Well thanks for all the replies, I think I understood some of it. Anyway manged to download the EAS software (
http://www.rswsolutions.com/) which looks family with what I used previously. Would have checked it on the car but no serial port on this laptop and can not get the usb to serial cable to work.Will try and buy one whlst away. i probably could have researched futher myself but getting ready to go away always seemsso busy and slightlyworried as have a fair amount of travelling to do and it did let me down last time and had ALT fault on message centre yesterday........But I have charged up the battery since.
Just got to assume good to go.
Cheers Guys.