How do you manually reset a lowrance eliite 5

here is the link to your the lowrance web site. the trouble shooting guide says that if you tried to it on another boat than you might need to take it in for service. but there is a section that explains how to do a soft reset on the unit. you might try that.

http://www.lowrance.com/en/Support/Troubleshooting-Guide/Depth-Reading/

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Here is the manual..

Lowrance 4 Installation And Operation Instructions Manual

Hi Pieter

The problem here is that the unit has no idea where it is on the planet.
I think your best bet would be to reset the unit to factory defaults (page 11 of the owner's manual) and THEN use the setup wizard (page 6) to reinitialize the device.
Link to owner's manual provided below in case you or anyone else requires it.

Hope this helps and good luck!
-Steve


http://www.lowrance.com/Root/Lowrance-Documents/US/ELITE-5_HDI_OM_EN_988-10518-001_w.pdf

If you turn on the "fish I.D. mode" in your sonar options then you will be able to turn on the fish alarm as well. Lowrance HDS 5x Gen2 Fishfinder
This a link to a pic file for your owners manual.
Go to page 67 to, see how to access and enable/disable alarms for your unit.

Water depth should show automatically on your sonar page.
if it does not then either you have selected "stop sonar" under your sonar options or you have opted to turn off the depth displayou so the numbers don't show up.
if you areally viewing your GPS or split screen sonar/GPS page, sometimes the depth display is not visible on these pages unless you specifically instruct the unit to display it.
Lowrance HDS 5 Gen2 Fishfinder GPS Chartplotter
Here is a link to Lowrance where you can download a pic version of the operators manual.
Go to page 11 "overlay data" this will give you a step by step of how to add data or readouts to different screens.

Make sure that your battery is fully charged. Try a hard reset if it still won't start up.
This will erase all user information on the device, so you will have to set it up again.
With the unit off, press and hold the zoom in (+) zoom out (-) and power buttons. Release the buttons when the map displays.
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I think I can help with your issue. I have an LMS 334c and have had a few issues in the past. Called the factory (this answer is not listed any where in your manual) and they instructed me to "Soft Re Boot" my unit and it would put everything back to factory settings. Try this anytime it does not respond for whatever reason.

Turn the unit off.

At the same time press the Pages and Power button. Hold both down until you see the square box come up in the screen. You should have your factory settings again. May need to try a few times.
Lowrance said it works just like a computer, ever now and then it just tries to disect to much information at one time and hangs up.
Good luck. James Cantwell

Copy & paste the URL, I have provided below, to your web browser & take will take you to Lowrance's manual download page. You'll find the !way 250C listed there.

Good luck.

http://www.lowrance.com/Downloads/Manuals/