Flashing DTA S-Series

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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

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And no doubt a youtube video showing the process too would help some.
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

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stevieturbo wrote:And no doubt a youtube video showing the process too would help some.
oh absolutely, they will follow but they take a while to make. a summer job will be doing a few videos
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

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Just making sure, it says in the bottom of the guide "The software number should always be the same or higher than the firmware."

The latest software number is V80.07 and the firmware is V80.11.

I guess there will not be any issues since both was announced at the same time on the website?
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

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It's only the major version that has to be higher. The minor doesn't matter.
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

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Thanks Alex!
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

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Hi all, just been trying to reflash an older S40, V47.00, hardware V1.01. I just cant get the monitor to load at all after spending several hours trying. I had another one to do which was a V53 and it went in straight away no problem but this one just wont work.

In desperation I tried a brand new V80.11 and that worked straight away with no problems so it seems that it must be something to do with the ecu rather than my laptop or serial adapter.

Can anyone make any suggestions, I've done everything I usually do to no avail!

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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

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I just tried to save the map from this ecu so tried to connect to DTASwin but after it tries to load it tells me that I have loaded the wrong firmware for this ecu (S40 ignition only)

Thinking about it I have definitely done that earlier today, I loaded S40.hex rather than the S40i version (not realising that the ignition only ecu requires a different firmware to the full s40 firmware) so is this the reason I cant reflash it now?
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

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If you flash the wrong firmware, all you need to do is reflash the correct firmware. It makes no difference.
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by mefmotorsport »

thanks Alex, that's what I would expect but it just wont work!

the new S40 ive tried still allows the monitor to load so there's some peculiarity with this ecu.

I always struggle with this program to some extent, I,m using an 8 year old HP laptop which runs windows XP and generally eventually works with STflasher although I find its a very flakey program!

I did recently try a PC that has a proper serial port but it didnt run ST flasher any better.

I'm sure it will reflash easily on your bench PC but I'd like to be able to do this myself with confidence and success!
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

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Hi guys, just wondering if anyone has any idea about an issue with flashing the firmware on a S80 pro, I originally updated it a few years ago with Version 71 and I regularly connect to the ECU and have the latest DTASwin software on the PC. I use a recommended Serial to USB converter with button and have tried different PC's but now cannot get the flasher programme to work, it connects to the port but the monitor fails to load, saying time out or something like that. The PC I use to connect is Windows 10. I have tried all the suggestions on this section, like leaving the ECU on for 10 mins, holding the flash button longer etc, tried reloading the Flasher programme and USB converter drivers, also shutting everything off including wifi and ethernet and closing all programs, but no joy, any suggestions would be gratefully attempted, thanks.
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