"Unfurled1" wrote in message
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Windows will not start properly [cursor jumps around etc.] when GPS
[garmin
48 or garmin 120] is connected to the computer [tried two different
laptops
via DB9 serial port] with operating system Windows XP. This does not
happen
if the GPS is not set to nmea output [none/none or grmn/grmn] even if it
is
connected to the laptop while booting up. Any ideas? Is it a Win XP
problem?
Thanks,
Dan

When Microsoft produced the all-singiing all-dancing Win XP, they
conveniently forgot about GPS. This could have been avoided by Bill Gates
buying out Garmin and Magellan, but he was too busy looking at other
aquisitions. There is indeed a fix on the Microsoft site, but an alternative
fix is either to go back to Win98 or Win ME, or simply plug the GPS into the
serial port after your GPS-linking programme has loaded.

It's hard to believe Microsoft could have made so stupid and elementary a
mistake as to believe that serial mice were still in use, and were the main
things likely to be plugged into the serial port. Just shows they ain't
infallible.

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