This may be a dumb question but here it goes, I have a MP LM but one of the chips is fried. The 28 pin chip that is used for custom cal's is ok. So my question is, can you take that chip put it in a socketed LM and have a MP LM?
Thanks
This may be a dumb question but here it goes, I have a MP LM but one of the chips is fried. The 28 pin chip that is used for custom cal's is ok. So my question is, can you take that chip put it in a socketed LM and have a MP LM?
Thanks
Very good probability. But there are some questions that would still need to be answered.
Bumping this back up, to see if anyone has any input on this
Brendhan, while I haven't done it myself, I don't see an issue. As far as I know(pretty much nada), all they change is that chip and put a socket in. Please don't take my word, wait for someone knowledgeable.
Bryan
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A man has got to know his limitations.....
What year LM? In 87' all of the info you need to change the cal is on the top chip. for all other years it is on both from what I understand.
Not sure about what information is on that second chip but I believe the questions mw8668 is asking to be answered is why it got fried.
On that note, is your question can you take the chip out of the fried one and put it into another one that isn't fried and still have your custom LM? Yes. That's the only one that gets written to. I'd have to look at the other one but it's probably just a thingymabobber.... that burns up apparently.
Do you need a socketed one? I have one for 20 bucks. no chip but it's socketed and has a cool sticker on it!
The chip that is circled in red in this pic is the one that would need to be removed and replaced by a chip with a custom cal on it for an 87' LM. For the earlier LMs both the one circled in red, and the one that is to the left of it contain information which needs to be changed from what I understand.
There is so little support for the pre 87' LMs that I have only read a little about them, but from my understanding both chips need to be replaced with chips that have had the bin modified for it to work properly.
What's on that second chip?
Does that mean they all have that "fix" or that he fixes something in there? 840 might not need to worry about swapping the chip to another LM.
Nope, you're the only one! I know everyone and they said they already know!!
LMK when/if you find out what's on that second chip. I'll add it to my mental data base cuz I am into self torture and swapping out to SBEC's into L bodies and cutting and splicing in the dark!!
I'm always the last to know.
If I learn of anything I will let you know.