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    Quote Originally Posted by DocZ28 View Post
    Yesterday I was re-flashing, a PCM, and have a issue with it, after the file was loaded, I can´t start the car, so I check if it was done rigth cuz I´m affraid after what happen with my pcm. And the curious thin was that Efilive softwere said me that PCM was in an unknow state, I did try to reflash and full reflash with no succes. I was worried so I did not save any screen or bugs what I remember is that said something about PCMLocks.ini.

    After I try several times, I get connected with the pcm and do a reflash, after that I have no problems.

    My question is What is the possibility that my divice is failing? I will reinstall the software and test or could be my windows 7 the problem.
    mine was doing it in v8 so i went back to 7.5 ,it would say theres a lock or some thing
    try using 7.5 if your using v8

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    Mine is V1, and using V7.5. I´m will reinstall and check again, What is sure is that I´m not confident when I do a reflash, I did change the two cables, So I´m affraid that the divice could be damaged, but those things are not supposed to fail rigt?

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    Can you post the text that appears during flashing...

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    What year/model is your car...?

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    Quote Originally Posted by joecar View Post
    Can you post the text that appears during flashing...
    Can´t remember all but here is what I recall

    Auto detect pcm
    PCM Detected
    Seed 7$... something
    Initializing 1 of 4
    Initializing 2 of 4
    Initializing 3 of 4
    Initializing 4 of 4
    Abort
    Flash memory can not be errased

    This happend after I did a reflash. and every time I try was the same.
    After that I try to do full reflash and a recover pcm and always I get the response that PCM was in an unknow state.

    As I saw info in the pcm like vin, os, I give a shot to download the file tune, and that did work, after that I have no more problems, So I do not what happen. Next time I will save the messages.

    My car is 00 Camaro with 02 OS and my pcm is dead, I have to purchase another one. And this last one Is a 02 Transam

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    Quote Originally Posted by DocZ28 View Post
    Abort
    Flash memory can not be errased
    That error can happen when the battery voltage is too low or too high. Make sure you have a good quality battery and that is fully charged before you attempt to flash the PCM.
    Reading will still usually work even if the battery voltage is too low/high. Flashing requires the battery voltage to be very close to 12V which is needed to erase the ECM's memory.

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    Update...

    New PCM flashed and working. I didn´t have any problems since last time.
    I bought a PCM 12200411 and works good, well to be honest I don´t see any difference.

    Thanks for your help

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    Quote Originally Posted by DocZ28 View Post
    Update...

    New PCM flashed and working. I didn´t have any problems since last time.
    I bought a PCM 12200411 and works good, well to be honest I don´t see any difference.

    Thanks for your help
    So the previous PCM was bad...?

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    Gone bad. It is empty

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