Thank you for the information. I feel for you, as it seems not many others are reporting these kinds of problems. You may be like my wife. I believe her body generates an "EM" field that seems to affect any electronics she uses. We share this computer, and she has a ton of problems, and I have very few. She has trouble with her satellite receiver for TV, while I have none, and if I check hers, it works fine for me. I also worked with another individual who had the same problem. Her work computer crashed for what seemed to be no reason at all. I was there training her on some software, and she could barely keep the software running on her machine. I would take control, and have no problem. ANNNNDDD, it's not like I am advanced in anyway...LOL. She would hit the exact buttons, or press the buttons, in the exact order I would instruct, but the machine would just shut down.

Hopefully the replacement will work, and it will have been a case of your having a lemon that has now been replaced. Otherwise, if you do produce one of these EM fields, you will soon experience the same type problems. I hope that is not the case.

It will likly be a couple of years or so before I buy a new boat, and will undoubtedly wait to get the SI unit until then. I hope before then I will have the chance to fish with someone who has one of these units and see how they work first hand.

Good luck, and tight lines.

HDF