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 I know it is obsolete but it connects faster than our IDS and the touch screen is a lot better than a laptop mouse pad.

 

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

 

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?

 

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.

 

How is the board battery? That lithium is only good for about 7 years and needs to be
replaced if it has one.

 

I vote for the battery too. Even thogh it says it's charged, it isn't.

 

I think you guys are right. The other WDS in the shop works great so I think this one has a bad battery. Thanks for your replies.

 

where can I get parts for WDS ? or who fix them?