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Fri, February 12th, 2021, 06:20 PM
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I guess I may have gotten ahead of myself here. I have a 2002 F250 at work (obviously not a 50 state emissions truck but I can get it warm first) but I threw a few of the said calibrations on a Hydra yesterday and I was hoping to verify the problem on Monday when I go back - since I didn't know when I'd get in touch with you. Now Hydraflash doesn't operate so I can erase it and I get some error message.
Anyhoo...I know it's 6:00 PM where you are. Have a great weekend! 
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Fri, February 12th, 2021, 08:45 PM
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You know, I just did a whole bunch of thinking and trying to remember just how convoluted and complicated the process used to be to get Phoenix chips shipped out of here. I had to dig way back in the dusty corners of my mind for it.
I might be missing a few steps but I remember it was a tedious process! 1. Log into remote computer. 2. Get to the order forms and write down the customer vehicle information. I had literally FOUR full-size notebooks full of names, email addresses, and calibration information; each one took up four lines of wide-ruled front and back - so long as nothing custom was needed. No security worries though as every one of them was used to start a fire in the woodstove. 3. Go to the 32k files and dig out appropriate calibrations. If it happened to be a custom tune, it was written at that time. 4. Load them into the utility that turned them into Phoenix-size calibrations. 5. Save an e-mail of each calibration in the drafts folder along with a copy of the invoice and build sheet and then log off of the remote desktop. [Ahhhhh. No more click latency due to remote desktopping after this point] 6. Open email on my computer at home and save the calibrations. 7. Open PhoenixFlash. 8. Spend 5:52 per chip erasing and programming. The most difficult part here is that I found that multi-tasking the computer during the process would result in errors and there is no continuing with a botched programming session.....start all over (usually ftom position 5 or 6 because, well Murphy). Sometimes the errors would happen anyway and sometimes I'd forget if I changed the position or not before programming the next position. I'd know as soon as I hit the spacebar! Long beep and the red "Programming Error" message. SHIIIIIIII!!! 9. Package the chip. I got good at folding small flat-rate boxes! 10. Repeat. Although I did manage to save time by doing large batches of calibrations at once and then emailing numerous customers' calibrations in 2-3 emails. You know, those were good times although I do like getting greasy and dirty just a touch more than staring at a computer screen.  
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Fri, February 12th, 2021, 10:34 PM
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Bill Cohron - The Mad Doctor   Power Hungry Performance - The ORIGINAL in Ford performance tuning... Since 1997! (678) 890-1110 www.gopowerhungry.com - Home of the Hydra Chip, Minotaur Tuning Software, and the new Orion Reflash System for Navistar! Bring back  Windows™ XP and 7.  Windows™ Vista and Windows™ 8 is a pain in my a$$!  Windows™ 10 is only slightly less annoying!  Windows™ 11 is garbage!  Much to my surprise, I'm actually quite enjoying Linux! 
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Fri, February 12th, 2021, 10:43 PM
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Wait two minutes and I'll have screenshots.
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Fri, February 12th, 2021, 10:47 PM
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Here you go.
It worked yesterday. Last edited by cleatus12r; Fri, February 12th, 2021 at 10:59 PM.
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Sat, February 13th, 2021, 10:43 AM
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What OS are you running? XP? Win 7? 32 Bit or 64 Bit?
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Bill Cohron - The Mad Doctor Power Hungry Performance - The ORIGINAL in Ford performance tuning... Since 1997! (678) 890-1110 www.gopowerhungry.com - Home of the Hydra Chip, Minotaur Tuning Software, and the new Orion Reflash System for Navistar! Bring back Windows™ XP and 7. Windows™ Vista and Windows™ 8 is a pain in my a$$! Windows™ 10 is only slightly less annoying! Windows™ 11 is garbage! Much to my surprise, I'm actually quite enjoying Linux!
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Sat, February 13th, 2021, 10:45 AM
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I blame Cloudflare. Why not?
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Sat, February 13th, 2021, 10:46 AM
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XP....
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 Microsoft, being the b!tch that it is, has forced me to do something I didn't want to do. Eliminating support for older OS's. The latest version of Visual Studio (VS 2017) no longer directly supports successful installation of software on Windows XP systems, especially on 32 Bit versions. The new software requires an upgrade of the .NET Framework library to v4.6. Unfortunately, this does not support Windows XP. I'm going to see if there's any way I can actually go back to the VS 2013 version and restore support for XP. I'll let you know what I come up with.
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Bill Cohron - The Mad Doctor Power Hungry Performance - The ORIGINAL in Ford performance tuning... Since 1997! (678) 890-1110 www.gopowerhungry.com - Home of the Hydra Chip, Minotaur Tuning Software, and the new Orion Reflash System for Navistar! Bring back Windows™ XP and 7. Windows™ Vista and Windows™ 8 is a pain in my a$$! Windows™ 10 is only slightly less annoying! Windows™ 11 is garbage! Much to my surprise, I'm actually quite enjoying Linux!
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