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used chip questions...
i bought a used superchis for my Lightning,
i took it ot get a reburn and i was told that the chip would not accept the program.
i saw the eror message, it was an out of memory error.
it said that my chip had 32Kb of memory and needed 5?Kb of memory to hold my Lightning program...
can you test a Superchips to see if it is bad???
i took it ot get a reburn and i was told that the chip would not accept the program.
i saw the eror message, it was an out of memory error.
it said that my chip had 32Kb of memory and needed 5?Kb of memory to hold my Lightning program...
can you test a Superchips to see if it is bad???
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Hi Lasergod,
You just ran into one of the problems that can happen when buying a used Superchip. That particular problem doesn't happen very often, but does happen from time to time as it has with you.
That is a very simple & basic error message, it's clearly telling the programmer that the module will only accept a 32K file size. That doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the Superchip, it simply means it can only accept a 32K file size. It's not going to accept the 56K file size needed by your Lighning or most other non-PSD OBD-II FoMoCo's. This is something *extremely* basic. The Superchip module you have is just not going to accept the file size you need.
It's time to buy a new Superchip and *please* have that Lightning tuned correctly. Unless you have no modifications, or have only things like an air filter kit, maybe a cat-back exhaust system, or electric fans, you may need custom tuning for that supercharged engine, so whatever you do, I suggest you work with someone who really knows the Superchip but more importantly, someone who knows Lightning tuning specifically, including the differences in tuning in each model year of the supercharged Lightning. We can help you with that if you like, just give us a call at our number listed below.
The bottom line is, you've just got a module that will only take a smaller file size, it sounds like the module itself may be fine, but that cannot even be tested with a 56K file size, it would have to be tested with a 32K file size. These are very simple things anyone programming it for you should have been able to tell you immediately; maybe they did and you're just trying to verify what you were told (which is fine), I don't know what's happening there on your end of course.
On some of the older Superchip modules (and I don't know if yours is like this or not, we'd have to have it here to check) there was an internal fusible link that controlled that fize size, so that if it was originally programmed with a 56K file size, it could accept a different 56K file when reprogrammed. But in those particular modules, if it was originally programmed with a 32K file, that was all it could ever accept in the future as well, as 32K file size. On those particular types of Superchip modules, that was controlled internally via a fusible link, and for a time, the manufacturer could change that for you, for a fee of course. It's not worth it to put more money into that module IMHO.
Anytime we get one of those modules, we just replace it for the customer with a newer style unit when we are providing the tuning, etc.
Best of luck whatever you decide!
You just ran into one of the problems that can happen when buying a used Superchip. That particular problem doesn't happen very often, but does happen from time to time as it has with you.
That is a very simple & basic error message, it's clearly telling the programmer that the module will only accept a 32K file size. That doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the Superchip, it simply means it can only accept a 32K file size. It's not going to accept the 56K file size needed by your Lighning or most other non-PSD OBD-II FoMoCo's. This is something *extremely* basic. The Superchip module you have is just not going to accept the file size you need.
It's time to buy a new Superchip and *please* have that Lightning tuned correctly. Unless you have no modifications, or have only things like an air filter kit, maybe a cat-back exhaust system, or electric fans, you may need custom tuning for that supercharged engine, so whatever you do, I suggest you work with someone who really knows the Superchip but more importantly, someone who knows Lightning tuning specifically, including the differences in tuning in each model year of the supercharged Lightning. We can help you with that if you like, just give us a call at our number listed below.
The bottom line is, you've just got a module that will only take a smaller file size, it sounds like the module itself may be fine, but that cannot even be tested with a 56K file size, it would have to be tested with a 32K file size. These are very simple things anyone programming it for you should have been able to tell you immediately; maybe they did and you're just trying to verify what you were told (which is fine), I don't know what's happening there on your end of course.
On some of the older Superchip modules (and I don't know if yours is like this or not, we'd have to have it here to check) there was an internal fusible link that controlled that fize size, so that if it was originally programmed with a 56K file size, it could accept a different 56K file when reprogrammed. But in those particular modules, if it was originally programmed with a 32K file, that was all it could ever accept in the future as well, as 32K file size. On those particular types of Superchip modules, that was controlled internally via a fusible link, and for a time, the manufacturer could change that for you, for a fee of course. It's not worth it to put more money into that module IMHO.
Anytime we get one of those modules, we just replace it for the customer with a newer style unit when we are providing the tuning, etc.
Best of luck whatever you decide!