Sat Nav Screen Problem!!

Benny88

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 Wigan
Not been on here for a while due to one thing and another, mad busy at work and GF borrowing my laptop for months lol, hope everyone is well!

Right I have a small (possibly major) problem with the sat nav screen on my e86 coupe, basically I was driving along earlier tonight and suddenly the screen went into 4:3 aspect size (black lines down each edge) and started to flicker! The navigation display is still on the screen and located by GPS, so the sat nav is working, and you can use the screen to scroll through phone book etc, so it is working just not displaying correctly. I then pulled over and switched the car off, the screen went black but continued to flicker and didn't fold down even after the key was removed!

I continued my journey, with it flickering, and again it stayed on black and flickering after the key was removed and locked up when I arrived!

Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? Or how to solve this one?

Sorry I've posted this in here and not the problem section, my thinking was more people would see it as I assume if it doesn't sort itself out I'm going to have a flat battery very soon!
 
Mine did this once about a year ago.

I just disconnected the battery for 10 mins. Been fine since
 
As DPG says try a battery reset mine wouldn't pop up for a while. I assumed it was dead and i had given up on it. Disconnected the battery for another job and bingo after putting the battery lead back on all was working again.
 
i have an issue with mine where the sat nav crashes and freezes the whole system. nothing works apart from the volume button. often it will reset into a really old looking blue/grey screen like it came from win 3.1 with no sat nav but all the radio functions. just leaving it for 15 mins or so usually sorts it out.
 
Thanks for the replies guys :)

Well late on last night i took the fuse out for the screen to make it so it wasnt on all last night and to prevent a flat battery, ive just popped the fuse back in now and hey presto its back how it should be :D

Modern tech eh?! We shall see how it goes!
 
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