I've done a search for this, and I haven't found a solution to it yet.

Story:

I was driving home today, and I noticed that my main navi screen turned off, and turned back on. The audio was working and everything, however, when I went into the navigation screen, it said "Check hard disk." What's even more weird is that when I removed the negative terminal off of the battery and put it back on, the navi somewhat worked. I could gain access to the destination options, but it would freeze, and an error would come up stating "check card" or something of the sort.

Someone PLEASE help, I don't want to end up going to a stealership and having to pay over $1k for a stupid card or hard drive.

 

STOP PMING ME SELLING ME YOUR HARD DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Help me with this problem, not WASTE my time reading your bogus PMs.

 

So did you happen to fix the problem, i called my local dealership and its 260 for the update which i dont want to spend but i might have to. Someone said to remove the hard drive and try tapping and blowing in it like an old nintendo cartridge, i have a custom trunk so its going to be a pain to get in there you might want to try it and let me know if it works...

 

It seems like the OEM Nav hard drives last a long time, I still have my original one from 1998 and still works fine. So its a 10 year old drive.

 

I've been busy as heck you guys hah. I haven't had time to do anything! I'm on CL at night :P I'll try taking the ECU out when my parents leave for Canada so they don't BS about me not knowing about what I'm doing :P

 

well, let me know if the tap and blow idea works.

 

The blow idea did not work. =[ However, I did take apart the navi console area, and unplugged, then replugged everything in. I can get the options and other menus to work, however, when I hit map guide, it gives me the same error. =[

Do you guys think an update is at hand?

 

Man that sucks, well i been looking on ebay and Craigslist and also Tap Recy and still no navi hardrive, i think it might be best for the update for $260.00

 

This may sound simple...but did you check the nav disk?? I just replaced mine with the new 7.1 update and the old disk was somewhat scratched. May be just a cleaning issue...who knows. My way is try the simple stuff first. Tap and blow is a bad idea as any comp geek will tell you...ok I just admitted something. Dust off or whatever is better idea.

Good luck

 

I'm thinking of just replacing the navi with a AVIC-D3 But! I have to find someone who's willing to help me install it! >_<