I have just purchased the GNS2-430 to try out in my FS2004 installation (I have all the old legacy RXP gauges). The installation proceeded without incident, and I did a test install via the Configuration utility for a pop-up window of the GNS430 in the default Cessna.

The unit appears but it has no power - the main screen is black. The power button does not appear to work.

I then exited FS9 and found the Garmin trainer (C:\Program Files (x86)\Garmin\GNS Trainer\GNS) and launched the G530SIM.EXE file. Again, the software works, but the trainer unit is not powering on. I hope someone can help or this will be a disappointing Christmas gift to myself!

 

Graeme

Hi Graeme,

The GNS Trainer won't run standalone, this is expected and explained in other discussions in this forum.

Like explained in the 'Troubleshooting' chapter of the User's Manual, can you please post the content of the 'rxp' log files?

Thanks for the reply. I tried the flight sim a few hours later, and the gauge is now working! I think my antivirus program (NOD32) had 'quarentined' some files during installation, which I discovered and re-instated. Perhaps that was causing the problem?

Contents of rxpGNS2.gau.log:

17/12/24 08:10:05.345 06892 -    ] # rxpGNS2.GAU version 2.3.8.0
17/12/24 08:10:05.345 06892 INFO ] 

Contents of rxpGNS2_menu.dll.log:
 

17/12/24 08:07:21.370 07672 -    ] # rxpGNS2_menu.dll version 2.0.6.0
17/12/24 08:07:21.377 07672 INFO ] edit panel: D:\Flight Simulator 9\AIRCRAFT\c172\panel\panel.cfg
17/12/24 08:07:21.388 07672 ERROR] failed to copy: D:\Flight Simulator 9\AIRCRAFT\c172\RealityXP.GNS.ini to: C:\Users\Graeme\AppData\Local\Temp\rxpDCB2.tmp
17/12/24 08:07:21.394 07672 ERROR] The system cannot find the file specified., code: 00000002
17/12/24 08:10:04.330 07772 INFO ] 
17/12/24 08:10:04.335 07772 INFO ] edit panel: D:\Flight Simulator 9\AIRCRAFT\c172\panel\panel.cfg

Content of rxpGNSSim.dll.log:

17/12/24 08:10:05.603 06892 -    ] # rxpGnsSim32.dll version 2.3.8.0
17/12/24 08:10:05.602 06892 INFO ] 
 

 

Anyway - all seems to be working now. So Happy Christmas!

Graeme

1 hour ago, graemeb said:

I think my antivirus program (NOD32) had 'quarentined' some files during installation, which I discovered and re-instated. Perhaps that was causing the problem?

Yes most likely, this is the reason.

1 hour ago, graemeb said:

17/12/24 08:07:21.388 07672 ERROR] failed to copy: D:\Flight Simulator 9\AIRCRAFT\c172\RealityXP.GNS.ini to: C:\Users\Graeme\AppData\Local\Temp\rxpDCB2.tmp

This is peculiar and will be reviewed: either this is trying to copy the destination file to the source file (wrong), or it is just the 'print' statement to the log file which is swapping the two paths.