+Me and my dad Posted November 27, 2006 Posted November 27, 2006 I need help. I am using an Etrex Legend combined with EasyGPS. This has been working well for six months. The other day I started getting error messages from EasyGPS saying "No data was recieved from the GPS". The help screen gives me no information about this. I checked the settings in the GPSr and every thing checks out. I have checked both ends of the cable, they appear OK. I have rebooted the GPSr and the computer, still no answer. My first suspicion is the cable but I wondered if anyone had any feedback on this. I welcome any thoughts. Thanks in advance for any help. Quote
+Renegade Knight Posted November 27, 2006 Posted November 27, 2006 It was working and now it's not. Can you roll your computer back to a prior point? A driver or an interupt or some other setting may have been changed. If you can't roll it back (or don't want too) I'd check your com port designations. Use EasyGPS to cycle through available com ports. Maybe which port you should be using has 'magicly changed' like windows does sometimes. My Com port for my laptop is com5. The modem is Com 1. Com 2-4 don't exist. Beats me as to why. I could swear that before I reformated the computer the com port was something else... Quote
+Me and my dad Posted November 27, 2006 Author Posted November 27, 2006 Thanks for the reply, but still no help. Com port 1 (the only one I have) 9600 baud. I removed the unit and then reinstated it. That didn't work either. Quote
+JSWilson64 Posted November 27, 2006 Posted November 27, 2006 Is there another computer you can try it on? I don't think you'd need to install anything but Easy GPS to try it. That would help narrow down whether the computer is the culprit. Quote
+Me and my dad Posted November 28, 2006 Author Posted November 28, 2006 I'm going to a friend's house tonight. I'll give it a try. Thanks Quote
+JegMag Posted November 28, 2006 Posted November 28, 2006 When I added software for a wireless mouse, my Dell stopped communicating with my GPS. I removed that software and all was good once again. Drove me nuts! Quote
+Me and my dad Posted November 28, 2006 Author Posted November 28, 2006 Well I tried it at a friends house and still no communication. Now I know it's either the cable or the Etrex. The new cable is ordered. I hope that's all it is. Disturbing though, it's not like the cable takes a whole lot of abuse. It just sits there pluged in to computer. Quote
+JSWilson64 Posted November 28, 2006 Posted November 28, 2006 it's not like the cable takes a whole lot of abuse. It just sits there pluged in to computer. Well, my cats like to gnaw on the cables, so you'd be surprised the amount of abuse a cable can take... Quote
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