Posted: 11/1/2002 9:16:25 AM EDT
| No one around here has anything called a "computer chip remover" so is there any ghetto ways i can remove one? This chip is on the ECU of my car and im replacing it with an upgraded one for better performance. im afraid to put spmething under it to "pry" it |
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Is the chip in a socket? Be careful some of these boards won't take much in the way of prying. Dennis Jenkins Quoted: No one around here has anything called a "computer chip remover" so is there any ghetto ways i can remove one? This chip is on the ECU of my car and im replacing it with an upgraded one for better performance. im afraid to put spmething under it to "pry" it |
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Quoted: Is the chip in a socket? Be careful some of these boards won't take much in the way of prying. Dennis Jenkins Quoted: No one around here has anything called a "computer chip remover" so is there any ghetto ways i can remove one? This chip is on the ECU of my car and im replacing it with an upgraded one for better performance. im afraid to put spmething under it to "pry" it yes, its a socket chip. Radio shack, the wiz, comp usa all dont carry this part here. I have no clue how to get this out and going against what I would normally do, im not going to get it out with brute force |
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Is it just a standard chip that looks like a Hershey bar square with the pins sticking out the bottom? It's obviously in a socket of some sort right? If so, all you need is a small thin and flat screwdriver. You wiggle it into one side edge between the socket and the chip and get the chip to lift a little. You'll hear some faint cracking noises, this is okay, it's just tension. If you hear something like SNAP then I'd get worried. Once you get one side lifted a bit, go to the other side and do the same. Go back and forth to each side of the chip and slowly raise the chip in this fashion. Once the chip is up high enough that you can't really get it to raise up more with the screwdriver you have, either get a slightly fatter one, or you can just put the driver underneath the chip and pry it off at this point, it should be out of the socket enough. If you don't have enough room to do as above, get something L shaped that is flat and you can work under the chip and do a similar routine as above. GL Edit: Where in NY are you? Maybe I can just drive a puller over? hehe |
| 'Computer chip removers' kind of went the way of the dodo after the introduction of the ZIF socket and ram that came on sticks. For your purposes, depending on the size of the socket, you can use a flat blade screwdriver or a butter knife. Pry one open end of the chip up a little, then the other end (just a little), then back to the other side, and so on, until you can remove it. You'll probably bend some of the pins, that's OK as you can just bend them back. Be careful and you'll do fine. |
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A scalpel, some local anesthetic, and some neosporin.....wait. This is a car? Cars have computer chips? Can they track you with that? You wouldn't be installing a PRE BAN performance enhancing chip in a POST BAN VW would you? You should talk to the BATF first. Just be careful. A zif socket remover can still be purchased at radioshack. Ask for the EPROM remover tool. Its like a wide pair of plastic pliers, usually grey. |