Remember Me? Easy, effective, BMW tools install on Windows 10 64bit. Hi all, Bmw inpa windows 10 is a relatively simple way to get BMW tools installed on your machine regardless of what windows operating system you're running; it also works on 32 or 64 bit versions. I will tell you up front that this is not my method, but rather BimmerGeek's. Essentially all I've done here is learned his method and compiled some instructions on it.
In case you were wondering, I did make this DIY with his permission. Also, this method seems to be very effective and simple, "Mike's Easy BMW Tools" didn't work for me at all, and some of the other methods seem quite involved just to simply install some software. Continue at your own risk. I am not responsible in any way for any damage bmw inpa windows 10 occurs to your car bmw inpa windows 10 a result of this information and software. The bmw inpa windows 10 thing you want to do is download the BimmerGeeks Standard Tools file from his website.
The link is bimmergeeks. Once downloaded, expand the. At this point you should have several. Next, select all the. We'll need them later. The first thing you want to do here is run the executable, if you're installing o a newer version of windows you will have to run it in compatibility mode. To do this, right click the. Now you should get through the installer without any problem. Next what you want to do is go into your Bmw inpa windows 10 drive and remove several folders completely.
Now you want to replace them with the ones from the. Simply move the contents of all the. This is bmw inpa windows 10 convenient time to go in and create shortcuts for all the tools. Next find your CMD prompt application, right click, and click "run as administrator.
At this point your software should be functional. BimmerGeeks did some nice things on mine where he changed some icons and names to make it look better. I can put directions up on how to change icons if you need to know.
Let me know if you have any questions or if there are any steps that are incorrect or unclear. If there's anything I can't figure out I'm sure BimmerGeeks will have no problem with solving it. I'd like to give a big shout-out and thanks to BimmerGeeks for helping out with this, there really wasn't an easy way to get this software installed until now so I'm very appreciative of him sharing this information with us!!!!
Appreciate 8. Drifter For the CMD prompt commands, it's not bmw inpa windows 10 necessary. All you need to do is right click bmw inpa windows 10 BMW Coding Tool and run as admin when opening it for the first time. As long as those files are in the BMW Coding Tool folder, the system will auto register the necessary all files at once, without user's input. Appreciate 0. Originally Posted by BimmerGeeks. I just threw bmw inpa windows 10 coding tool OCX files in there as well since your already registering one anyway.
Lieutenant Colonel. Appreciate 1. BimmerGeeks Private First Class. Just installed using this method. Will try on car in the morning Thanks! The installer's name I assume is St? For options during setup we do not change anything like "available Hardware-Interfaces" or select the check box for "USB to serial adapter"? Com Port? Default everything, uncheck backup wizard, don't check any boxes, COM port 1. What if we are running a 32bit win 7 VM and don't have the syswow64 folder?
I assume system32? Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I can get Inpa to see both lights black. It does indeed. Thanks for the response. It turned out to be that the pins were soldered. I removed the bridge and am good to go.
Now I just need to figure out how to code out LCI tails. I'm having issues with the software. I downloaded the software from your site and have installed it following the instructions. INPA will run just fine. I bought a cable off the net that seems to connect. I am getting errors when I try to access any of the options. See images for the errors. Brief description of what I was doing when I got the errors below.
The problem if it matters for issues with the software that I am having The problem is that the ABS light and traction control light are lit on the dashboard. The computer is bmw inpa windows 10 me the front left wheel speed sensor is bad. I have put the sensor on the front right and the computer still said front left speed sensor out. I had a shop look at it, they said they tested everything in the ABS system from the wheels to the control unit and have decided it is the control unit.
I have a replacement that came out of a car nearly identical to mine with fully functioning ABS. Fourth Image: Here's the main page when I load it up with the bmw inpa windows 10 connected. Sorry the images are huge, I didn't have time to size them down. Any help with this would be awesome. I don't really want to pay to have this done when I can do it myself.
Attached Images. That helped a little. I get the same error first image. It will now read engine information though. That's an improvement. I cannot look at anything in pretty much any other section, it gives me an error similar to the first image. Is it my crappy soldering job? The cable? Thanks for your bmw inpa windows 10. Latency is set to 1, my soldering job isn't pretty It's a knockoff cable so maybe it has issues on its own. I don't know about module selection Pretty much the only area of INPA that works is the engine area.
Nothing bmw inpa windows 10 loads. Buying a new cable isn't an option right this moment. My soldering iron was having problems getting hot enough to get a good solder, so I suppose that could be it.
By modules, do you mean the options I can select? It doesn't look like it. Bmw inpa windows 10 had to Google what it looks like and I don't see it. I tried uninstalling and removing all associated files and installing anew. I bmw inpa windows 10 get the same errors as before. I'm not sure where to go from here. I suppose the next step is to replace the cable with the one you sell here?
I went ahead and ordered the cable Sunday night. I'm in the UK so it'll be here in a week or so. I'll give updates when the cable gets here. Thanks so much. I got the cable in from Bimmergeeks but when I plug it in the LED light goes red for a few seconds then turns off.