[ngnowner]

I had an old laptop laying around, orig. pentium 266 with windows ME (98) so I figured, after reading as many posts as I could that a direct scan setup would work for me. Bought one used from a member here but I can't get it to work right. Cleaned, cleaned, cleaned, and cleaned some more, the ECM pins, tried running DS from boot disk, tried all the different parallel port setting from the bios and all I get is (attached) screwy numbers at idle and as soon as I tap the gas pedal, hardware timeout. My bios port setup options are 1)normal (won't work) 2)bi-directional (won't work) 3) ECP (won't work) 4) EPP (works with screwy #'s at idle only). The connections have been checked several times, at wit's end with this thing, any help would be appreciated. thank you