I-Drive System Dead
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Well, after perusing this board and feeling good about the trouble free experience that I was having with my E60, the gremlins struck. My I-Drive will not start up, only get the BMW logo screen, which fades in and out. Tried the three finger salute, and nothing. Shut the car down several times and restarted, nothing. No radio, no control over the climate controls other than the manual dash controls. Locked up my "Bluetooth" phone, etc. So, I took Baby2 to the Doctor, and the Doctor said, "what did you do to your Baby." The Doctor said it may be a few days before he can diagnose the problem. So, he loaned me a X-5, and sent me on my way. We will see what happens next.
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Been there and done that, joepoole. The "doctor" kept it for 14 days and sent it back improperly programmed. Mine would try to boot for 10 seconds, go blank for 5 seconds, and recycle adnauseum. I was on a long all night drive and put my ball cap over the iDrive screen to keep my pupils from wearing out.
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My Ride: BMW 545iA Black Sapphire
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Originally Posted by JDN' date='Mar 3 2005, 08:29 PM
Been there and done that, joepoole.? The "doctor" kept it for 14 days and sent it back improperly programmed. Mine would try to boot for 10 seconds, go blank for 5 seconds, and recycle adnauseum. I was on a long all night drive and put my ball cap over the iDrive screen to keep my pupils from wearing out.
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Remind me Jim...was that out of the blue or after a software update??
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Originally Posted by joepoole' date='Mar 3 2005, 02:46 PM
Well, after perusing this board and feeling good about the trouble free experience that I was having with my E60, the gremlins struck.? My I-Drive will not start up, only get the BMW logo screen, which fades in and out.? Tried the three finger salute, and nothing.? Shut the car down several times and restarted, nothing.? No radio, no control over the climate controls other than the manual dash controls.? Locked up my "Bluetooth" phone, etc. So, I took Baby2 to the Doctor, and the Doctor said, "what did you do to your Baby."? The Doctor said it may be a few days before he can diagnose the problem.? So, he loaned me a X-5, and sent me on my way.? We will see what happens next.
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I am keeping my fingers crossed that this is the worst case scenario.
Joe :'(
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Mine went in to service for blank iDrive screen on Saturday. Service called yesterday to let me know they found three fault codes, all requiring different costly and hard to come by parts. BMW (NA or DE I am not sure which) told them to wait for roving super tech with special test gear to be sure of diagnosis. He is supposed to be there today. Expectation was Thursday or Friday return to operation.
Initial indication was a tearing of the display much like TV horizontal sync loss right after start up when leaving parking lot at work. Would come back for a few seconds, then do it again. About 60-120 seconds of this then a gradual disappearance of the screen (all black). I had some functionality such as stuck on SAT radio but could use SW button to change preset channels. After engine start the iDrive wheel would be loose, but after the typical boot up time it would have resistance all the time. It did not appear that there was any real control of iDrive, however.
Will post what the work order says.
They gave a ?05 745i as loaner. The Nav disk is the same as mine (2004-2) but the map display is not as feature rich and detailed (missing roads) as on my 6er. I have to suppose CIP version might impact this but would not expect it to impact the presence or absence of roads. Do not like 7s version of CC, E60/E63 version much better IMO. God the gearshift is the pits. In and up/down some for D or R and less so for N and push a button for P. I may just crash this thing before I get my 6er back.
Whoa Boy ? those comfort seats ? really nice.
Initial indication was a tearing of the display much like TV horizontal sync loss right after start up when leaving parking lot at work. Would come back for a few seconds, then do it again. About 60-120 seconds of this then a gradual disappearance of the screen (all black). I had some functionality such as stuck on SAT radio but could use SW button to change preset channels. After engine start the iDrive wheel would be loose, but after the typical boot up time it would have resistance all the time. It did not appear that there was any real control of iDrive, however.
Will post what the work order says.
They gave a ?05 745i as loaner. The Nav disk is the same as mine (2004-2) but the map display is not as feature rich and detailed (missing roads) as on my 6er. I have to suppose CIP version might impact this but would not expect it to impact the presence or absence of roads. Do not like 7s version of CC, E60/E63 version much better IMO. God the gearshift is the pits. In and up/down some for D or R and less so for N and push a button for P. I may just crash this thing before I get my 6er back.
Whoa Boy ? those comfort seats ? really nice.
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mine's at the "doctor" too - have a brand spanking new X3 ... supposed to be getting mine back tomorrow or friday ... hopefully not much later.
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