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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:01 am 
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well i finally plugged the chip into the ecu
all was well for a couple of days
then im driving down the hwy at 100clicks then bam car just shut down pulled over try too start it
it just turned over an back fired well after checking all electrics
an common faults nothing wrong so im sitting thinking
when my 1 year old boy starting asking for his chips (thanks son)
well i pull the chip out of the ecu turn the car over starts first go
so too cut a long story short any one know why the chip would do that

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:13 am 
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What chip? What tune? More info plz.....

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:38 am 
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corrupted bin caused check sum failure, happens with my ostrich if I dont have the laptop plugged in, but from what Ive played with, it sounds like either that or maybe you had a contact between the chip and J3 go bad.

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:46 am 
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Is there anyway to fix it? as i have a chip that does the same thing as purped described.

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:14 am 
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Have you tried cleaning the J3 port again then re-installing? failing that, I could probably read your chip, compare it to your ECU binary, but I probably cant write back to it, so if it is the chip that for some reason has become corrupted, then its over the shoulder you go.

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:21 am 
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Oh really so it might be stuffed? bugger!
Whats involved with reading the chip? how do you hook it up to a computer if you don't mind me asking.

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:24 am 
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simplest way is to buy a burn1 from moates, then use flash&burn to pull the data. Its not hard, and it takes about 10 seconds. Dont throw it out just yet.

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:51 am 
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yep like Jaysen said, make sure the contacts are prepped before plugging in the chip

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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:59 pm 
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yeah i put it back in when i got home been running fine for 3 days so far just cleaned up all contact might go a smaller cam an throw the chip but need it or car idle sux

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:26 pm 
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you havnt mentioned what car it is? what cam it is (if applicable)? What kind of 'chip' your running? Maybe the chip is tuned for another ecu?

Need to supply more info :wink:
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:22 pm 
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yeah the chip is tuned too the motor but too a manual ecu

 

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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:52 pm 
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And I thought I was the only one who had this problem :lol:

I had a Chiptorque HP4C chip in my AU with a Crow 2232549 cam, a few times. Every time I had the chip in, the car would run fine for a while, then start shutting down. After doing this for a couple of weeks, the PCM would stop talking to the BEM and the car wouldn't start. It'd need a tow to a workshop to have the PCM reflashed then it'd be OK for a while then start over. Once the BEM totally died and had to be replaced.

With the chip removed (and the cam too as it idled like s**t with the cam and factory tune) it's never played up.

 

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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:59 pm 
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Here is an excerpt from Tom Clouds EECTch98 book.

"A watchdog timer is incremented every state time. It is a 16-bit counter that reinitializes the system when it overflows to provide a means of recovering from a software fault. The user must periodically reset the watchdog timer to prevent register overflow and subsequent re-start."

This may give some clues.

 

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