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                 dieselmech_pt 
                  
                 
                
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                       Posted - 02/26/2022 :  11:18:56
                        
                      
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                       Hello,
  I've own a Mini-Pro TL866 for a few years now and use it mainly for car ecu work. Unfortunately it is unable to protect sectors on the AM29F800 series chip, so I took the plunge and bought a GQ-4x4 off Amazon with the AD019 adapter. I can read the chip and program it without and problems, but the issue I have is that I am unable to protect sectors, I can read them to see their status but the protect and unprotect buttons remain greyed out. Am I missing something ? | 
                     
                   
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                 anniel 
                      
                 
                
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                       Posted - 02/26/2022 :  14:46:46
                        
                      
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                       quote: Originally posted by dieselmech_pt
  Hello,
  I've own a Mini-Pro TL866 for a few years now and use it mainly for car ecu work. Unfortunately it is unable to protect sectors on the AM29F800 series chip, so I took the plunge and bought a GQ-4x4 off Amazon with the AD019 adapter. I can read the chip and program it without and problems, but the issue I have is that I am unable to protect sectors, I can read them to see their status but the protect and unprotect buttons remain greyed out. Am I missing something ?
 
  What software version are you using? | 
                     
                    
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                 dieselmech_pt 
                  
                 
                
                Portugal 
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                       Posted - 02/27/2022 :  08:42:27
                        
                      
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                      |  I'm using the latest version, 7.29 on my Windows 7 64 Bit Laptop | 
                     
                    
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                 anniel 
                      
                 
                
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                       Posted - 02/27/2022 :  09:39:06
                        
                      
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                       quote: Originally posted by dieselmech_pt
  I'm using the latest version, 7.29 on my Windows 7 64 Bit Laptop
 
     Cant see why the buttons would be grayed out if you select the right device. | 
                     
                    
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                 dieselmech_pt 
                  
                 
                
                Portugal 
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                       Posted - 03/06/2022 :  05:28:59
                        
                      
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                      |  I have selected the correct device and also tried a different AM29F800 chip, but still the same, I'm unable to protect the sectors sectors as it remains greyed out | 
                     
                    
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                 dieselmech_pt 
                  
                 
                
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                       Posted - 03/06/2022 :  05:39:42
                        
                      
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                       I'm unable to load a picture to show what I mean, Also it's a 29F800BT chip, not the BB version.
 
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                 anniel 
                      
                 
                
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                       Posted - 03/06/2022 :  06:17:15
                        
                      
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                       quote: Originally posted by dieselmech_pt
  I'm unable to load a picture to show what I mean, Also it's a 29F800BT chip, not the BB version.
 
 
 
  Top or bottom boot block configurations are the only differences between BB and BT suffixes. | 
                     
                    
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                 dieselmech_pt 
                  
                 
                
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                       Posted - 03/07/2022 :  11:52:20
                        
                      
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                      |  Yes i know that already, But I still have the same issue of not being able to lock the sectors that I would like to. | 
                     
                    
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                 dieselmech_pt 
                  
                 
                
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                       Posted - 04/12/2022 :  11:13:16
                        
                      
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                       Unbelievable, no one is able to help me solve this issue ? only bought the GQ4x4 because I wanted to be able to lock the AM29F800's, looks like I've wasted my money.
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                 anniel 
                      
                 
                
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                       Posted - 04/13/2022 :  04:54:48
                        
                      
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                       quote: Originally posted by dieselmech_pt
  Unbelievable, no one is able to help me solve this issue ? only bought the GQ4x4 because I wanted to be able to lock the AM29F800's, looks like I've wasted my money.
 
 
  Did you try to uninstall and reinstall the software? | 
                     
                    
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                 dieselmech_pt 
                  
                 
                
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                       Posted - 07/31/2022 :  10:51:09
                        
                      
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                       Ok, I've been away for a while with house moving etc.
  I uninstalled & reinstalled the software, installed it on a desktop system with win7/win10 64bit dual boot, but still the option to lock sectors is greyed out I have no more chips to try it on, i'm down to my last one so I can only assume that the GQ4x4 is unable to lock sectors on this particular eeprom | 
                     
                    
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