Quest Locked Up.

tg49ers · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2005 Posts: 7

Does anyone know what is wrong with my Quest? I was just uploading a couple of waypoints and a map onto it, as it was transferring the data, the map point software said that it lost the connection. So I went to check my until, now it has the Quest "Transferring Data" screen on and it is locked there. I can't reset it or anything (tried to use the Menu In reset as well), it's froze there.

I'm not too keen on removing the screws and taking the battery out but I've ran out of ideas now.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks.

elsinga · Regular Visitor Joined: May 14, 2005 Posts: 171

Hold ZOOM IN and POWER together to forcibly power it off. That's in the manual...
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krusty_clown · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 11

You can also do a hard-reset, but be prepared to lose all of your stored data (tracks, waypoints, routes etc..).

The instructions to do this are available on elsinga's very useful and comprehensive FAQ (see the tag-line in his post).. I've had to do this once so far (only had the quest a little over a week!)...

tg49ers · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2005 Posts: 7

Thanks for you help, it worked.

Hopefully it doesn't lock up on me again, I am not sure what happened, is this a common thing?

elsinga · Regular Visitor Joined: May 14, 2005 Posts: 171

Check your firmware version. If it is less than 3.50, update. There were some locking problems in earlier versions.
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dandywarhol · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:04 am Post subject:

My Quest has locked up after installing European maps. I tried the power/in technique but still the same.
The screen says "aquiring satellites" but no buttons respond to touch except a "beep" when the rocker button is pressed. I can't find the hard reset on the elsinga site (found everything else though.......v. informative!)
Any help greatly appreciated, I'm off to Europe next week and need this damn thing

dandywarhol · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:37 am Post subject:

dandywarhol · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:21 am Post subject:

Panic over :D Took the liberty of skyping Robert Elsinga and he talked me through it.............many thanks again Robert.

elsinga · Regular Visitor Joined: May 14, 2005 Posts: 171

You're welcome. But don't start calling me all at once now. ;)

I think I will add a nice "FAQ: what to do when I panic because my Quest locked up" topic on my site. Probably with another title though. :D
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elsinga · Regular Visitor Joined: May 14, 2005 Posts: 171

Okay, see Quest First Aid. ;)
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dandywarhol · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:04 am Post subject:

Excellent................ideal for the technophobes amongst us Wink

Another quest ion...............(I don't seem to be inputting much to this forum Sad

)...............in order to load maps from a laptop/PC, do I have to install both v6 and v7 discs or does v7 automatically load?

elsinga · Regular Visitor Joined: May 14, 2005 Posts: 171

Since v7 is an update, you first have to install v6. But on my site there is a complete HowTo how to minimize the diskspace and delete v6 afterwards. ;)
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