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Bricked my "Tactrix 2.0"?


darkchief1

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I recently purchased what I assumed to be a Tactrix 2.0, but upon further research it appears as if it may be a fake. On the barcode for the serial it has "1234", not a legit serial code. Anyways, I plugged it in to my macbook at home and lights turned on on the device, yay. Took it to work to see what windows sees and it saw it straight away as a COM port, double yay. I installed ECUFlash and it installed the driver required for the Tactrix 2.0, and I saw it change in device manager from COM to some more specific device which was good. I decided to unplug it and replug it in just to make sure it was working fine, and now the red, blue and yellow lights don't turn on and it doesn't appear in device manager. I have tried it on another computer and have also tried it on another Mac. Did I fry it or something? Did those drivers that installed with ECUFlash do something because it wasn't a legitimate Tactrix? Should I go back to the seller and see what he says? Really annoyed that I am potentially out a bit of money and any help would be appriciated! 

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Not sure but I know some USB to serial drivers brick copied devices.
 

Heaps of USB to serial converters from China have warnings about only using their drivers. Some official drivers spyware to detect copy devices and send back data. 
 

Other option is when the driver is installed the lights default to off. 

 

 treat it as faulty and ask for another one or refund

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I grabbed it off TradeMe and it came with setup DVDs, but I thought to grab the latest drivers and software as one should. The fact it isn't detected by the computer anymore is a bit of a worry, regardless of light status. I will test it after work on my car to see if it gets power at all because I watched a video last night about how it didn't get power from a computer but did when connected to a car, so maybe the same thing will happen to my car. Guy I bought it off said no offers for a refund when I was asking questions on the auction, so I am not sure if I can get a refund or not.

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Nah sadly this was second hand. I didn't realise it was (probably) fake either which is a bit annoying, as I was under the assumption that it was legitimate. Will try it on my car tonight and see what happens. If it can still somehow work with the computer while plugged into the car then that will be fine I guess

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