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Old 07-22-2008, 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by s4iscool' post='629822' date='Jul 22 2008, 10:35 AM
I dont think the dealers discount the NAV discs, thats what I remember when I tried to order from Gary
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Originally Posted by smoak' post='629502' date='Jul 21 2008, 07:20 PM
My idrive hesitates some times, is ther a way to make it quick. Also, where can I get a 2008 DVD for a decent price?
Try cleaning your NAV DVD or maybe try a new one or a clean copy of your old one. I was running with what I thought was a good back-up copy of my NAV DVD and iDrive just kept getting slower & slower. I put the original NAV DVD back in and iDrive resumed operating with reasonable response times. The bad DVD was apparently causing a lot of retries and it slowed down the entire iDrive operation.
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Originally Posted by smoak' post='629502' date='Jul 21 2008, 06:20 PM
Is there a way to make my iDrive faster than windows 98?
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Old 07-23-2008, 02:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Dandle' post='629758' date='Jul 22 2008, 01:50 PM
Your car wont be third generation iDrive with just an update. It has different hardware too I believe(as fitted to LCI cars).
Thanks, I realise that but I did say 'based on' - the document did seem to say that there would be some improvement to 2nd gen, so I guess the proof of the pudding etc.

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Originally Posted by saintalan' post='630570' date='Jul 23 2008, 06:46 AM
Thanks, I realise that but I did say 'based on' - the document did seem to say that there would be some improvement to 2nd gen, so I guess the proof of the pudding etc.

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I read the same article a while ago and didn't re-read it when seeing this thread but I didn't take "improvements" to idrive to mean improvements in speed, just the interface.
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Originally Posted by Brit_in_NJ' post='630604' date='Jul 23 2008, 01:48 PM
I read the same article a while ago and didn't re-read it when seeing this thread but I didn't take "improvements" to idrive to mean improvements in speed, just the interface.
My comments were based on "The new generation iDrive is much faster but older cars (those with Generation 2 iDrive systems) will still see a somewhat faster response time once the car?s software is updated."

Anyway this time next week I should be able to see for myself.

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