Having a few problems with burning chips
 

This is a new problem on a old setup. Late Friday night I stayed up late burning chips so I would be ready for the dyno. This is a b18a OBD1 motor, with a chipped PR4, WITH A BURN 1, I was going to start tunning my NA setup because I am waiting on some turbo parts. This is going to be my plan B setup.

First chip, I took a stock map and did the fuel tables and made some other small changes.

Sencond chip, made the timming tables all say 16 for dissy setting made easy, all the same fuel trims.

Got the car fired up on the 2nd chip. It ran pig rich and the CEL was one the whole time and no codes would flash. So we plugged in the 1st chip and everything was great. It ran pretty damn good. I drove it around the shop a couple times to make sure everything was ok. No codes.

PROBLEM
I found a flat spot in it at a lower RPM that I tried to fix before we put it on the dyno. Now, I can't read, erase, or program any thing. It did one chip prefect then it's like a switch got flip on and I can't do ----. Does anyone around here have any idea what the hell this could be????

Randy

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

What chips and what burner Randy...

If SST, are you setting the Offsets correctly?

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

SST, Burn 1, that I got from you. What offesets are you speaking of??? I haven't changed anything.

Randy
PS using crome, but moates program

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

OK I WILL GO HANG MYSELF NOW. I got it fixed!!!!

Randy

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

Well my rope broke and I am still having problems.

Randy

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

My offsets are

Chipping address
008000
00FFFF

Buffer is set at this
000000
007FFF

Which I think is right?????????????

Randy
PS all chips that I have tried do the same thing, CEL on all the time and runs very rich. Then put back in my first one and runs like a champ.

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

Tried burning all chips with the program that ran soo good. Nothing but ----.

Randy

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

3 days of no dynoing really is starting to piss me off. I don't have a ------- clue. I spent about 5 hours looking around here and PGMFI.org. I got one chip that I burnt the good program on to not have the CEL for about 2 minutes, still pig rich and then the light comes on. Check for codes and nothing. Put back in the one chip and everything is happy again.

I think maybe I should go buy some thicker rope.

Randy

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

You HAVE To erase the chips first. New chips for some reason always burn bad if you dont erase them. So your offsets are fine. Load file to buffer, erase chip, program chip. done. make sure you have the chip in right. Arm on top, chip goes in the bottom slot, with the notch closest to the arm ,with a few slots empty inbetween the arm and the chip.

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

I know it should be that easy. That is how I did a few of them now and they just don't work. I am installing all this stuff on a different computer as we speak. I am just trying a bunch of random ----.

Randy

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

Now when I try doing things on my different computer I get the message. PROM I/O returned failure. I think this must be because my usb port isn't right or something. I'm just trying to tell you guys all my problems to see if you can help.

Randy

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

Well I came home and the burner seems to be working here. That USB crap somethings can be a pain.

I was looking at my pine trees in the back yard. Pine isn't a good tree for hanging. So I guess this will just have to be figured out.

Randy

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

Randy, you can burn WITHIN Crome and it sets the offsets and does the chip erasing and everything for you...

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

Thanks Chris for the phone call this AM. I did try burning the chips using the Crome software, that works pretty slick. The CEL is off, but the car on the same program runs like ----. Sometime this weekend I will play around with the programs and burning with crome to see if that works. I will also place an order for more goodies!!!

Thanks again Chris
Randy

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

Well I used my fathers brand new laptop and things are working just fine. I think the volts must have been going down or up during the chip burning. I was talking to some family (computer smart) yesturday and that was the only thing that they could think of.

IT"S WORKING>

Randy

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

Yeah I actually just figured out how to use crome to burn chips with burn1 last night. it so freakin slick. I'm definatly buying crome pro as soon as I can afford it...

Re: Having a few problems with burning chips
 

It does work slick with good working computer. My computer at home sucks.

Randy