3800 Something wrong with my car?

Well I went out and tried to hook up autotap so scan my car real fast. So this is what came up.

Unable to communicate with the vehicle.

1. Check to make sure ignition is in the on position.

2. Check the cables to the vehicle, to the Auto tap, and to the computer make sure there is a good connection.

Com 1: No Auto tap scan tool found on Com port 1
Com 2: No Auto tap scan tool found on Com port 2
Com 3: Com port 3 does not exist
Com 4: Com port 4 does not exist
Com 5: Com port 5 does not exist
Com 6: Com port 6 does not exist
Com 7: Com port 7 does not exist
Com 8: Com port 8 does not exist
Com 9: Com port 9 does not exist
Com 10: Com port 10 does not exist
Com 11: Com port 11 does not exist
Com 12: Com port 12 does not exist
Com 13: Com port 13 does not exist
Com 14: Com port 14 does not exist
Com 15: Com port 15 does not exist
Com 16: Com port 16 does not exist


I did all that and blew out the male end for the auto tap and the female end on the car.

My question is why will it not connect to my car. I am going to see if HP tuners will hook up to it on Friday night.

Any help will be appreciated,

Bob
 

Toasty

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Nov 4, 2007
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you wont connect to the car if you cant connect to the autotap

your laptop is not communicating with the autotap.

if you have any other form of communication software on the laptop, try disabling that (cell phone, palm hotsynch, microsoft active synch, etc etc) also check the autotap program for communication settings and make sure they match what is in the hardware profile of the laptop (start/settings/control panel/system/ports/COM1 --typically COM1, but like i said check the settings in the program too.
 
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