One of the reasons I bought the MS Streets & Trips with GPS for my tablet pc was to help me navigate around Seattle when we arrived. And it worked fine, for about a day.
Now when I start it up, it works for about 5 minutes, then dies. The software seems to be fine, but it claims that it’s not receiving data from the COM port. When I run a device check, the GPS shows up and claims to be working. If I do a full reboot of the machine, it starts working again…for about 5 more minutes, tops. Then it stops again. If I unplug or replug the GPS receiver, the computer acknowledges it with a little sound, the way it usually does. So is it the GPS receiver itself? If so, since I’ve only had it for a few months, will MS replace it? How do I go about finding that out? Do I take it back to the MS store next week after I start work?
Can’t find any information anywhere on how to isolate the problem. The documentation is next to worthless, and PC troubleshooting has so many different places to look—the application software, the drivers, the OS, the GPS manufacturer, the laptop manufacturer. Feh.
So much for the GPS helping me navigate Seattle. So much for me navigating Windows. Scoble, got any suggestions?
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