Flashing DTA S-Series

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Jon K
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Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by Jon K »

Flashing Software Link: http://www.dtafast.co.uk/Downloads/Downloads_Index.htm

Firmware Download Link: http://www.dtafast.co.uk/Downloads/Downloads_Index.htm

Press flash button, power on ecu, release flash button.

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Select file to upload/flash

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Hit program and verify. This can be slow, and might appear as if nothing is happening.

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Flash complete

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Power up incorrectly, or without hitting flash button. ie...no comms to ecu for flashing.

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FrankCorrado
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by FrankCorrado »

Right! I forgot about that, it was on the old forums and it did help me the first time. :)

For those without a flash button, either ask mefmotrosports (Martin) for a REALLY NICE cable with flash button (much less expensive than DTA's) or you have to short PINs uhm, 8 and 13, guys?? From which plug, again? That is a little more complex than hitting the flash button and releasing (usually 1sec after powering up ECU).
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by Bollah »

I'm looking at doing this (as from my other thread) and have had my comms cable apart and solder a wire from pin 8 to pin 13, just need to get a push button and I'm hoping to give this a go soon enough
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by Jon K »

Bollah - in a pinch, I have shorted the two wires without a button. Just make sure to tape everything up so it doesn't short to "other" things, but you don't TOTALLY need a button.
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by grahamb »

If you get

GetBlankBank failed.Flash:
Verify: Invalid block section

warnings when ST10 tries to load the monitor, its probably because when you installed the ST10 software, and it warned that later versions of some of the DLL's already existed on the hard drive, "do you want to overwrite?" try selecting Yes instead of No and see if the software works. I chose not to overwrite, and the monitor wouldn't load. I then uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled, and overwrote the files, and it worked.

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Sonny Snepvangers
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by Sonny Snepvangers »

When i try to flash i get this error:

*LOAD MONITOR-->ERROR
Description: InitMonitor failed.
Monitor: BSL: Fail before sending all the 0x20 first bytes.
Com: Receive: Timeout or Lost of data

Can someone please tel me what to do?
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by stevieturbo »

Do you have a flash switch enabled on your comms cable ?

Sounds like the flash tool has not connected to the ecu.
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by Sonny Snepvangers »

No i don't have a flash cable so this is what i did:

Turn on Ecu, en then wire pin 8 and 13 to echother , en then release them again.
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by ignitionautosport »

it must be held together while turning it on - after is too late.
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Re: Flashing DTA S-Series

Post by Sonny Snepvangers »

Ok so it must be

1. Connect pin 8 & 13 on the ECU side
2. Turn on ECU
3. Disconnect pin 8 &13
4. Start op Flash program
5. Connect to ECU with flash program
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