Testing GPS

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Originally Posted by Toughbook

Action... What else do you have enabled in the BIOS? Have you tried disabling the irDA? You might try that. Also... Make sure to check your dipswitches. Make sure that the one closest to you is the only one on. Dumb question... but did you install the driver for it? Hmmmm... what else.... Oh... Go here... http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php and download PC Wizard 2007. It has helped me out in several instances!

Hi all, been some time now hey. I'm back home again from being O/S and got my life sorted out now to the piont where I can get back to the hobbies again .

So this is where I'm at now. After getting burned by an ebay seller who didnt know how to cheak the CF28 for the right model No, what I thought I got was a CF28 1K was just a normal non-touch CF28 800Mz. Turned out that the pic of the lapy where not the ones he was selling.
Not happy but at lest I have a spare base now.....

My Bios is set to:
All Ports set to Enable with GPS: I/O IRQ: 2E8/IRQ10, and IrDA Disabled.

Hardware
GPS
Dipset is the same as eveyone else, Eg number 4 is ON all others are set to OFF.
Modem has been taken out, As I will be puting my Wifi card back in there after I have got this all working.

Win XP SP3 settings
Com port 4 is set to 2E8/IRQ10, with port settings of Bps of 4800, data bits 8, Parity None, Stop bits 1, Flow control Hardware.
Panasonic GPS Filter Driver is installed, tho then I set it to filter enabled in Device Manager, it never seams to stay that way.
Uninstalled the Microsoft Serial BallPoint mouse driver, as I use the touchsreen over the pad anyways.

Software that I'm using is Gpsinfo and WINCE, both show me a GPS Receiver on Com4. Also shows me that all to same mass of info as its looking for a fix when there runing. So i'm back to where I started again lol. Thinking that the antenta is stuffed up and/or that the GPS moduel is not up to the job. Tho on a side note, the time on the GPSinfo is the right time here, but the time on the WINCE is very wrong and I cant change it at all.

Dam I have a lot of reading to do to chatch up on with the other GPS threads.
I guess no one has come up with a "GPS Kit" for these yet?

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update....
Got it working today after leaving it out side for a few hours as I worked on one of my cars.

Got up to 5 satalites locked, but very touchy if there was anything covering the pickup area. But was a good 3 locked all the time and up to 5 showing in blue.


2nd update,
Just spent about 10mins outside and now have all 8 locked on.