AlexPeterson
Well Known Member
Just curious - my experience for almost 9 years has been that updating the 430's and now the 430w's navdata card has been a continuous pain in the somewhere. I initially had the old PCMCIA Skybound or whatever the thing was called. 3 years ago I got the newer Skybound USB programmer.
In any case, it seems like it has always been cantankerous to get it to work smoothly. Start the program, get the update downloaded, cross fingers, put the USB plug in, hope it detects. Half the time Windows XP wants to install the drivers for it (of course, they've already been installed and have previously worked). Somewhere along the line I learned it will only work in ONE of the computer's USB ports. However, I have always been able to beat it into submission, and get it updated.
Not today. Maybe the data card is bad, maybe not. I did download the file about 3 or 4 days ago, with the idea that I would bring the laptop to the hangar and do it there (as I've successfully done before). I've not waited several days in the past, maybe that is a problem.
The error it gives is stating that it failed verification. This error doesn't explicitly show on the control panel, but can be found by looking at the log. The help file indicates that this might be a download count problem, and to call them for reset. Subscription good through October.
In looking through the log, it is clear that I've had this error before, and was always able to pound through it somehow. The list of errors in that log are, to me, indicative of crummy software.
What are other's experiences?
In any case, it seems like it has always been cantankerous to get it to work smoothly. Start the program, get the update downloaded, cross fingers, put the USB plug in, hope it detects. Half the time Windows XP wants to install the drivers for it (of course, they've already been installed and have previously worked). Somewhere along the line I learned it will only work in ONE of the computer's USB ports. However, I have always been able to beat it into submission, and get it updated.
Not today. Maybe the data card is bad, maybe not. I did download the file about 3 or 4 days ago, with the idea that I would bring the laptop to the hangar and do it there (as I've successfully done before). I've not waited several days in the past, maybe that is a problem.
The error it gives is stating that it failed verification. This error doesn't explicitly show on the control panel, but can be found by looking at the log. The help file indicates that this might be a download count problem, and to call them for reset. Subscription good through October.
In looking through the log, it is clear that I've had this error before, and was always able to pound through it somehow. The list of errors in that log are, to me, indicative of crummy software.
What are other's experiences?
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