Hi i recently installed the Pioneer Avic-D3 touch screen dvd nav in my 05 ss/sc cobalt.
now heres the issue. this radio came out of another cobalt becasue my friend desided to get rid of the car. now the radio worked when it came out of his car and went into my car a month later, not after it was installed we powered it on and it came on like it should and went to asking him his sec question, what was his dads middle name... so we try to touch the screen and the screen wont allow us to type in the answer like it is frozen. any ideals anyone????

 

try unplugging the harness to "reset" the unit otherwise its probably fucked

 

i tried that. were just confussed at the moment casue it was never dropt, nore did it see any water. and it worked when it came out of the other car. its just weird. i'll try unpluging the harnness this time for last time we just disconected the power wire.

 

yikes, if you reset it by unplugging it and it still freezes, you might be screwed.

 

ok we i just wanted to find out before i take it out for nothing, well least theres a warrenty on it still.

 

Did you push the reset button on the d3 itself?

 

yes a couple of times

 

I know when the D3 boots up for the first time when its been unpluged it needs the nav disk. Was that in there when you tried it?

 

yes the nav disk was in it

it booted up and everything now i want to type the sec password and the screen wont respond to my touch

 

IMO Your d3 went bad. You said you have a warrenty still so at least your safe... still sucks though.