Lowrance LCX26 HD Rebooting with Navionics Chip

[walleyeguy13]

Wondering if any of you have experienced this.

Just bought the latest Navionics North SD card. Put it in my Lowrance 334c and checked it out. Worked fine. So I wanted to get it in my Lowrance LCX26 HD. I first ran the GPS receiver update and then the 2.1 update for the unit. Then I put in the chip. When I hit the power the unit would start and then beep but then basically freeze then restart, freeze restart, etc.

I pulled the card out, booted fine without any cards, booted fine with the LakeMaster card.

Looking for some clues.

Thanks.

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[walleyeguy13]

Interesting...

I brought the chip home and put in in my 334c and it worked fine. THEN I ran the "Freshest Data" update from the Navionics website. Appeared to work fine... I even downloaded the PC application and browsed the data from the chip.

Then I tried it in the LCX 26c and it forced the thing to reboot constantly. So I plugged it back into the 334c and it freezes that one up as well now. I am guessing that the Navionics data update somehow hosed the chip in terms of working with the Lowrance units?

I'm running the update again. Oddly enough, the program recognizes the fact that it is a "North" card. Wonder why the Lowrance would be having trouble.

[Hawker]

It would appear that the download update from Navionics "may" be corrupt, or a portion of it! I think I'd give Cust Support @ Navionics a call tomorrow and see if they have some insight to what may have happened! Hope they can help you get it figured out and resolved, they have been most helpful to me in the past!

[walleyeguy13]

Originally Posted by Hawker

It would appear that the download update from Navionics "may" be corrupt, or a portion of it! I think I'd give Cust Support @ Navionics a call tomorrow and see if they have some insight to what may have happened! Hope they can help you get it figured out and resolved, they have been most helpful to me in the past!

Waiting for the latest update attempt to complete. If this fails I'll be giving Navionics a shout for sure. Definitely something awry with the chip after the update.

[walleyeguy13]

Fair warning to those with older Lowrance units. It seems that there are going to be few if any options for us to get compatible charts from the big two.

Called Navionics on this issue this morning and was told that they were surprised that the chip worked at all (even though it was last year's chip). I assured them that it did before I ran the update, but they are now claiming that Lowrance just recently let them know that they should list the HotMaps Premium maps as "not compatible" with anything but the HDS units.

So now I guess I'm in the market for a used Navionics card with Lac Seul!

PS... I should mention that Navionics has agreed to issue a refund for the product I purchased.