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Truthfully it may not be possible to tell if the ECU fried... until you fix up your car first and try it.

The ECU has a fuse that would blow out if there was short... lets hope it did its job. by the way, thanks for sharing the pics, i've always wanted to open up the ECU!

If there was catastrophic ECU frying... the blue electrolytic capacitor would probably swell up, leak or burst.

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Truthfully it may not be possible to tell if the ECU fried... until you fix up your car first and try it.

The ECU has a fuse that would blow out if there was short... lets hope it did its job. by the way, thanks for sharing the pics, i've always wanted to open up the ECU!

If there was catastrophic ECU frying... the blue electrolytic capacitor would probably swell up, leak or burst.

You are welcome. My fingers are crossed that the ECU is ok.

The new harness should arive tuesday and be on the car buy wednesday. My biggest worry is that what ever caused this harness to short will cause the new one to short.

I checked the fan relay with a volt meter. I got a resistance of .1 ohms. Power(watts) = volts^2 / ohms. Im not an electrician but to me that = 1440 watts. and bothe wires running to the relay were badly shorted. The inside of the relay looked to be fine.

Do you know of any typical causes of something like this?

speaking of ECU chips....Are these chips readible with an EEPROM reader? or are the somehow Protected from reading?

I have no idea. A guy on this board whos S/N is Zac might be able to help you with your question.

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i don't think anyone's managed to get it to work no, but i could be wrong.

Ok....Who has a Chip info or Bad ECU they could share? Stock and Re-map type chips from an 95-97 855R? 93-94 855T.

Are ALL the chips in our ECUs Socketed or Hard wired (Soldered) in?

I can see the 28 pin BSR Eprom on Trance42's post....Its Socketed and it looks like it comes with its own Socket???

Or is that Volvos OEM socket?

The E8588 BIN is their part number I assume...Looking at his photos there is no way to tell if its an EPROM or EEPROM (Erasable) chip....and not knowing what Type of chip like 27c256 or 27c512 etc without pullin the sticker up.

I have an EEPROM reader, and Eraser I've had for years. Time to put it to use. Just curious if it can be done.

PM me. Look on your Chips and read the Part number of the chip if you can.....Like 27C256 27c512 or something similar. Some chips can be reprogrammed over and over if it has a small Glass Window for UV erasing....the "Program Once " or EPROMs can only be done once and dont have a window....

Better yet if you have a Digital camera, Take a Macro or close up of an ECU chip and send me the pictures...

KQQLDEVICE@aol.com.

This would be good info to know incase you ever have to Re-Flash your chip if something goes wrong with your ECU

( Which could be why some ecu's fail because it may have lost its program in the EEPROM)...You can have the BINary file on a disk or CD for safe keeping.

Oh yeah.. I did catch this by Razor:

Bottom Line: Oliver needs to fix it and fast.

Slater: Oliver told me that the socket is neccessary because of either to protect their maps from being duplicated and/or to talk properly to the board, the socket is neccessary to "decryp" the EEPROM. Without the socket, the EEPROM will not work.

NOW, he could be completely sh!tting me. It does make business sense to use a dcryp socket to protect from such an easy thing as duplicating EEPROM data which does indeed cost just a few bucks. I suspect Oliver has a point with the socket because if one could simply duplicate maps with an EEPROM programmer, I think dirt cheap, do-it-yourself remapping it would be much more rampant that I have seen.

I have reached the limit of my knowledge on the ECU mapping.

Not sure how a socket can encrypt an eprom unless it has its own circuit in the socket or a Diode to limit the serial data flow or something....That sort of answers my question....

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Ok....Who has a Chip info or Bad ECU they could share? Stock and Re-map type chips from an 95-97 855R? 93-94 855T.

Are ALL the chips in our ECUs Socketed or Hard wired (Soldered) in?

I can see the 28 pin BSR Eprom on Trance42's post....Its Socketed and it looks like it comes with its own Socket???

Or is that Volvos OEM socket?

The E8588 BIN is their part number I assume...Looking at his photos there is no way to tell if its an EPROM or EEPROM (Erasable) chip....and not knowing what Type of chip like 27c256 or 27c512 etc without pullin the sticker up.

I have an EEPROM reader, and Eraser I've had for years. Time to put it to use. Just curious if it can be done.

PM me. Look on your Chips and read the Part number of the chip if you can.....Like 27C256 27c512 or something similar. Some chips can be reprogrammed over and over if it has a small Glass Window for UV erasing....the "Program Once " or EPROMs can only be done once and dont have a window....

Better yet if you have a Digital camera, Take a Macro or close up of an ECU chip and send me the pictures...

KQQLDEVICE@aol.com.

This would be good info to know incase you ever have to Re-Flash your chip if something goes wrong with your ECU

( Which could be why some ecu's fail because it may have lost its program in the EEPROM)...You can have the BINary file on a disk or CD for safe keeping.

Oh yeah.. I did catch this by Razor:

Not sure how a socket can encrypt an eprom unless it has its own circuit in the socket or a Diode to limit the serial data flow or something....That sort of answers my question....

I have the stock .bin file from my ECU. (CDN spec 98 S70 T5 Manual) I will eamil it to you.

The ECUs don't come socketed.

There is a big thread on the ECU files/programming.. i'll dig it up for you.. http://volvospeed.com/vs_forum/index.php?s...c=18585&hl=

Here's mine after the Upsolute programming. They decided to re-solder the chip in instead of socketing. My ECU uses the 32 pin chip.

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