[sgtpepper67]

Hello mates,
I'd kindly need your help: I have got a china cable v.12.10 with software 12.10.3 beta. It worked fine for a couple of years (always on my netbook with WindowsXp pro sp3 with wifi off + Avira AV always disabled and pc-time always set to April 1st,2013). Unfortunately, recently I have probably forgotten for some minutes my wifi on and now I always get the here attached error: "not plugged into car" warning message.
I also first noticed before this warning an odd behaviour during vcds connection to the car: initially it started giving me for more than a couple of time a "failure to communicate" error but after some attempts it started working fine receiving data from the car (ECU) but now I always have the "not plugged into car" message.
I have also to tell you that this cable since the beginning never did a complete auto-scan of my car modules but it worked by checking the individual modules... I do not know if this was also regular ?!?
Please also note that when I now connect the cable to my VW car the led turns on (green color) but if I only connect the cable to the netbook the led is off (no red or green color) though the cable appears as "Ross-Tech direct usb interface" with driver version 2.8.14.0 on device manager, is it normal?
Moreover, if I give a look to the its hardware properties, I found out the following:USB\VID_0403&PID_FA24&REV_0600
When vcds was working fine and I used to try the test button, I always got back a message similar to this one I found on the internet and here as attached picture, stating that everything was good. Now it isn't!
Any highly appreciated suggestion to fix and restore my cable?
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers..
sgtp

PS: just FYI, I will also find here as attached images both sides of the PCB of my "china" cable.