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I installed Autoroute and added a dongle to make it a lappie sat-nav but it doesn't want to work. Now the lappie is a Toshiba (it's a cheapie) running Vista. It's got 1.5gb RAM and 60GB memory running 1.46ghz processor. I believe Vista needs 1gb to operate and Autoroute also needs 1gb to run, so my limited knowledge would suggest that I've overloaded it.
I've done the same install process on my "indoor" lappie which has 4gb and 2ghz and all works OK, but it's too big for use in the MH
So, first of all, does my reasoning stack up? If so then what do others use in the MH that's a sensible size for a laptop sat-nav?
______________________________________________________________ Blue Merle Border Collie - Meg - she´s got the brains
Chocolate Labrador - Jewel - about as daft as a daft thing can get
If it aint broke, break it
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Then life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
We chose a fairly old Dell D430 to run Autoroute 2011 with GPS and a 20MB POI file with all our pushpines combined. 1.2Ghz Dual Core (2Mb Cache) and 2Gb Ram and 40Gb Solid State hard drive (since regular hard drives can fail with constant bumps).
Reason being it's thinner then a netbook, with a bigger 12" Screen which is also mat black so no sun glare. Cost me about £100 off eBay and loaded XP since its must less resource hungary then bloated Vista.
It worked equally well on a Samsung NC10 netbook with the tiny Atom processor and 1GB of Ram so you shouldn't have any problems given your specification - unless you have a lot of other programs running in the background / tray.
You can go into RUN and type MSCONFIG, click startup and disable anything you can positively identify as running which you don't want to. Be careful though as you can disable things such as smart keys for volume control etc.
it runs AR but takes a while to load it, then wants to refresh continually which is why I'm assuming the memory RAM isn't sufficient. I don't know if anything else can be running but I'll go check tonight. As the laptop is about 50cm wider than is comfortable I'll still consider a new one.
______________________________________________________________ Blue Merle Border Collie - Meg - she´s got the brains
Chocolate Labrador - Jewel - about as daft as a daft thing can get
If it aint broke, break it
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Then life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
I presume your dongle is running at a Baud rate of 4,800bps or it wouldn't work on the "indoor" lappie.
And if you have got it to run on that one you know how to make it search for the correct COM port. It has never found it on first use for me without a boot up the ar$e!
I reckon your cheapie Toshiba should work fine, but as Addie says, you can't provide too much detail, and even then it's very difficult to diagnose at a distance. I also had it running on an NC10 with no problem, and now it works fine on an even "cheaper" basic Dell.
OK, once AR is up and loaded it will blank the screen regularly as though any movement means it needs to refresh in order to accomodate the movement rather than doing it as a seamless operation. This was as just AR alone without opening the pushpins option.
I think tonight I'll also try 'er indoors' version of the same laptop and see if that one has the same problems
if all else fails then it may need a drink of orange juice
______________________________________________________________ Blue Merle Border Collie - Meg - she´s got the brains
Chocolate Labrador - Jewel - about as daft as a daft thing can get
If it aint broke, break it
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Then life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
What setting have you got for video display - number of colours? It may take a while to redraw the screen if this is set too high, as video memory may be limited or it may use some of the system RAM.
Re: Autoroute problem, laptop not up to it? recommendations?
It's got 1.5gb RAM and 60GB memory running 1.46ghz processor. I believe Vista needs 1gb to operate and Autoroute also needs 1gb to run, so my limited knowledge would suggest that I've overloaded it.
I would have thought that it should be fine to run Autoroute and 1.5GB RAM is 50% more than the minimum. You don't aggregate the Vista minimum requirement to the application requirement - the system allocates its internal resources as needed. You need to make sure that nothing else is running and it might be worthwhile disabling any virus checkers to see if they are causing a problem. I also presume that you have plenty of spare disk capacity available? If all else fails, then I would do a full re-installation of Vista before replacing the laptop just for that reason.
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