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Turning Lexia into English

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Hi
I have a Chinese Lexia clone and I've lost the CD that came with it. yesterday I've downloaded Lexia4, installed it and it appears to be in Swedish or Norvegian. could you help me and guide me how to change its language setting so that it will be in English?
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On mine on the far left top once it starts there's a down arrow and you can change the language from there. I seem to recall there's something else you can adjust an "emergency lang setting" or suchlike although I don't have it here to see where said quick setting is. It may be a key combination but I suspect not.
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As far as I know you can't change the language after installation. All versions of the Diagbox installer I've seen ask you to choose the language at the beginning of installation.

Do you know what version of Diagbox you had originally ? A lot of clone interfaces can only go up to Diagbox 5.29 without having the interface re-flashed.

Your best bet might be to try the downloads found here:

http://www.auto-professionals.co.uk/sho ... hp?tid=196" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You want the files "Update DiagBox 35 dep files 2.doc" and "Rar and install CODE.txt", in the first file are download links for many different versions of Diagbox and updates.

If your interface came with Diagbox 6.xx go for the 6.30 download. If not you'll need to install Diagbox 5 and update it no further than 5.29.
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The interface that I've bought came with Lexia ver 3something. as far as I understand the link given by Mandrake is to a software called Diagbox. can I use it with the interface? is it compatible? from your experience - is it better than the Lexia? can it work under Win7? because the Lexia only works under XP.
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atr wrote:The interface that I've bought came with Lexia ver 3something. as far as I understand the link given by Mandrake is to a software called Diagbox. can I use it with the interface? is it compatible? from your experience - is it better than the Lexia? can it work under Win7? because the Lexia only works under XP.
Diagbox is basically an all Cit/pug car solution. Any newer cars will use Diagbox alone, and for older cars it will fall back to the bundled version of Lexia/pp2000. It's still better to use WinXP to avoid any issues, especially of you have 64bit.
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As Ben says, Diagbox is the new tool for later cars but it also includes a bundled copy of Lexia which is launched when you select cars that need it, such as the Xantia or early C5's.

How old is your Lexia interface atr ? And was it obtained through ebay from overseas ?

If its an older chinese clone interface then it probably won't work with Diagbox 6.xx, in which case the latest version of Diagbox that will work is 5.29. There are download links for Diagbox 5.xx and its updates in the same word document. (Use 5.02 to 5.20 and 5.20 to 5.29 rather than the multitude of small updates)

It's up to you whether you want to try diagbox 6.xx, it will either work (in which case you can update fully to 6.35) or it won't work, in which case you'll be forever stuck at 5.29, but if you only need Lexia for older cars thats probably sufficient.

As for Windows 7, I believe that the latest versions of Diagbox do have Windows 7 drivers including 64 bit however I don't know if Diagbox 5.29 does.

Also in that word document is a file "driver install diagbox" which includes a separate driver installer for the interface which includes both xp and 32/64 bit windows 7 drivers - I don't know for sure but I believe that if you install this driver package your interface will work on Windows 7 with any version of Diagbox.

Try installing the driver package first and if it looks ok in device manager (ACTIA device with no yellow exclamation mark etc) with the interface plugged in you should be ok in Windows 7.
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Mine said XP only. A bit of virtual testing confirmed it also worked on Win7 Starter (which I currently use as that's whats on the netbook) and Win7Pro without issue. Note I only tested the 32bit versions.

It did not work with Win2K which was a shame as it was a bit quicker, however it did work with 2KAdvServer (not normal Server) for some odd reason, although I have that as a virtual machine for other purposes anyway, perhaps it was something in there or something else I added.

Anyway I'd recommend XP if practical although as I say mine (I'd have to check versions, I've not updated it so tis a bit out of date no doubt) it did work fine with 7, albeit a bit sluggish. Recommended on a netbook only if you are willing to up the ram to 2GB if said book only has 1GB (I did and killed my warranty but did not care) as the improvement generally was substantial.

Diagbox definitely has a lang choice on the grey down arrow on the top left, although if thats for Lexia / PP as well I'm not sure. To be honest you may well find an .ini file floating around with the lang choice in it.
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Andy - have a look at that separate driver install package I mentioned, it claims to update the ACTIA device driver to support a much wider range of operating systems:

" ACTIAPnPInstaller supports following operating systems:
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows XP 64
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Vista 32
- Windows Vista 64
- Windows 7 32
- Windows 7 64"
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The problem I had with Win7 64bit, wasn't with Diagbox nor the driver, diagbox would actually work and be able to work out the VIN from the car, just Lexia would not load, and trying to run the lexia process manually, it would give an error about incorrect architecture. So I believe Lexia will only run on 32bit.
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Interesting. It might still be worth trying it again with the manually updated driver though.

Windows 7 64 bit can still run 32 bit applications, just not 32 bit device drivers. It's possible that the way Lexia communicates with the device driver is the problem, so the updated driver might help.
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Mandrake wrote:Interesting. It might still be worth trying it again with the manually updated driver though.

Windows 7 64 bit can still run 32 bit applications, just not 32 bit device drivers. It's possible that the way Lexia communicates with the device driver is the problem, so the updated driver might help.
Did think that and have humoured you, but still no joy :(
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That's a shame. Which version of Diagbox was that with ?
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Thanx for your responses and cooperation and I hope that you will be able to help me furthermore.
as per Mandrake's question - I purchased it from China about a year and a half ago. version? are you kidding? they didn't even bother to write the date on the invoice. anyhow, I'll attach pics of the labels, maybe that you'll know about it's compatibility. please notice that it was "made in france", no less!
anyhow, I can say that when I've connected it to my 2001 Xantia (2lit,16v RFV engine) it workd.the O.S that I had on my laptop was XP. as I've mentioned before, I can't find the CD that was supplied with the interface and the laptop is dead a long time ago, so I wanted to install the software on another laptop but the O.S installed on it is win7.
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That interface looks different to mine. It seems very unlikely yours will run Diagbox 6.xx then, so what I would suggest is download Diagbox 5.02 and the 5.02 to 5.20 and 5.20 to 5.29 updates, install all those, then check your device manager to see if the ACTIA device appears without errors when the interface is plugged in, if so you should be good to go, if not try downloading and installing the separate device driver installer.

If your Windows 7 is 32 bit you should be able to get it going, if its 64 bit you may be out of luck going by Ben's findings...
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I have a dumd question - according to what you wrote, my vehicle is good for the Lexia/Actia, if that's the case indeed, what sense it makes (in my case) to download the whole Diagbox - which the Lexia is a part of it? wouldn't it be better to search and download the Lexia alone? I do not intend to hook up newer models.
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