ATTN GURUS: WDS question/problem

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Feb 23, 2008 | 07:15 PM

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Fleet Mechanic

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ATTN GURUS: WDS question/problem

I am trying to revive a WDS at my dealer and have run into a problem. I have reloaded the OS and WDS software and everything works great when the PTU is docked. As soon as I undock it, the PTU will restart by itself and run scandisk then when it almost gets to the select vehicle screen it will restart again. If I turn it on while undocked it will boot normally and then restart by itself right before the select vehicle screen. I have conditioned the battery and diagnostics says it is 100% charged and has no fault codes. I would really like to get this thing going so I can move it to my bay and not have to share an IDS with 8 other techs. I know it is obsolete but it connects faster than our IDS and the touch screen is a lot better than a laptop mouse pad.

Feb 23, 2008 | 08:34 PM

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Does this use a software key and is it up to date? Are you trying it with the vehicle connector attached?

Feb 24, 2008 | 09:55 PM

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Ford discontinued the WDS in 2006 so I have the latest update up until then. I havent tried hooking it up to a vehicle but it shouldn't reboot by itself when undocking. I'm going to try the other WDS in the shop tomorrow and see if this one has a hardware problem. Thanks for the reply. BTW, have you ever used one?

Feb 24, 2008 | 10:50 PM

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Not that new of one. I used a Jaguar system (same basic machine) back in 2000 and it was very temperamental, would randomly reboot then an update made it do the same thing yours is doing.