Cant start up my go 710! HELP ????

go710 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 25, 2006 Posts: 1

just opened brand new, charged and then when i turn it on i get the screen showing a picture of the tom tom and theres an animation showing the memory card flying out with 2 hands on the card and a big red X over it

memory card is in properly and battery is charged, why isnt it woring

need help asap, much appreciated

Darren · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject:

Flip the unit over. Next to the docking connector is a small reset hole. It's very small and easily missed but grab a pin, insert into the reset hold and press gently for a few seconds. Then remove pin and switch on.
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chartman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 22, 2006 Posts: 5

Or connect it to tomtom home....
Or the SD card contacts are

already.... Sad

Barre · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 3

I have the same issue.

card 1: 128Mb with original maps (work fine btw)
card 2: 2Gb with Western_Europe

My Tomtom Go with card2 starts up with yellow background and a red cross over a blue card. Must be smth wrong with the data on the SD card, as card1 is working fine.

Funny thing is that when using TomTom Home with my TT connected, i can see my TT starting up (in My GO) and i can navigate without any problem. But when i start my TT standalone, again a blue card with two hands and a red cross.

I still haven't figured out what went wrong. In my pc, card2 is recognized flawlessly, so no hardware error on sd card.

Any ideas?

Barre · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 3

btw, the mentioned resseting trick did not solve my issue

chartman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 22, 2006 Posts: 5

Are you sure you have all the files? In windows explorer, make sure you have turned off 'Do not show hidden files and folders', 'Hide extensions for known file types' and 'Hide protected operating system files'.

thebinman · Banned Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 770

Corrupt 2Gb SD card.

Reformat & reload from your back-up(?!?!?!)

mikealder · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject:

Please have a read through THIS the issue you have with the 2GB card could be related to the speed of the card, not all SD cards are of the same quality, if the speed is too slow the device will reject the card and fail to start - Mike

Barre · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 3

Finally, my issue is solved. Bought myself a new SD card.

In the end, smth wrong with the SDcard itself, altough Windows detected the card without errors. Copied all data from card to a brandnew card and my TT started up without problems!

Thanks for the tips! TT is picky what concerns SD cards tough.

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