fiatforum seeking for answers

I have a 1.6 Punto which has a GM ECU. I've read that the Alfa 145 uses it?
Is it the same ECU?



I know that only the FIAT Examiner could connect to that one.
Is there any way to connect to the 3 pin socket with the right program to read fault codes?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo-145-1...=item3387050cdc
this is the ones that go on the twin sparks

[buellboy]

Fiat examiner or uniscan 1.83. I got uniscan to work and connect to an alfa 145 1.7 boxer
Needs a machine with dos and a serial port. I even got it to work on a laptop but needed a serious serial pmcia card with drivers for dos which were difficult to find.

[idan]

Oh!
I got it working on a virtual WIN98 machine:





It seems to read every FIAT model and my ECU!
I'll get one, is it a Chinese product?

The only ones I found are on Aliexpress and Alibaba, not ebay:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Uniscan-ver.../454187290.html

Does that link look safe?

[buellboy]

It will not work in virtual win 98 as the drivers for the serial cards won't work. You can however make a bootable partition or usb key with freedos and it will work. There should be some good uniscan on a polish website that I forget the name of, but was a website specialising in hardware and software to communicate to ecus. Don't trust the Chinese s**t. ... It doesn't work

[idan]

Thanks

I will probably get a hold of a an old Compac Armada M300 laptop which has 1X serial port and a Parallel one.



Does the Parallel port acts like a serial port?
Would something like that work:



Or I'd still need a PCMCIA extender?

[GialloEvo94]

I never had any luck getting Uniscan to work but I'm pretty sure you need two REAL serial ports. I don't think a parallel port is going to be any good even with a converter cable.

[buellboy]

you need 2x serial ports. If you get one from a laptop, you then need to have another one from a PCMCIA card with the right drivers. I had all the necessary hardware but lost it during a move.