FAQ: BDM questions and problems, read and post here!

[seb]

If your checksum is OK then it's working of course.

How did you solder BDM contacts?

I'm asking because I've seen soldering with strange soldering liquid.
It was ZnCl2 (zinc chloride, commonly known as "tinners fluid") and what's worst...not cleaned afterwards!
So I got similar results, only partial writings via BDM. Took whole hour to find where the problem hides

May not be your problem however..

For everybody else who solder BDM contacts - don't use acid-based fluxes and ALWAYS clean residues between contacts.

[rawill]

Thanks - Seb

As I thought, but I was asking because the flashing hung (paused) near the end of the process, and only continued after I pressed ESC.

All my soldering is done by an electronics firm who make their own boards.

/R

[jtdesignsca]

This is my second and I am having a problem and think I may have a brick on my hands but I will let you guys decide:

As far as I know I have everything hooked up right all my scripts work and run, bdm doing as it should but when I try to dump flash I get the "process complete 11 rec. read" really quick with just 10 or so dots. After reading up on the matter (every day and night for about a week now) and had believed it be a connection error between the bdm and ecu. I feel this was cause I tested my power supply (16.2v constant) and checked bdm cable and readings at ecu through the power and ground wires, all good. So do I have a "Brick" on my hands. I ordered the ecu off ebay 97 900ng turbo and it works perfectly in my car but just won't dump or flash. The two flash chips say "Flash" on them and my motoralla chip ends with a 20 instead of 16 so I figure its the faster processing one. Please help soooooooo frustrated ! I did trace every part of the bdm and all are good no breaks. And I am using the pogo pins but I even checked that with the volt meter and its conducting power as it should. Thanks ahead of time from someone who should have a stg3+ tune on his 96 900ng se turbo!

Joe

[rawill]

Not much help from me really - I am a newbie too.

But I thought the ECU's with the Flash chips were the easiest to Flash.

I had your issue when I tried to Flash a T5.5 bin to a T5.2 ecu!!!

[truevip]

Hi all long time since i have been on here i have ran into the same problem as before where it wont let me dump a file i have bought a power cable thats capable of 5-15v with 400ma max and thought this would be ok??? can anyone shed some light on this issue im having please because im running out of time and need this running asap these are a few images

[truevip]

ok so i got a little further than last time so i kept typing a higher port speed untill i reached 34000 but can't get past this ..... does this mean i need to keep going higher with the port speed? any ideas?

[jtdesignsca]

Thats seems to be the same problem I was having but I didn't try going that high on the port speed! What Increments are you going up in? 1000 at a time or 100 at a time? And does anyone know the highest allowable port speed? I have a pentium4 1.5 ghz with 512 memory running on win98SE. Thanks and thank you truevip you have shed a little light on my situation !

Joe

[truevip]

we're all in the same boat here lol my max port speed was 59000 it told me there was an error at that point i went up in 1000's then hovered around 34000 going up and down in 500's i shall try going up and down from that figure in 100's and see what happens

p.s. i'm writing down all figuers as i go with a breif discription of the outcome

[jtdesignsca]

Interesting will follow since I just can't get it all to work yet either !

Thanks again,

Joe

[rawill]

This is very odd - some kind of BDM virus going around!!

I had the same error message, and some others.
I was trying to Flash an ECU with AM29010 - 150xx chips.

I am not sure what the issue was but I suspect the aligator clip on my power supply was not connecting properly to pin 60 or 65.
I did get it to get eventually, but not without a lot of trying.

I can not be sure about that. I had done 5 ecus before this and thought I knew what I was doing!!

Always learning.
I am a bit nervous about doing my next one.
I have now got a 70 pin connector that i have wired to my 16v power supply
/R

[truevip]

so how did you get around the issue? sophie might know the issue (hint hint) lol it's really odd lol will it effect anything if you remove the 8pin connector whilst your in bd32?? (not dumping) i found that the screen froze a few times and i had to restart the comp?

[tomsan]

I got a problem whit my bdm. And some of my friends to.

I have installed everything several times...

When i turn on the bdm.exe. It just keep writing cant clock mcu when in reset.

What to do?

Tommi

[jtdesignsca]

Go into your bios in windows and change its mode to "ECP" and try again. Your comp. is prob. set to "Standard (SPP)" and the bdm doesn't like that!

Joe

[tomsan]

Your comp. is prob. set to "Standard (SPP)" and the bdm doesn't like that!

I dident catch that?

[tomsan]

Ah, now i get it. I have triend all settings on the writer port

[jtdesignsca]

If you have tryed all the diff. settings with no avail then I would say you have a connection issue. Is your bdm and ecu hooked up to eachother right? Pin 1&2 on bdm go to pins 3&4 of ecu so the plug is hanging over the left side of the 8 pin connector if your looking at it from the front (plug side). Hope this helps, I am having problems getting mine to talk to eachother but am past the stage your at right now so I am of little service! ! Good luck and post your findings if you get it to work.

Joe

[Cruzer51]

ok guys heres a question i have bdm working i am at the point to where i need to type in reset for the first time when seting up bd32. well when i need to type reset i cant type anything at all on the blue dos screen?? any one else expereance this issue mcu:?????????? port:lpt2 halt: ? reset: ? thats what the botom of the window says and in the blue part at the top i got this
bd32 version 1.22
device lpt2 at speed 1000
bd32->_ i need to type reset here
cant type at all

hope someone can help out here

[Cruzer51]

ok guys heres a question i have bdm working i am at the point to where i need to type in reset for the first time when seting up bd32. well when i need to type reset i cant type anything at all on the blue dos screen?? any one else expereance this issue mcu:?????????? port:lpt2 halt: ? reset: ? thats what the botom of the window says and in the blue part at the top i got this
bd32 version 1.22
device lpt2 at speed 1000
bd32->_ i need to type reset here
cant type at all

hope someone can help out here

[truevip]

i think you might have your 8 pin connection on the wrong way!? try taking it off and moving it to the left or right which ever 1 is opposite. It's the same sort of problem i was facing a few posts above this 1 ... hope this helped good luck

[Cruzer51]

i think you might have your 8 pin connection on the wrong way!? try taking it off and moving it to the left or right which ever 1 is opposite. It's the same sort of problem i was facing a few posts above this 1 ... hope this helped good luck

its trionic 5 and there is only one way to put the 8 pin conection on i have had someone else use the bdm i have and my ecu with there computer so i dont know if maybe its an issue with my computer or what but i cant type on the bd32 screen anywhere