VIDA/DICE 2014A on a Macbook Pro - Short Guide Topic is solved

Post by **kallekula** » 24 Mar 2015, 14:14

Finally got myself a DICE unit and just got it installed and working on my Macbook Pro. I thought I would write down the steps I took so it can aid other people (including myself in the future probably) to accomplish this.
Some steps might be unnecessary but this worked for me.

Bought the VIDA/DICE from here:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/NEW-VIDA-DICE-FOR-VOLVO-Diagnostical-Tool-2012A-100-Warranty-in-stock/685864458.html
Description says that the unit ships with VIDA 2013A but title says 2014. Two weeks after placing the order I received 2014A.

Computer
Macbook Pro Late 2008, 8GB RAM, > 40GB Free disc space, MAC OSX 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion)

Software
Parallels Desktop 9 For Mac
Windows 7 PRO SP1 64bit

Installation

1. Verify that the Windows user has admin rights

2. Set Windows "User Account Control Settings" to "Never notify"

3. Copy windows/system32/tskill.exe to windows/SysWOW64/tskill.exe

4. Copy the patch "/read me/VOLVO_VIDA_2014A_Patch.exe" from the DVD and put it on the Desktop

5. Run VIDA setup. For some reason I couldn't run the installation from the DVD I received. Got a popup complaining about some "Compinfo.ini" file missing. Solution to this is to copy all contents of the DVD to the C: drive and run it from there (Where you put it is not important). So, browse to your copy's ...\Install\DVD\Vida_dvdheader\Main\. Right click on setup.exe and choose "Run as administrator"

6. During installation answer "yes"/"next to everything". Do not modify any suggestions

7. Restart computer

8. Run the VOLVO_VIDA_2014A_Patch you copied in step 4 by double clicking on it

9. Restart computer again

10. Go to your car and turn key to Pos II. Hookup DICE to Obd2 connector and computer. This is when the driver will be installed and DICE recognized in Windows Device Manager. I've watched youtube videos where it looks like the DICE driver is installed automagically when installing VIDA and that's not the case

11. Start "Vida All-In-One" and login as "1" (INTL), "2" (AME), ..., or "admin"

Thats it! Hope this can be of help to someone. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try and answer them.

Liliflower · Post by **Liliflower** » 25 Jun 2015, 00:32

great writeup!!!

opelrick · Post by **opelrick** » 13 Feb 2016, 23:32

do you think a later model/OS would work just as well ?

Post by **kallekula** » 14 Feb 2016, 11:46

opelrick wrote:do you think a later model/OS would work just as well ?

If you can run parallells it will probably work.

opelrick · Post by **opelrick** » 14 Feb 2016, 12:03

ok, thanks; any guess as to potential USB port issues ?

Post by **kallekula** » 14 Feb 2016, 13:09

opelrick wrote:ok, thanks; any guess as to potential USB port issues ?

Nah should be fine.

Post by **pkc303** » 04 Oct 2016, 14:06

Will parallel running Windows XP, and OS 10.11.6 El Capitan work? I have a 1995 T5-R.

Post by **kallekula** » 27 Oct 2016, 09:33

hmm think your car is too old for VIDA/DICE.

Post by **abscate** » 17 Dec 2016, 05:01

I'm running Win 10 on one of my MacBook Pro with Parallels and want to setup VIDA to read my 99'and 2005. Not quite sure how to proceed on this.

Post by **kallekula** » 18 Dec 2016, 13:52

abscate wrote:I'm running Win 10 on one of my MacBook Pro with Parallels and want to setup VIDA to read my 99'and 2005. Not quite sure how to proceed on this.

I think you need win 7 pro sp1.