I cannot get the EGT light to go off when starting #2.  One suggestion was to see if any failures were reported - I replied 'none', but then I realized I didn't really know if I had answered correctly. 

 

How do you know if a failure has been reported.

 

Another suggestion was that I may have inadvertently set a failure - I haven't learned a lot about failures yet, but I did find the page in my CDU - is there an 'all reset' for failures -   does 'clear all' or 'service all' in the maintenance do it?  Since I am not sure how to turn one on I don't know how to turn them off (though as I scan through I can't find an obvious problem). 

 

Another option is to delete and re-load the program, but I'm feeling a bit like that would be cheating....are there any thoughts out there?

From PMDG - Go to your FSX\Modules folder and see if there's an FSUIPC4.ini file there - if there is delete it and let FSX build a new one next time you run the sim. A lot of weird issues with the engines and throttle control are usually related to corruption of this file.