RESISTOR for boot pin wins! So I had a setup for WIN7 on my laptop. Galletto 1260, wouldn't read. Swapped drivers, scratching my head for like a week right... Try my WIN7 desktop. Both running a virtual machine, not running a virtual machine again swapping drivers for a couple days..Cursing mircosoft for updating my drivers I dig out an old XP laptop, nurse the poor/ tiny little thing back to health (like digging up a casket, and sleeping with it's contents). Get that going, and after trying to get some response from the brick I stick it back in the car. Try to boot mode in the car. It's 10pm, i've got a work light hanging from my hood and the lights shining off the remnants of a broken boot pin. It was cooked. I must have let it arc at some point, or the previous owner or something. Trying to repair it just cooked it further, there wasn't much meat left to it. I tried an alternative boot pin on the back too, just to see if I could salvage it and I'm getting nothing.

 And the morals of this story boys and girls is the simplest explanation is usually the right one. Don't drink and remove the cover to an ECU, friends don't let friends flash drunk. Man, what else have I got... OH driver issues, my galletto 1260 would not work on any computer until I went through device manager. On every usb device shown, i went through the drivers they use. As I work my way down the list I've got a separate window open searching windows for the names of the drivers used by all the usb devices. Deleting them one by one <- not uninstalling them from device manager yet, deleting them from the second window i'm using to search. When I got done there was literally wasn't even a usb category. I think I used ftdichip.com's drivers and/or the ones included next to the link do download nefmoto to install the cable. When I got done I let windows search for additional new(or old whichever way you look at it) hardware, and done. My cable does not show up as a usb adapter, it shows up as an ftdi ft8uxx.

Needless to say I'm in the market for a new ecu, anybody selling one?. Does anybody know for sure if I can use a ME7.5 ecu? Or do I need to stick with the 7.1.1's? I don't even think I could jump the boot pin to wherever it's supposed to go. There's nothing left to it at all, but that would be cool to know..

Hey thanks again for bailing me out on that.. Maybe one of these days I'll catch some sleep, and stop rambling all over your fine establishment here. I had a bright idea that just occurred to me. The clutch vacuum interrupt If I remember right <-and that's a rarity these days went to 39, in the ecu connector. If that were energized, either a bad switch, or pressing the clutch while turning the key while grounding the boot pin think that could have something to do with it? I'm going to go tug on some wires, and see which way we ran it.

Phew, good so I'm glad just had a few too many and opened the ecu.. Otherwise I'd look like the lower hanging bits of a donkey. 

Note to self: buy a whiteboard. Bouncing idea's off strangers may work, but right now.. You're still just talking to yourself.

The resistor just prevent you from damaging the ecu with your shaky hands should you use the wrong pin.