DouglasW
Petty Officer 1st Class
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- Apr 20, 2018
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The small 5" Simrad GO5-XSE MFD that came with my used boat failed a few months after I got the boat so I bought a new one just like the old one. The chart was out of date, so several months ago I bought a new chart, C-Map Insight Pro which I installed to a new 32GB SD card. All worked fine until the boat lost all power while sitting on the lift for a few months. When I started the Simrad, and selected the optional chart, it did not show any shoreline detail, only points of interest. The Simrad also randomly rebooted, maybe every 30 minutes. I noticed that if I removed the card, the rebooting did not happen and the unit worked ok although on the outdated internal maps. Even making a copy of the contents of the card onto another card did not help. I sent the guys at GoFree (where I bought the chart) and C-Map messages about this and have received no replies. The Simrad folks may be ready to replace the unit under warranty, but I am not sure this will help. Has anyone had experience with corrupted map data causing this kind of problem and knows how to fix it?