Magellan GPS 2000 Not Compatible?

I bought a Handheld GPS 2000 about a week ago off ebay Model PN62011

(I did own one of these before in the late 90s)

I set the date, 15 < 2015

And the time and everything else including of course the co-ordinates

When I go outside it says ''searching'' The whole bar fills up black, but never locks on...

Also, I notice when I do get a signal from a sat, the date I set gets reverted back to 1995...

Im thinking its not Compatible anymore, however, im in communication with a seller on ebay who says he is able to lock on, and even showed me a photo of the screen, and in fact he is locked on. His is a Magellan GPS 2000 also, Model 62010

Im very confused why his GPS can lock on, but mine cant, I do notice that on the front of his screen, it says EUROP, and on mine it says OFT...

Well that just explains it in a nutshell, if anyone can advise me that would be great

Thanks

 

Similar problem- I've had this unit for more than 20 years and it still works fine except-

Until the batteries went flat a few years ago and it self-initialized to the "new" default settings, it was able to keep up with the year. However, since then, I cannot get past Y2K and am currently at 30NOV97.
Would it help if I removed the batteries and let the built-in battery/capacitor go flat and then go through the initialization process? Now, if I try to initialize it remembers the erroneous date and doesn't provide the option to set it.

Is this the only computer to have succumbed to the dreaded Y2K crash?