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Thank you all for your help.

Okay, so as all is working well it look like on advisement that the firmware upgrade can be shelved for the time being. Thakn you. So now to the Maps update! Just waiting for the dual layer DVDs to arrive to try that out.

Thank you both. Rustynuts (just love that name) from searching the forums you seem to go to guru on this subject. Yes the file does show up on my PC as a Winzip file and burned to the DVD as a winzip file. I did burn the file to dvd using the windows default software. I will try again with imgburn. As to whether I should do it? Does it not enable me to use DAB radio where as currently I cannot or does that need another unit? I read the patch notes which suggest DAB is enabled.

Local dealership said it would cost £300 to upgrade my maps and suggested that there are better options them then for this! After lots of online research I decided to update the firmware from H4120 to 5274. I have the zipped file RNS_510_FW_5274_update.iso and have burned this to a DVD at lowest speed. When I put the DVD in the unit (no keys in iginition) it whirs around and then after 20-30 seconds comes back with a CD/DVD error. The unit will play a normal music CD without problems. I tried a different make of DVD and got the same error. I understood that there was no need to unzip the file as a file with the ISO extension should unzip itself. Am I wrong? I checked the contents of the unzipped folder and there is no executable type file in there so the zipped Is seemed the way to do it. Also wondering if a dual layer DVD will also not work when I try the maps update after the firmware update. Some research suggests that the laser in the Columbus is a bit poor. could this be why the music CDs work but not the DVD? Any pointers to help me load the firmware and maps V16 update appreciated.

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