
Get those out of the way before moving onto the next section.ġ) Plug in your Mini-VCI cable and wait for windows to recognize it and load the drivers.Ģ) Open the device manager (Win Key+X then select Device Manager) and open the node “Ports (COM & LPT)” and double click the “USB Serial Port (COM?)” device, and then go to the “Driver” tab. To install them and enable them on your devices you do the following:ġ) Under the ftdibus folder, right click the ftdibus.inf file and click install, and accept any warnings that appear.Ģ) Under the ftdiport folder, right click the ftdiport.inf file and click install, again accept any warnings that appear. I’ve found that these drivers don’t always work, so I manually installed the drivers supplied in the ZIP linked above.

Now, my version of Windows (Win 10 Creators Update – 1709) detected and loaded the drivers for the Mini VCI cable automatically. In fact, if you’ve done everything else on your 64bit system, check this first, and if those files aren’t in that folder try doing this step and test Techstream, it may just work.

If those files aren’t in those folders, then Techstream won’t work with 64bit Windows and the Mini VCI cable. That’s one of the key steps to getting this working. I’ve found that every time I’ve installed the VCI drivers from the MSI file, it never created those folders, and put those two files in there. When you extract the file it will contain the following contents.ġ) Create some new folders under your C:\Program Files (x86) folder and copy some files there.Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\XHorse ElectronicsĬ:\Program Files (x86)\XHorse Electronics\MVCI Driver for TOYOTA TISĢ) Copy the files FirmwareUpdateTool and MVCI32.dll from the linked ZIP file to the “MVCI Driver for TOYOTA TIS” folder. Make sure you copy and paste the entire link and doesn’t parse the URL correctly.įor your own safety, feel free to verify the file is safe from viruses using or any other of the various online virus testing tools. Grab the file above, it contains the necessary Mini-VCI 64 bit files.

The guide below comes from a very helpful Australian forum.ġ) You know what you’re doing around computers and have the basic necessary skills to create directories, copy files, and import registry keys.Ģ) You download the file linked below (or have a Mini-VCI CD with the contents roughly matching the included files)ģ) Your Techstream version doesn’t matter as far as I can tell, I’m using V12 (search v12 download on our blog).Ĥ) Windows 10, 64bit (other 64 bit versions, 7, 8, etc should all work too)ĥ) Tested on Mini-VCI cable J2534 with firmware 1.4.1 (should also work on newer cables too) here shares some approaches to set it up on Win10 64bit. Many people have trouble loading Mini VCI Toyota Techstream software and driver on Windows 10 64bit system.
