by ZerOne » Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:11 am
Hi Parmoda,
Jezzab has worked out how to get the Black Cover clusters working in any VE,
(Just have a look at his posts a few pages back).
The EEPROM format for these clusters is completely different to the earlier models,
and the higher spec clusters have a different size EEPROM, (The dump from the HSV EEPROM is bigger than the standard clusters from memory).
So there is a lot more to do for these clusters, unfortunately cheap ones are rare on eBay, so it makes
buying one for testing a bit hard. (Im doing this for fun, not for profit, so I have to be careful where every dollar goes).
AUMatt, Try cutting a floppy drive cable connector to size.
(I haven't seen these connectors on any early models, so I dont think pick and payless / pick a part will be of any help).
WIth the early VE Clusters, with the help of MartinM, MsEnj and Jezzab, We have worked out th ODO, and what memory locations need to be copied to get a cluster working in another commodore.
To be honest, we dont know what these locations do exactly, but we know that setting them gets things happening.
What we really need now is more EEPROM dumps from 6Cyl models, (Eg SV6 Auto, SV6 Man, Omega Manual),
So as we can get the values from these models, and have a list of values you can plug in to a stock EEPROM to get things working.