ExactlyAmy Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 My garmin venture has started this thing where when I turn it on, it shuts itself off. Sometimes it's within a few seconds, sometimes it's a minute or two. But it won't stay on. I replaced the batteries and it still does it. In fact, it does it even when plugged in to the cigarette lighter. Someone said I need to "reset" it, but how do I do this? Quote Link to comment
+RockyRiver Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 (edited) My garmin venture has started this thing where when I turn it on, it shuts itself off. Sometimes it's within a few seconds, sometimes it's a minute or two. But it won't stay on. I replaced the batteries and it still does it. In fact, it does it even when plugged in to the cigarette lighter. Someone said I need to "reset" it, but how do I do this? Let me ask something stupid, "Its not set in the menu to shut down automatically, is it"? I can't remember if this is an option on the Etrex menu or not? Anyone near thier Etrex series GPS? Mines in my work truck. Edited March 25, 2004 by RockyRiver Quote Link to comment
ExactlyAmy Posted March 25, 2004 Author Share Posted March 25, 2004 No, it's not set to do that. I don't know where that setting would be, but I've been using it for several months with no problem. Then the other day while en route to a cache, it shut down. It'd been working fine all day up to that point. So, thinking the batteries were dead, I took fresh ones out of my backpack and tried them, same problem. So later, back in the car and plugged into the lighter, same problem. Quote Link to comment
thcri Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Did this one have the problem with the ribbon cable coming loose. When it goes out the next time try squeezing the unit and see if the display comes back on. Usually it ends up with lines in it but I thought some of them did go out totally. Murph Quote Link to comment
ExactlyAmy Posted March 25, 2004 Author Share Posted March 25, 2004 Okay thanks, I tried squeezing it when it shut down, but that didn't do anything. Any other suggestions? I'm willing to try them! Quote Link to comment
+quills Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Is the Venture still under warranty? You might want to contact Garmin. They were great when I had to send my Legend in for repair. Quote Link to comment
+RockyRiver Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 If it is out of warrenty and its a hardware failure, look at this. http://www.garmin.com/support/outofwarranty.html Quote Link to comment
ExactlyAmy Posted March 25, 2004 Author Share Posted March 25, 2004 Yeah, it is out of warranty. Thanks everyone for your help. I contacted garmin tech support via their website, we'll see what they say. Quote Link to comment
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