Garmin GPS not "Talking" to Memory Map on Notebook

[joybennett]

Help please!

We have a small notebook computer on board running XP which has memory maps on it.
It is interfaced with Garmin GP152 GPS but, at present, won't connect - the hardware device is showing a ? yellow conflict against it. As a result, the boat's position is not showing up on Multi-Map or the Antares charts which are installed.

Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to sort this out?

Many thanks from a very frustrated sailor

 

[Fantasie 19]

Help please!

We have a small notebook computer on board running XP which has memory maps on it.
It is interfaced with Garmin GP152 GPS but, at present, won't connect - the hardware device is showing a ? yellow conflict against it. As a result, the boat's position is not showing up on Multi-Map or the Antares charts which are installed.

Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to sort this out?

Many thanks from a very frustrated sailor

On my old Garmin GPS72 the baud rate you connect at is key.. 9600 from memory.. try setting different baud rates on the GPS and see if it then connects?

 

[joybennett]

Thank you - I'll try that at the weekend

 

[earlybird]

Another point is that your GPS may have defaulted to Garmin Data output, which is a proprietary format. If so, the notebook will require this to be reset to NMEA output

 

[NickRobinson]

You need to set both ends to Garmin to send routes, then back to nmea if you have a cockpit repeater.
Your virtual serial port number may have changed itself, MMap settings gives the right one, re-set it on the lappy

 

[rbmatthews]

Has your system been working and just stopped, or has it never worked?

If the former, then what changes have been made recently that might have stopped it from working?

If the latter, although not quite the same setup as you, we connected a BlueNet GPS dongle to a netbook running Memory Map. The details of how we did this are at https://shetlandf4.wordpress.com/chart-plotter/ which might give you some pointers to try with your setup.