Garmin Legend locks up...

[+SoonerL8R]

I was wondering if anyone has ever had any problems with a Legend locking up with a black line through the middle of the display before? Mine will work fine and not miss a beat until I activate WAAS and then everytime within 5 minutes it will get this black bar through the display in which I pull the batteries to restart it and turn off WAAS and away we go. Unfortunately this wasn't accurate enough to get me to caches so I moved up to the 60csx and it's like night and day the difference!

[+coggins]

I was wondering if anyone has ever had any problems with a Legend locking up with a black line through the middle of the display before? Mine will work fine and not miss a beat until I activate WAAS and then everytime within 5 minutes it will get this black bar through the display in which I pull the batteries to restart it and turn off WAAS and away we go. Unfortunately this wasn't accurate enough to get me to caches so I moved up to the 60csx and it's like night and day the difference!

I had an old eTrex that did that and I remedied it by updating the unit firmware.

[+GrnXnham]

Same remedy here.

[+SoonerL8R]

I thought of maybe doing that but I couldn't find a computer with an old Serial Port...I thought about selling it but I couldn't with a clear conscience knowing it was gonna lockup to some unsuspecting new owner.

[diggingest_dogg616]

Search Amazon for something like this. It is a serial converter, so you can plug the 9 pin serial into a usb port. I use it with mine. You'll need to have an install driver or something too, but the computer should be able to find it (at least mine did).

Edited January 1, 2012 by diggingest_dogg616