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Taipan
Guest
Richards Bay South Africa East Coast
On our route across the Indian ocean we experienced some alarming problems with our unit
I don't have the whole error message but the gist is
NATIVE EXCEPTION ERROR..........????......Black Box........blah blah
Then at the bottom of the screen a red bar appeared and the message read
HDD WARNING. Consult your Dealer!
The unit would not shut down and would not restart.
After turning off the main power we were able to restart it after several attempts
Prior to this major failure we have experienced several similar incidents of shut down or freezing. No notices or warnings before however.
Since this last incident it has frozen, and had to be switched off at the power, several times over several hours.
It doesn't like anything altered too much....in, out, ship, display etc..any functions.
I have a quote for a new HDD at $850. this cannot be correct surely???
The unit was installed in late 2010
I have been advised to turn off the Tides and Currents layers and this problem should go away??
I have also been advised that the unit can only run for 2000 hours before it must have everything reinstalled.
Can you please advise as we need to go to sea again and it would be good to know we can rely on this piece of equipment instead of Ipad which has no Radar.
Does anyone know if there is a RADAR APP???
Regards
Kris
On our route across the Indian ocean we experienced some alarming problems with our unit
I don't have the whole error message but the gist is
NATIVE EXCEPTION ERROR..........????......Black Box........blah blah
Then at the bottom of the screen a red bar appeared and the message read
HDD WARNING. Consult your Dealer!
The unit would not shut down and would not restart.
After turning off the main power we were able to restart it after several attempts
Prior to this major failure we have experienced several similar incidents of shut down or freezing. No notices or warnings before however.
Since this last incident it has frozen, and had to be switched off at the power, several times over several hours.
It doesn't like anything altered too much....in, out, ship, display etc..any functions.
I have a quote for a new HDD at $850. this cannot be correct surely???
The unit was installed in late 2010
I have been advised to turn off the Tides and Currents layers and this problem should go away??
I have also been advised that the unit can only run for 2000 hours before it must have everything reinstalled.
Can you please advise as we need to go to sea again and it would be good to know we can rely on this piece of equipment instead of Ipad which has no Radar.
Does anyone know if there is a RADAR APP???
Regards
Kris
