First off I will say I am not the best computer person out there, so I may have almost thrown my laptop out the window over a simple problem.

Anyway, I have a laptop with Vista on it, when I first started flashing my evo I had some kind of problem (don't really remeber what it was) and my buddy had a older laptop with XP on it, he just let me use that laptop since he had no use for it, it has worked perfect for tuning/logging, and installing the patchs.

He got a new job, and needs the old lappy back, so I need to get the vista computer working.

My main problem is with installing the patchs in my rom. I do it the same exact way on both computers, it works on the XP computer but not on the Vista computer.

I go here, C:\Program Files\OpenECU\EcuFlash\rommetadata go to the EVO folder and find my rom ID, which is 88590015. On the XP computer I would right click my rom, open the rom with notepad, paste the patch where it needed to be and save it. Open ecuflash and the new boxs would be there.

On the vista computer I right click my rom and open with notpad, paste the patch and save it no problem, but when I open ecuflash nothing is there. If I go back to my rom and right click and open it with notepad everything I just pasted and saved is still there. But if I just double click on the rom it opens in another program that I am not sure, but the stuff I saved in there is NOT there. I am sure this is my problem I just have no idea what to do about it.

Help me so I can tune my car on speed density!!

Fathouse

 

check and make sure it didn't try to save the file as something other than an .xml

just a guess.

 

I had this same problem and has to find some ways around it. I remembered mine giving me an issue about saving the changes. If I remember correctly I did something weird like taking my ROM file and putting it on my desktop, editing it, and saving it. Then I put the edited ROM back into the appropriate folder. Mine kept wanting to change it with XML editor instead of notepad. Sorry if I'm just confusing you. I'm sure one of the Ecuflash gurus will come to the rescue.

 

Fathouse, I JUST ran into the same issue last night. I was testing the new laptop with some ROM changes and the exact same issues came up. I'm going to take a look at it today when I get some time. Your experience is obviously not just you. I expected it to inherit the changes I made, but nothing doing. I even put it in the base file and it didn't work. Hopefully it's something like what Import Junky mentioned. Modifying it in a 'permissions allowed' folder and then moving it back. I haven't had time to look at it yet, but maybe in an hour or so.

 

either notepad saved it with a file extension '.txt' appended to the file name or EcuFlash is looking in a different location than where you think your rom is.

 

Vista doesn't really give good indications of 'saved properly' and not. Every time I've had a problem, it's dealt with security and permissions in the folders.

 

Have you disabled the user account control. I could not modify the files unless I opened it in administrator and even then it would not display the patched info. Now that I have disable the user account control I can easily modify the files. Hope this helps.

 

Can you give me a quick walk thur on how I disable the user account control? I took me like two hours to figure out how to disable some other stuipd control before I even had permission to save the file.

I mean its my computer, I paid for it, how dare it tell me I don't have permission to do something!!


Tom, Thanks, I hope we get it figure out soon.

Fathouse

 

At least you guys got the stuff somewhat working on your Vista laptops... I still can't get **** to work

 

Go to your control panel on the start menu.

Click on security settings. On the right hand side will be a menu that says User accounts and family settings.

Click on User accounts.

Click on User account control (uac) and disable it. ( the computer will say it is not recommended but do it anyway.

This will allow you to change your .xml files using notepad etc.

 

Dude, that worked!!!!!!!

YOU RULE!!!

Thanks

Fathouse

 

No problem. I have learned so much from the evom community it feels good to help someone else.