Since I have a MS42 motor, I had one of those OBD connectors under my hood and OBD2 under my dash. Bridging these pins allowed me to communicated on all pins under the dash by doing this mod to my OBD in my engine. Feel free to PM me for help. I just reinstalled all tools with ease.

 

Hi Bali, I did and went nuts for a whole day but got it working! Thanks for all the knowledge you have posted over here.

 

What was your issue in the end?

 

Use these instructions posted by @Bali for installing BMW Standard Tools. You may just need to adjust the USB port used and speed of communication.
How to Install BMW Standard Tools

 

I had set to COM1 and Latency down to 1, I’ll try and reinstall software

 

It's a different switch, but the wiring is the same or should be. If not, rewire to the correct pin position as shown in the video. Hope this helps.

 

I have some free time today if you want to do a remote session. I can fix it.
Start a private conversation with me to get that going.

 

I’m going to delete all the current tools and files that I have installed and I’m going to follow your steps first. If not I’ll shoot you a PM if all else fails.

 

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but how is it fixed?
I have INPA working, but get the same faults as OP.

 

I have INPA working, but get the same faults as OP.

Please read this post.

How to Install BMW Standard Tools

This thread describes how I install and configure BMW Standard Tools, the suite of BMW software that includes INPA, NCS Expert, WinKFP, Tool32. I have my own custom way of doing this that is the shortest and simplest steps I could figure out. This set up is for E46 only. What is needed...

www.e46fanatics.com

 

I have the newer model with an M54 and the only port is inside the cabin.

Need to check a few more things because if I remember correctly I also cannot read out the airbag or cluster module. Maybe need to tick the switch over to the other side..

 

Yea good question Alex..

I think it was a sum of problems. As I mentioned before, I could not get into e.g. the instrument cluster so I changed the switch position which helped to access it.

Did a complete wipe of all the software (which I got from another user) and reinstalled the software provided by Bali.

After that, made sure that the COM settings showed the same port (1).

Then NCS expert, I created a new (expert) profile and made sure all the checks are checked. I had one box not ticked which resulted in no rewrite of the .TRC file so the coding did not got written over.

If I can find NCS dummy, that would make life easier but that is not a mandatory software to be fair since my German is quite okay and there is a lot of info online about the codings.

 

If I can find NCS dummy, that would make life easier but that is not a mandatory software to be fair since my German is quite okay and there is a lot of info online about the codings.

Bali's BMW Standard tools should've included NCS dummy.