If this does not sound correct could someone please speak up !!!!!!!!!!!!
Car back from the Porsche dealer. They did not turn my gauges on. Reason: they were afraid they would possibly disrupt my 996ROW flash.
Further research suggest that this will not happen BUT ......I have to first turn the gauges on in my current gauge cluster. My present gauge cluster (seen below) is a 1998 Boxster gauge cluster that looks like a 996 cluster. It is a boxster cluster because it still has the cars original mother board in the cluster. All that was done was to add all the 996 digital gauges ONLY to my 986 cluster.
Then I need to comparing the data on the flash chip in the 996 mother board with the data on the chip in my 986 cluster(same location on both clusters). The difficulty I am running into is although the chip are in the same location on both mother boards they appear to have different chip numbers. The 996 board shows 93c56B and the 986 board shows sc56M
I can read the chip on the 996 board BUT can not read the chip on 986 board.
Why:: because the chip number does not show in my GQ-4x EPROM Programmer chip listing. Anyone have any ideas??
To help clarify when I installed the 996 motor in the car I ran the extra wire from the 996 oil sending unit to pin #9 blue plug in the back of the gauge cluster to pick up the signal. That was not clear on my note below.
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Once I am able to read the code on the 986 chip I can change the code to turn on the two gauges. At that point I can use a PIWIS to turn on the gauges in the cluster and then use the PIWIS to do the same thing and turn the gauges on in the DME.
That means there are two steps to do with the PIWIS.
ALL SHOULD THEN WORK.............Does this sound reasonable???