Datatek said:

To my surprise, RAVE worked on Win10 without clicking through the Adobe error messages. that I get on XP.
After 2 days getting rid of all the surveillance and other unwanted stuff, Win10 works better than Win7 which is also a surprise.

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wammers said:

I still use 7 professional 64 bit on main comp. It is superb. My windows 10 laptop is crap. Mainly because it constantly downloads crap that is not needed and uses all the disc space.

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ned_ said:

Martin thanks! many thanks. I did try yes but its the same, no communication.

Okay so RAVE has always frustrated me, I've tried installing in on several occasions.

I'm watching this video right now but cannot get past installing Adobe Acrobat 4 (which is from 1999)



I'm on a windows 10 laptop, x64

When I try to install the included Adobe Acrobat file, it quits after 3 seconds
When I try to double click the Rave.exe , it quits after 3 seconds

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I do have a PDF of the workshop manual,and in the electrical section, the menu looks like this... it doesn't seem to have the diesel engine harness

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Grrrrrr said:

I took the installed folder from my 32 bit XP computer and placed it in the c:\program files (x86) folder on my Win 10 64 bit computer then made a shortcut to the executable and it worked. Think there's a zipped copy like this somewhere.

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ned_ said:

Okay so I have news.

A Land Rover head here in Dublin called around last night, he used to work for Land Rover. He had with him a Hawkeye Pro, and he took a look at my car.

We were not successful, but, what we came across might be interesting to you guys.

First he plugged in the Hawkeye, but it found the same as my nanocom - 'unable to establish communications with the EDC'

He had a hunch that the EDC ecu was fried, so he took that apart and inspected it visually.

I mentioned to him that I had a spare EDC ecu and a spare working BECM

So then we swapped the BECM and the EDC from my spares red car into the blue P38, the theory being, that regardless whether the instrument pack worked, they should be able to communicate with each other in their new surroundings.

They were not able to communicate.
Exact same behaviour as before, unable to establish communications with the EDC.

So from that, it would seem that the problem lies elsewhere?

I'm thinking I might trace every single wire going from BECM to the EDC.

He had another thought, that it could be the module that sits on the injection pump, if that was blown it might explain the 'no rev' sitation. But it wouldnt explain the broken communications.



So, thats an update!

In a few days the car will be sent off to a P38 specialist that lives about 40 miles from here. I would like to try investigate further before that happens.

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ned_ said:

Hi Wammers,

The car is still in pieces, I have to re-assemble it later this evening.

From memory:

Nanocom can access:

BECM
HEVAC,
EAS,
auto transmission ECU,
ABS


Nanocom cannot access:

some of the airbags but not all,
Cannot read instruments when the engine is on,
Cannot read EDC ecu


I just noticed the 2 connectors on the passenger side footwell are corroded also.
I will probably cut and solder them tonight. I will seal up the scuttle panel with silicone, soon.

I think my primary mission is to trace every wire that goes from the BECM to the EDC, checking for continuity and searching for broken wires.
Does that sound logical?

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ned_ said:

Cheers man, I covered those ones already, so those are sorted. He reckoned there was more, but I looked and didn't see any.

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