Originally Posted by
dave.king1
Roughly when did it go fritz, something in the config has changed maybe a paramater returned to default or changed to something weird.
If you don't have the updates scheduled think about when Win does it's monthly updates or when you installed a new piece of hardware/software, there will almost certainly be something that coincides with the failure.
Example of blaming the wrong thing.
A mates race car wouldn't crank over and he told me he was going to buy a new starter motor, not cheap and very hard to access.
I told him not to spend a cent until I had a look.
1. connected the battery direct to the starter, spun up so no problems there.
2. worked back through the wiring and found the the lug on one of the cables on the battery isolator switch ( big red key ) had been crimped and soldered, it had been crimped over the insulation and the solder had broken due to vibration.
3. stripped and recrimped the cable and all was good again, did both ends of both cables just to be sure.
End result was problem fixed in about and hour and didn't spend a cent.
The moral is that sometimes we get blinded by our own knowledge and blame the wrong thing for the problem without looking at all the possibilities.
My race car was hunting and stalling at idle, the common wisdom I got from many a mechanic was that I needed a new airflow sensor.
Problem turned out to be a couple of pinholes in the extractors allowing pulses of air in which made the O2 sensor in the exhaust think the car was leaning out, thus the hunting looking for fuel.
A couple of dabs with the Mig welder and it was sorted.
Don't over think it
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