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Originally Posted by HiLife
That was a weird experience indeed. I would expect that kind of thing happening on a CANBUS system.
The 3rd gens, I know of my 2000 is just traditional simple wiring.
I know bad battery connections do strange things but, total system loss due to a loosely connected amp wire? I'm curious what were the electrical mechanics that led up to that loss.
It seems like it was a bad battery connection but, just simply removing the amp power wire solved the issue. And clamping down on the wire solved the system loss while the engine is running.
Curious to hear what the collective have to say about this too.
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My first thought was that because I had been playing the stereo for a while, I had run the battery down and wasn't getting proper voltage. I have a good battery load tester that showed the battery to be in good shape. Regardless, I charged to battery to full charge make sure that wasn't the issue. Made no difference. Computer still crashed upon trying to start. At no time did the engine ever crank - just a black screen of death from the instrument panel when I hit START. Then 10-15 minutes and the computer would reset.
Perhaps it is a relay (faulty?) in the starting system that tells the computer to shut down. For instance, to reset the computer without disconnecting the battery terminals fo 15 minutes, I found online I could pull the R7 (? - I forget) relay and reinsert and the computer would reset.
But sleeping on the issue overnight, I realized it must be in the loose connections in the fuseholder causing some sorta fail-safe fault in the system. Just never had it happen to me. It has been functioning fine since improving the connection. I also ordered some copper connection furrules to enhance the two 8 ga connections and keep them from loosening.