Last night, all the gauges except the tach stopped working in the cluster. The seatbelt light and brake light came on eventually, and stayed on. The mileage in the odometer flashed. I have searched the forums, and the general consensus seems to be either the pcm, the gauge cluster, or a bad ground. I checked a bunch of grounds this morning. All seem fine. I pulled the gauge cluster out-all the pins are clean. I tried the self check on the gauge cluster, and the gauges do not sweep. I get "chec" in the odometer, then it says 921...999 and stays there. The batteries are not charging (but the batteries are good). I tapped into the green wire with the black tracer for ignition hot to run fog lights and pyrometer (both off relays) and neither of those things work. None of the fuses are blown. Is the pcm dead? Sounds like it to me, but how common is it to go bad all of a sudden, and where is the best place to get one? How much $ ? Thanks
This is on the 98.5

 

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