@amos1
We thought you were sick of us 'talking in tongues', lol! Hope you're feeling better.

Here's the walk-thru:

1. Take the pack you downloaded from my post #22 [or it's also in Loly's post #34 above], and extract Garmin.rar onto a clean mircroSD.

2. Look in Garmin\Updater\0972 and locate file named 'ldr.bin'. Delete that file.

3. Place the microSD in your 1490, ensuring the unit is completely off.

4. If you don't already have it, download from post #34 'Extract on Desktop.rar' and then do just that.

5. Drag the file '097201000620.rgn' onto 'Updater.exe', when it opens select the radio button 'USB Device'. Leave Updater window visible on your Desktop.

6. Plug a miniUSB cable into a rear port of the PC.

7. Hold the upper LH corner of the 1490's screen with your finger or thumb.

8. Plug the USB cable into the 1490.

9. Position your mouse cursor over 'OK' on Updater and when you see your unit details appear in the window next to 'USB Device' immediately click 'OK'.

10. Don't release the screen until you see 'Loader' appear on the screen. Let Updater finish completely.

11. Remove microSD and look if you have a file named '41_backup.bin' in the root and with a file 'update.log' in 0972 folder.

Don't upload the bin file yet if it's there. Just let us know if it is there or not, and also what the contents of the log file are [open it in NotePad or similar]. Hopefully it says:
Parsing "rrgn,41,1:/41_backup.bin"
Success
Parsing "reboot"