Special MB Star C3 works only on IBM T30

Yesterday, I browsed the forum of benzworld.org, and there had a MB Star C3 user that has some problem on this Mb Star C3. The post as the following:

Guys,

I have bought the Star diagnosis unit from china/hong kong for 550USD. My findings of the unit however are terrible. I ordered it without the laptop as I already have the correct notebook. The unit I received looked very professional as you can see in the pictures! It even looks like an original Actia unit, but it isnt!I could not get this cheap chinese knock off to work. I wasted more than a full weekend on this without any comms going to my car.

The preinstalled hard drive I received was also full of virusses. I had to remove these and repair windows to get it going. There was no keygen for the WIS and DAS software. After many hours of searching I eventually found a keygen on some dodge russian site… which worked! After that I could get the WIS and DAS started but I could not get the star unit to communicate with my com port 2. Again after many hours spent, my computers com port 2 tested fine, I’ve tested it with other hardware using com 2 which works like a charm. I’ve even triend an external USB-2-serial converter. Without any luck. If you plug the star unit into you car the Green LED lights up on the star, so that works. When I try the compact port tester it gives random errors. (its only when you plug out the unit from your com port that you dont get random errors but just the same error)

Actually, the problem is very easy to solved, because this Mb Star C3 have two kinds of versions, one is Mb Star C3 Pro with seven cables fit all computer for Benz truck and car, another is Mb Star C3 Pro Mercedes Benz Star Pro with seven cables fit IBM T30. Although they are very similar, there have an obvious different place that the second version works only on IBM T30 model.

The chinese programm is based on the IBM T30 and without this it will not function properly. So this is where the user’s problem comes in.

Conclusion: The second version of Mb Star C3

 requires the IBM hard drive and the IBM T30 computer to operate the software correctly with the multiplexer on line. So the customers should decide which version that you want to get before purchase, which can avoid to waste a log of time and effort for nothing.