BMW Carsoft 6.5 Software Download

Related Download Files

• BMW Carsoft 6.5 software install.pdf (1.05MB)
• BMW Carsoft 6.5 SP1 Full.iso (39.6MB)

We know BMW Carsoft 6.5 can do:
-diagnose and reset ABS light
-change odometer reading from miles to KM
-can view O2 sensor readings, timing, vanos advance, rpm, coolant temperature, airflow, injector signals etc.
-can diagnose and reset DME, Aibag, ZKE, EGS and Instrument cluster fault codes as well as initiating autolocking options, changing between display units (temp in F or C, distance in miles or kilometres etc.), viewing live data and resetting service and oil change intervals.
-ABS complete diagnostics and reset
-view real time data from your car as it runs

I bought BMW Carsoft 6.5 from VTOOLSHOP.After many weeks of reading, and struggling, finding sparse bits of information here and there, I have finally got DIS working and communicating with my E36, while using the CarSoft interface. Here is an article I wrote up to help anyone else who may be as frustrated as I was trying to get this to work:

Begin by inserting the CD or mounting the image

Navigate to the “<CD DRIVE>:\Referenz\INSTALL” folder
Launch the file “Instprog.exe”

Select English, then press Continue

Press Continue

Leave C:\ as destination drive, and press Continue

Select BMW Group Recertification programs USA and press Continue

Place check marks on the option for Complete next to EDIABAS and INPA, then press Continue

Select OBD as interface and press Continue

Press End when the installation has completed

Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder “C:\Ediabas\Bin”
Locate the file EDIABAS.INI, and open it with notepad

Locate the line for “remotehost” and “port” adjust to “192.168.68.1” and “6801” respectively

Save and close the file.
Navigate to the folder “C:\EDIABAS\Hardware\OBD” and launch the file OBDSetup.exe

A screen similar to this will appear, just press any key to close it:

Press Windows+Break to open System Properties:

Proceed to the Advanced tab, and press the Environment Variables button:

Find the Path system variable, highlight it and press Edit

At the end of the path statement, add a semicolon, and the path “C:\ediabas\bin” then press OK

Using CarSoft Interface with INPA

Attach your CarSoft interface cables to the diagnostic port under the hood, and to your computer. Open Device Manager, and make certain that your port is:
Assigned to COM1
FIFO buffers are enabled
Receive and Transmit Buffers are set to 8

Note: I have found it is necessary to run CarSoft once to get the interface to work with INPA. Perhaps this is initialize the interface, if you have more information about this, please let me know.

Start CarSoft, and perform a diagnosis of the DDE:

When the test completes you can close CarSoft. If it fails, you need to get your communications with your interface and CarSoft working before continuing:

Start INPA with the shortcut INPA(_.IPO)

Try and perform a test. ( My car is an E36 328i)

DIS with INPA interface

Now that INPA is working, we can get DIS to work with the same interface.

Open “Manage Virtual Networks” for VMWare and proceed to the Host Virtual Network Mapping tab:

Click the arrow beside VMnet1 and click Subnet:

Enter 192.168.68.0 for IP Address and press OK:

Open Windows Explorer and navigate to “C:\EDIABAS\Bin” and launch the file IFHSrv32.exe.

A windows does not open, it simply places an icon on your task bar:

Open VmWare, and edit your DIS virtual machine to only have one Ethernet adapter, and assign it to VMnet1:

Start the DIS Virtual Machine:

Click on Administration:

Under the DIS item, click on Calibrating Touch-Screen.
Enter password (dealer #) and the following screen will appear:

Enter “1” to Configure EDIABAS and press enter:
Then type “2” and press enter to run “API test” - If you see the following menu, the test is successful:

If the test was not successful, there is likely a network communication problem.

Exit the screen by typing in “0” and pressing enter. Exit the remaining screens by pressing “9” and enter.
The system will reboot.
After the system reboots, and DIS comes up again, click on Diagnosis and the following screen appears:

Select your model of car, and press the arrow to continue:

You will likely receive errors about battery power, click Ok to these:

After this, select manual to identify your vehicle:

Choose your vehicle and press the arrow to continue:

Choose a module, and press the arrow:

If you see something like this, then you have read the data from the module, and you can begin further diagnostics

A couple of notes:
-Contrary to popular suggestion, I did not need to use the diagnostic head emulaor
-Did not need to bridge ethernet connections
-Did not need to edit hosts file on either computer
-I named my laptop "diaghead" in attempt to get DIS working, this is likley not neccesarry.
-Nothing appears under "free diagnostic heads" in DIS