Bosch Kts 500 Card Driver
CompanyAbout UsPorsche 9268 LH and EZKThe original diagnostic tool. This device was used to diagnose Porsche 928.This device is no longer in production.Porsche 9288/Bosch KTS-300 AKA HammerThis second generation tool was used on C2, C4, and 968. The KTS-300 uses card modules for different makes of vehicles.
Bosch Kts 500 Card Driver Manual
Help please.The Floor of the year back I have bought IBM T23 with card KTS500, version of the program 2008/1, driver on KTS card in he did not stand. 2 ports PCMCIA were an unidentified device.
Several days back at diagnostics of the car computer stopped and happened to its reboot. Now when start the program on diagnostics she gives the report on that that necessary to connect the diagnostic cable. Beside my friend Toshiba 8000 c program 2006/2, I checked beside it its card, card works. I have a Tecra 8000 with win 98SE on it and 2007/1 working with the kts500 PCMCIA card.Originally Bosch sold these with an ISA adaptor and that would work with any desktop PC that had an ISA slot.
They were a difficult thing to set up as the card wasn't plug n play. You had to make sure that the IRQs were reserved in the BIOS, that the card was jumpered for those IRQs, and that the software was using those IRQs. I think it dated back to the Windows 3.1 way of doing thing.Then Bosch bought out the KTS tablet PC thing which had the PCMCIA slot. This had Windows 95 on it with a special Bosch shell. They had a special recovery partition and if you ever messed it up then you could press Fsomething and it would totally rebuild itself. If the harddisk ever went out though you were stuffed.The thing is that this special Bosch tablet PC had special PCMCIA chips and special windows drivers. If you put the card in another laptop it wouldn't recognise it.
In fact I don't think that the card even conformed with the full PCMCIA spec.Then someone realised that the Compaq Armada M700 used a similar PCMCIA chipset. In fact once I took an image of the Bosch tablet and put it on a M700 and it worked. But I couldn't upgrade it so was stuck at ESI 2005 or something.Then someone came up with the tosktssetup for the Tecra 8000 and that's why I have one of those. I actually paid for the tosktssetup at the time. I don't think it's even a proper driver but more a patch for something else. Maybe the Tecra PCMCIA chips are a bit like that old Bosch tablet PC.
I think it only supported 2007/1 which is what I have.The ESI business model was always that Bosch forced you to upgrade every 3 months. Thay didn't want to support the old kts500 anymore though, and it doesn't support PWM, VPW, Canbus etc. They couldn't exactly kill the KTS500 users machines though, so they bought out the 'final' version which I think was simply 2007/1 without the 3 month timeout, so it would just work forever until the hardware died.I would love to try the final version on my Tecra but never managed to get a a 'final' DVD.So. My Tecra is dual boot. Win98SE normal partition and Win98SE with Bosch ESI on it.I got it working with ESI and then booted into the other normal Win98SE and made a giant Winzip file of everything on the ESI partition (except the io.sys file).Every three months I have to boot the normal Win98SE, knock the clock back to Jan 1st 2007, delete all the files in the ESI partition (except io.sys) and then unpack the zip file.Then I'm good for another 3 months.io.sys must be in the boot partition for MSDOS or it won't boot. If you ever delete/rewrite it then it won't be in the boot partition which is why you mustn't touch it.It's a real sledge hammer approach as probably there are only a couple of files somewhere then probably need to be rewritten but I don't know what they are so I have to replace the entire OS.It's still a good tool for older cars though.
I have a Tecra 8000 with win 98SE on it and 2007/1 working with the kts500 PCMCIA card.Originally Bosch sold these with an ISA adaptor and that would work with any desktop PC that had an ISA slot. They were a difficult thing to set up as the card wasn't plug n play. You had to make sure that the IRQs were reserved in the BIOS, that the card was jumpered for those IRQs, and that the software was using those IRQs. I think it dated back to the Windows 3.1 way of doing thing.Then Bosch bought out the KTS tablet PC thing which had the PCMCIA slot.
This had Windows 95 on it with a special Bosch shell. They had a special recovery partition and if you ever messed it up then you could press Fsomething and it would totally rebuild itself. If the harddisk ever went out though you were stuffed.The thing is that this special Bosch tablet PC had special PCMCIA chips and special windows drivers. If you put the card in another laptop it wouldn't recognise it.
In fact I don't think that the card even conformed with the full PCMCIA spec.Then someone realised that the Compaq Armada M700 used a similar PCMCIA chipset. In fact once I took an image of the Bosch tablet and put it on a M700 and it worked. But I couldn't upgrade it so was stuck at ESI 2005 or something.Then someone came up with the tosktssetup for the Tecra 8000 and that's why I have one of those. I actually paid for the tosktssetup at the time. I don't think it's even a proper driver but more a patch for something else. Maybe the Tecra PCMCIA chips are a bit like that old Bosch tablet PC.
I think it only supported 2007/1 which is what I have.The ESI business model was always that Bosch forced you to upgrade every 3 months. Thay didn't want to support the old kts500 anymore though, and it doesn't support PWM, VPW, Canbus etc.
They couldn't exactly kill the KTS500 users machines though, so they bought out the 'final' version which I think was simply 2007/1 without the 3 month timeout, so it would just work forever until the hardware died.I would love to try the final version on my Tecra but never managed to get a a 'final' DVD.So. My Tecra is dual boot. Win98SE normal partition and Win98SE with Bosch ESI on it.I got it working with ESI and then booted into the other normal Win98SE and made a giant Winzip file of everything on the ESI partition (except the io.sys file).Every three months I have to boot the normal Win98SE, knock the clock back to Jan 1st 2007, delete all the files in the ESI partition (except io.sys) and then unpack the zip file.Then I'm good for another 3 months.io.sys must be in the boot partition for MSDOS or it won't boot.
If you ever delete/rewrite it then it won't be in the boot partition which is why you mustn't touch it.It's a real sledge hammer approach as probably there are only a couple of files somewhere then probably need to be rewritten but I don't know what they are so I have to replace the entire OS.It's still a good tool for older cars though.Hi,I am finding out the hard way about installing the KTS card into a PC through the ISA slot, I cannot get Windows to recognize the ISA card never mind the KTS card. Can you offer any advice, this is my first experience with ISA slots.Regards.
I need some info about KTS 500c interface. I have newer KTS550 but my friend recently gave me comp tower (does not work) but it has KTS 500 card in it self. I was wondering what do I need to test if it works?
Ok, i will plug it on a new com, but do I need something else to see if it is alive or dead? KTS 550 is totally different, you just plug USB.Please give me some info.Thanks. StephenwolfKTS 500 Card working With PCMCIA ISA Adapter Only win 98 or 2000 Final Old PChttp://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7511/p423withcutawaysunburst.jpg.