Quick info before y'all read, I am a straight up newbie at all of this. Anything and everything I know is from second hand knowledge that I happened to pick up on, google searches, and trial and error. I need all the help I can get.

Here's the problem. We ended up having to send off our EA7 series HMI Display to get refurbished by Automation Direct, now I am trying to download our original project on it. The original project was made using an earlier version of C-MORE by a family friend (he's been helping me out as well, but he wont be available to help me out with this for a bit and I'm under pressure to get this thing going). I'm not sure which version honestly, but whenever I open it up using C-MORE Ver2.78+SP2 it has me make a copy of the .eap before I can get going with opening it up let alone transferring it.

I was finally able to get it to open, save, and transfer over to the EA7 display. When I was doing this, C-MORE said something about updating the firmware and I agreed to it thinking no harm no foul, surely an update wouldn't mess with it. Project is now on the EA7 HMI Display, but the error, P-001: PLC Communication Timeout, keeps popping up. on the front screen the PLC Program Version says it's "0.0" which I know can't be right, and the LED light next to TxD is lighting up.

We are using an EZ-SLC-232-CBL 35/05 wire leading from the touchscreen to a Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1500 PLC. What's stumping me is that the fault light on the PLC itself isn't lighting up, but the lights next to RUN and POWER are a solid green, so they seem good.

Like I said, I'm self taught and really good on picking up on stuff, but this has me absolutely stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated at this point. Any questions, i will try to answer to the best of my abilities.