Fried Ecu?

[Sac240]

I was working on my car a couple days ago, and I was an idiot and didn't disconnect the negative battery cable. So while tightening a bolt, I push a positive wire off of my temp controll unit from my electric fan into a ground on accident. It sparks, and when I get back into my car, the clock isn't running, the sliding seatbelts arent'sliding and my stereo isn't turning on, and all of these things work as soon as I turn the engine on... The car runs weird too, because when I rev its fine, but as soon as I let the clutch engage it won't run past 2k...

So I trouble shoot and check fuses, then I open up the ecu and check to see if anything is fried, and I can't seem to find a burnt connection, or a burnt fuse anywhere... Any Ideas?

P.S. I'm an idiot for not disconnecting the battery, I know, so please dont' flame too hard...

[jack-pot]

did you pull all the fuses out and check them, cause the same thing happened to me when the clock and radio didnt work, and it was like the (e.nics) fuse ?? or something like that, was blown. just a suggestion.

[jmscottza]

yea make sure you checked all fuses, same thing happen a short in accident. so i checked if anything stop working. seatbelt, clock doesn't work and the wire that was shorte has no electricity go through. i was like oh my god, i f it up........ then i realized that might be problem with the fuse so i checked them out... i found on 20 is out and i replace it ... still won't work... then i keep looking and finally i found a 15 is out and i replce that... you know what .. it works. well i believe a short won't kill your ecu unless you had messed with those fuses before.

[znelson]

I was working on my car a couple days ago, and I was an idiot and didn't disconnect the negative battery cable. So while tightening a bolt, I push a positive wire off of my temp controll unit from my electric fan into a ground on accident. It sparks, and when I get back into my car, the clock isn't running, the sliding seatbelts arent'sliding and my stereo isn't turning on, and all of these things work as soon as I turn the engine on... The car runs weird too, because when I rev its fine, but as soon as I let the clutch engage it won't run past 2k...

So I trouble shoot and check fuses, then I open up the ecu and check to see if anything is fried, and I can't seem to find a burnt connection, or a burnt fuse anywhere... Any Ideas?

P.S. I'm an idiot for not disconnecting the battery, I know, so please dont' flame too hard...

The glory of fuse boxes is they tend to protect in short circuit situations. Theres a white box down the left of your fuse panel on the driver side, unbolt it, open it up and see if anything is scarred in there.