Vista HCx won't power on with SD card fitted

workhard · 02-27-2010, 10:18 AM

Hi guys,

My first post so be gentle please. Newbie to GPS which I intend to use for cycling

Week old Garmin Vista HCx with a 2Gb Kingston SD card fitted. On the card were a complete set of OpenCycleMap maps on it. Wanted to added City Nav 2010 maos for GB & Ireland.

paid for downlaod version, attempted to download it. The download failed about 2/3rds of way through. Tried again. Failed, again. Noticed after second attempt the map on the display looked odd. Bit of searching suggested a reset which should reindex the card. Powered unit off. Now when powered on with the card in the garmin screen displays for a second or two and then the unit just shuts down. Without the card fitted it appears to work fine but now only has a a very basic map on it. A reset can be done without the card no problem.

Has my SD card, and maps on it got corrupted beyond fixing? Help, advice, sympathy, all gratefully received. Feeling pretty stupid right now.

Andy · 02-27-2010, 1:23 PM

Sounds like the file is corrupt on the card. Did the download failbecause of lack of space? The Vista HCx doesn't support multiple map files on a single card. You will probably need a separate card for City Nav and Open Cycle Maps. Are the Open Cycle Maps loaded via Mapsource or Mapinstall? If they are you may be able to combine both mapsets into a single mapdata file.

Can you open the SD card's directory on your computer and delete the partial City Nav file? Maybe that is causing it to hang on startup.

workhard · 02-27-2010, 1:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Andy

Sounds like the file is corrupt on the card. Did the download failbecause of lack of space?

shouldn't have done there was about 1.5Gb free space and the download claimed to be 250ish Mb.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy

The Vista HCx doesn't support multiple map files on a single card. You will probably need a separate card for City Nav and Open Cycle Maps.

OK That I can try, if I get another card I guess.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy

Are the Open Cycle Maps loaded via Mapsource or Mapinstall? If they are you may be able to combine both mapsets into a single mapdata file.

Can't say. They show up on screen as MapSource maps fwiw

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy

Can you open the SD card's directory on your computer and delete the partial City Nav file? Maybe that is causing it to hang on startup.

don't have a micro SD card reader on my pc, will have to wait to check that at work on Monday.

Thanks

02-27-2010, 10:18 AM	#1
workhard Join Date: Feb 27 2010 Location: West Sussex, UK Posts: 2	Vista HCx won't power on with SD card fitted Hi guys, My first post so be gentle please. Newbie to GPS which I intend to use for cycling Week old Garmin Vista HCx with a 2Gb Kingston SD card fitted. On the card were a complete set of OpenCycleMap maps on it. Wanted to added City Nav 2010 maos for GB & Ireland. paid for downlaod version, attempted to download it. The download failed about 2/3rds of way through. Tried again. Failed, again. Noticed after second attempt the map on the display looked odd. Bit of searching suggested a reset which should reindex the card. Powered unit off. Now when powered on with the card in the garmin screen displays for a second or two and then the unit just shuts down. Without the card fitted it appears to work fine but now only has a a very basic map on it. A reset can be done without the card no problem. Has my SD card, and maps on it got corrupted beyond fixing? Help, advice, sympathy, all gratefully received. Feeling pretty stupid right now.

02-27-2010, 1:23 PM	#2
Andy Survey Says? Join Date: Dec 29 2006 Location: Monterey, CA Posts: 1,725	Re: Vista HCx won't power on with SD card fitted Sounds like the file is corrupt on the card. Did the download failbecause of lack of space? The Vista HCx doesn't support multiple map files on a single card. You will probably need a separate card for City Nav and Open Cycle Maps. Are the Open Cycle Maps loaded via Mapsource or Mapinstall? If they are you may be able to combine both mapsets into a single mapdata file. Can you open the SD card's directory on your computer and delete the partial City Nav file? Maybe that is causing it to hang on startup.

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