Hoping to find a solution. Here is my story. Had many issues with passlock on my 97 grand am. In June of last year my brother did a bypass (something behind the radio I believe). Car has been great until recently. First I came upon an issue removing my key. Car would shut off but not fully back. Found online about the manual release button under the panel under steering wheel. A few weeks later I began having passlock issues again. Once or twice a week I would go to start and none of my instrument cluster lights or gauges would come on and I knew this meant the normal start and stall. But thankfully it would last just a few seconds and everything would pop back on and car would start. This week on Monday I left a store to find that same issue except this time nothing happened after a few seconds. Attempted to do a relearn and still no go. All I managed to do was kill the battery. Left it overnight and went back to it the next morning. After jumping the car and several attempts to start followed by just turning key back and forth it finally came to life. Later that night it started right up. Drove down the road target gas and once again no start. My brother came and again we jumped battery (tried to do relearn while waiting on him). Still nothing. He disconnected battery for 30 seconds and then cleaned the fuse for the instrument cluster and car was ready to go. Worked for about 5-6 starts then again today left me stranded. Bought fuses hoping that was the issue but still nothing. Tried disconnecting battery and nothing. Now we are at a loss. My brother says the bypass should be keeping it from passlocking but clearly that's not working unless there is something else that could be the issue. Can't afford a new car so I need to repair this one. Hoping to avoid the dealership. Any suggestions???