Hi,

 

I was hoping someone could help me out. I have a Skoda OEM Continental (manufacturer) sat nav model number 1Z0 035 680A. It has given up i.e. press power button to turn on and nothing happens. I have looked on Ebay and seen that you can buy a Power supply board for it but want to know if there is any way of knowing if this is where the fault lies before purchasing it. I have taken the PSU board out and had a look but see no visible signs of component failure. The fuse in the car and on the back of the unit were both intact.

 

Best Regards,

 

James.

Most likely the main board mate. I've not had to do any replacements of the power board. If it's the main board then realistically the unit is scrap as a new board is over £200, then fitting and reloading firmware/maps, recoding etc. makes it more than the cost of a working unit.

That's not the best news! Do you know where I could get a main board from? I wouldn't think twice about getting a new unit but I like the maxidot integration.

Cheers,

James.

Like i told you in PM it probably is the mainboard.

 

I have a unit, if you drop of your unit off I will swop the PSU and mainboard to confirm what is faulty

Hi All,

I'm new here but hopefully someone can help me with an answer. I have a Skoda Superb MY2009 with a Rev B Columbus RNS-510 unit. Following the advice I tried to update the firmware with the 3810 noru version. The upgrade process went well until it reached the gateway section (at around 80%) where the unit rebooted, and after a minute the DVD was ejected. From this point no response, just a blank screen even the button backlights don't work. I've tried to reset the HU but no luck. Maybe I made a wrong move and inserted the DVD, and now I end up with a bricked unit with a DVD in it. I have a VCDS code reader but I keep getting "no response from the controller" message when connecting to either the Radio or Navigation module. 

There was no problem before the upgrade, and as like as a lot of our fellow forum members I just wanted to have 7 digit postcode and a newer map. 

Has anybody met this issue previously? Does this mean that I have to replace the unit? 

The unit was HW 0004, SW 1104 before attempting the upgrade.

 

Any comment would be appreciated guys!

Something similar happened to me when I was changing firmware. It crashed at the gateway update stage and it meant I couldn't properly access the unit through the touchscreen, the maxidot or vcds. Basically this is because the gateway can no longer communicate with it.

I would try to refresh the firmware to 4020 for older European Units on rnsfirmware.com. If your lucky the unit will read the disc and update and be reachable by the gateway. If your not, as I wasn't, then it will need firmeare flashing to it using RNS manager software or similar. Not sure where you are but I used hazzydayz.com who were very helpful to do this.

Adam

Hi Adamal,

 

Thanks for your response. It's now sorted out. I was panicking obviously, tried all possible ways to reset the unit but it seemed to be completely dead. After waiting about 30-40 minutes I decided to turn the igntion on, and a little later the unit started booting up. So I quickly ejected the DVD and ran Josi's recovery SWL what successfully finished, and the unit was up and running again. Then I was trying to do the upgrade again, but I've got a VUC library failed message at the end. Tried to burn another CD, and DVD with the lowest speed possible (2x DVD, 4x CD) but always the same result. In the meantime I googled for this message and found somebody mentioned that he's got the same issue if the DVD was not created in TAO (Track At Once) mode. And voila: burn a disc in TAO mode and FW 4020 (from rnsfirmware.com) did the trick. However I'm still not sure if it caused by the FW or the TAO.

 

The lesson for me is: don't panic but read the forums and you'll find the solution.