How do I change the scan time?

[Mongoose69]

I used my scanner for the 1st time yesterday. I couldn't get it to record for more than maybe 5-6 seconds. Just enough time to do a full 2nd gear pull on the on ramp. I was looking at the gage display and the trend chart. Chris

[Keith@HPTuners]

It should record indefinately.

Are you using a serial to USB adapter? What are the specs of your laptop?

[Mongoose69]

It's a Compaq 1295. 333 MHz. 64Meg ram over 100meg free hard disk space. Not much on it except the HPTuners programs. I am using the serial port connection with the cable just connected right to the laptop. Is that method not fast enough in transferring data?

[jimmyblue]

Coming up from the bottom, in terms of hardware,
I got in the habit of not displaying anything at all
when logging. No graphs, no gauges, not even the
table. With only 64M RAM you may be overtaxing the
real memory and once you start swapping in and out
of VM all the time, things get mighty slow. Bulk up the
RAM (should be pretty cheap to get to 192MB at
least) and minimize any background memory / CPU
"distractions". Esp stuff like on my machines, Easy
CD Creator / DirectCD is a real pig, full time resident.
My "car laptop" is loaded only with HPTuners, EFILive
and Microsoft Office.

[Keith@HPTuners]

Try just viewing the table display with all of the other windows closed (not even minimized). See if that corrects your short log times. Perhaps the graphics of the gauge and chat displays are slowing down your machine to the point where it can't keep up with the vehicle.

[Mongoose69]

sounds likke a plan guys. i cleaned up startup thru msconfig when i got home. i'll close the other dsplays and see if that helps too. i'll let you knw the results later this week. heading for mxico wednesday so don't know if i can try it before i leave or not. worst case i'll try it satutday. thanks for the ideas. chris