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Old Sat, May 12th, 2012, 04:39 PM
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The screen is frozen. I disconnected the tuner and the truck starts on I assume the stock tune since I set back to stock before I downloaded the new tunes. Any ideas?
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Old Sat, May 12th, 2012, 05:52 PM
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Will -

If the tuning did not complete, you're still at stock. The "hangup" you describe sounds to me like it could be a weakening battery - one that still has enough power to crank the engine but that doesn't have enough for the programmer to generate the 18V signal needed to tell the PCM to accept a new tune.

If you could put the battery on a charger for a while before retrying the tuning process it may then work. And, if you have a charger capable of providing a "trickle charge" (usually 2 Amps or less), I'd just leave it connected while you try programming.

Sorry to hear about you being out of work. That has to really add to your stress level right now. Hope things turn around for you soon.

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Old Sat, May 12th, 2012, 06:04 PM
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Battery is good. I've been loading and changing tunes in the truck for a few days now and it's worked fawlessly. The tuner is locked on a green screen and non responsive. Pegasus won't recognize it any more either. I recall this same thing happening the last time I had downloaded tunes and Bill had to remote desktop my tuner to get it back up to speed. I think this may be the case again.

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Thanks Jack, and thanks Bill!

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Old Sat, May 12th, 2012, 08:15 PM
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OK Will -

Hope Bill gets back to you soon. It sounds like something corrupted in the firmware then and, Bill seems to have to fix that "hands on".

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Just letting you know Bill the truck passed inspection on the stock tune. I got a good amount of windshield time in this past weekend plus towing the boat to the lake and back today (caught a mess of crappie, fish fry will be good) so I ran her up to get her rechecked and passed. Once we get my tuner unlocked and the tunes reloaded all will be good once again. Tuner froze up upon trying to load the updated tunes into my truck and it is stuck on the green screen (see previous posts).

Let me know how you want to handle this. I've got nothing but free time, when I'm not fishing, that is. lol

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You could fire up Pegasus, plug the programmer in and do the custom file download. Sounds like something didn't go right last time you got tunes.
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Truck's been running fine on the stock tune. Of course I miss the custom tunes. :P
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