

If you were running on battery, if possible, try doing a scan with your laptop plugged into AC power from your house/garage. Did anything change there? Anything that hogs CPU, like a virus scanner, or anything that messes with power management/CPU state can affect the real-time responsiveness needed by the vehicle diagnostic protocols. I know it's not what you want to hear, but it seems likely to be something localized to your workstation. Also, from what I understand, the FW update was issued primarily to fix a very specific K-line comms bug that shouldn't affect your CAN-based vehicle. I've used my HUC interface with at least three cars, one CAN and two K-line without incident, and I'm on Windows 8.1 as well. It's been in the Betas for a couple months, and the older 12.12.3 release for several weeks. USB wire has been improved to be more flexible, more durable.Click to expand.Anything is possible, but if the FW update broke things, I would think there would be more complaints on the forum.

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