Plutar

fly over to the side of the road, check everything, start car, no check engine light, nothing, turn around start heading home (because the car doesnt do this kind of thing for fun) and car stalls again. This time abs/epc light flashed, then check engine light flashed, car starts again, drives totally normal...

next day, car wont start, no gas... I replace the ecu with a stock one, car runs PERFECT, no problems, starts right up...

Now onto my question, i have a socketed GIAC chip on my ECU that failed, WTF part of the ecu failed? can i assume that the socketed GIAC chip on the ecu that failed is also fubar? or can i assume that its still working and put it on my stock ecu that has been sitting in the garage for a year...

sorry for the long explanation of what happened.. but it may be useful to somebody searching the archives who has this minor and scary problem lol

quickaudi:STFA

bad solder?

Plutar

BUT theres so much crap to look at that it would be really easy to miss something

MingsS4

...for any movement. It's the legs of the socket that are soldered onto the ecu board.

Roque

You can have very small solder cracks due to ESD that can't be seen by the naked eye.

mike (@home)

call whoever is the your nearest GIAC dealer that is soldier-approved and get it worked out, GIAC has been really cool about it in every instance i have worked with them on.