Cjw3, your suspicions turned out correct. I had the chip installed with the notch facing the outside of the board... :/ I pulled it out and inserted back the correct way, tried starting and still no luck. Again I tried pulling the flash codes and no go. While the chip was installed backwards I did try starting the car a lot of times so I could have damaged the chip per what you said. When it happened to you did replacing the chip fix it or was the ecu damaged as well and you had to replace it? I do have a nistune ecu at home as well but I don'f feel comfortable enough messing with it yet. If it comes to worst, for the sake of confirming a bad ecu I could download some maps from the nistune website that would work for with new injectors and at least try starting the car. But if in your case replacing just the chip fixed the problem I would rather try that first.
