No GPS signal on TT3

[cardmagicman]

Please help save my sanity as i have been trying to sort this problem for hours now.

I originally purchased TT2 wired GPS for my Toshiba e740. This all worked perfectly well until my e740 broke (outside of the car so not connected to the GPS).

I purchased a Toshiba e800 to replace it and decided to upgrade to TT3 while I was in a spending mood! This meant i had to also buy a new serial cable as the connection port is smaller on the e800.

TT3 loaded fine but I have a problem with the GPS status, although the green light is flashing ok on the GPS receiver, no sinal is being recieved by the e800. When I go to look at the GPS status screen there are no moving black progress dots that you would normally see. In fact there are no dots at all.

Can anyone suggest a solution?

Many thanks in advance.

[HandyMac]

I have a different setup but the circumstances sound similar to what I sometimes see.

My TT3 system usually works very reliably. Then next day when I plug it in it fails to get talking to the receiver and no amount of persuasion, reset or other messing about seems to cure the problem.

Had this a couple of days ago and decided I'd try moving the receiver along the dashboard and away from the instrument panel. Instant success.

It might therefore be worth popping the receiver outside the car to try it.

Andrew

[cardmagicman]

I thought the signal strength could be part of the problem so have tried it with the receiver on the roof of the car!

Still no joy though, the receiver just doesn't seem to want to talk to the Toshiba........

[Robin2]

I don't know if you used autodetect, but try playing around with different Com port settings in the GPS setup. I had this problem when upgrading from Copilot 4 to 5. It should have autodetected the com port but didn't do so, I had to set it manually
Robin

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