Help My CEL came on

[Sam-Son]

Ok this is the first time this has happned ever since I bought the car almost 2 years ago. Never once has the CEL came on even for a second. So I'm driving home as normal nothing crazy actually abit slower and calmer than normal. I get home pull in the driveway stop the car get out to open the garagethe car is idling the drivers door is open I'm just moving stuff around in the garage. The car was left idling for MAYBE 3 minutes...TOPS. So I get in the car to pull it into the garage and I notice that the CEL is on....No Idea why I don't notice anything out of order in fact I sort of surprised that its on at all because I didn't think that part of the cluster wasn't working. So I just backed the car into the garage and turned it off. Is there any way to know what the problem is. I know I havent really given you much info but I figured I'd go out and restart the car in a little bit see if the light is out. I really am in a bad way here because I just spent a bunch of money on it, fixing all the..er...most of the suspension foibles. I really need some advice
Thanks
-Mike:(

[Jehu]

1211 DME Control Unit
1215 Air Mass Sensor
1216 Throttle Potentiometer
1218 Output Stage, Group 1
1219 Output Stage, Group 2
1221 Oxygen Sensor 1
1212 Oxygen Sensor 2
1222 Lambda Control 1
1213 Lambda Control 2
1223 Coolant Temperature Sensor
1224 Intake Air Temperature Sensor
1225 Knock Sensor 1
1226 Knock Sensor 2
1227 Knock Sensor 3
1228 Knock Sensor 4
1231 Battery Voltage/DME Main Relay
1232 Throttle Idle Switch
1233 Throttle Wide Open Throttle Switch
1234 Speedometer A Signal
1237 A/C Compressor Cut Off
1242 A/C Compressor
1243 Crankshaft Pulse Sensor
1244 Camshaft Sensor
1245 Intervention AEGS
1247 Ignition Secondary Monitor
1251 Fuel Injector 1 (or group 1)
1252 Fuel Injector 2 (or group 2)
1253 Fuel Injector 3
1254 Fuel Injector 4
1255 Fuel Injector 5
1256 Fuel Injector 6
1257 Fuel Injector 7
1258 Fuel Injector 8
1261 Fuel Pump Relay Control
1262 Idle Speed Actuator
1263 Purge Valve
1264 EGO Heater
1265 Fault Lamp (check engine light)
1266 VANOS
1267 Air Pump Relay Control
1271 Ignition Coil 1
1272 Ignition Coil 2
1273 Ignition Coil 3
1274 Ignition Coil 4
1275 Ignition Coil 5
1276 Ignition Coil 6
1277 Ignition Coil 7
1278 Ignition Coil 8
1281 Control Unit Memory Supply
1282 Fault Code Memory
1283 Fuel Injector Output Stage
1286 Knock Control Test Pulse
1444 No Fault Codes
If you cannot read them that means that you have a bad bulb or no buld at all. Older E34's don't have a check engine bulb wired.
1. Turn the ignition key on (without starting the car) and depress the accelerator pedal to the floor 5 times within 5 seconds.
2. The check engine light will remain lit for 5 seconds, blink off, light for 2.5 seconds, goes off for 2.5 sec. and will start flashing the codes.
3. Each code is separated by a 2.5 sec. pause. A 0.5 sec. blink then nothing means the end of the code reading. To read them again, depress the accelerator pedal 5 times again.
Clear the codes
1. Read the codes. At the end, make sure that the 1000 code (short blink and nothing) is present then depress the accelerator for at least 10 seconds.
2. To check, depress the accelerator pedal 5 times within 5 sec and make sure that the 1444 code (no fault stored) is present.
Car code display
With the key off, press in the OBC display reset button on the dash below the tach (the one that makes your readout disappear). Hold it in for 3 seconds and turn the key to position 2. Release the button, watch all of the car codings and then the final light show. That is the only way I want to see the tach go that high.

[Sam-Son]

OK just did the stomp test First off Jehu thanks so much for that info that is a huge help rminds me why tis is one of the only two boards I even bother to be active on...Now if I did the stonp test correctly which I think I did because the CEL did its little blinky blink show with the 2.5sec intervals...and the result....NOTHING...NO code came up nothing nada zip zilch...my goddamn car is possesed. I cant figure it out so what does this mean..more of the cluster being totally ****ed up or what?
-Mike

[timandbim]

i think you should do a stomp test first to find out which error code has been triggered, then do a reset and see if it gets triggered again. i got a fuel injector code once that hasn't come back since i reset the system... not yet at least...