R-Pi Startup Problem
Howdy;
I recently got an R-Pi, and after a bit of a wait, I finally got the stuff to make it work. Or so I thought. Ok, so I plug in the micro USB Power plug, the red power light comes on, and the ACT light blinks randomly, sort of like the light on a hard drive, and after a bit, quits, leaving just the power light on. The NTSC TV I have for a moniter, displays nothing. It has 3 inputs. One is a std screw in with a socket for a stiff wire, (the std antenna line). The other two are RCA types, one for video, one for audio. All three work fine with my DVD/VCR machine. I have the std three line RCA cables, and one with the antenna plug on one end, and an RCA plug on the other. Neither cable sets seem to be the problem. I got the Pi from Amazon, and the NOOBS card from Newark. I've followed the advice of one website, and tried holding the, "4", key down during startup, and then again later holding the, "Shift 4", keys down, but neither got a working display going. I'm beginning to think I've got a faulty Pi, but have no idea of how to check for sure. Anyone know whats going on here? Bill |
Do you (or a friend!) have a monitor with HDMI or DVI input that you can try first before deciding it's a faulty Pi?
I've also had Pi with the normal distro that refused to boot until one of the config files on the SD card was edited, not sure if this is the same for NOOBS card. http://elinux.org/RPiconfig has details of how the config file is used to simulate normal "BIOS" settings. |
TenTenths Wrote:
>Do you (or a friend!) have a monitor with HDMI or DVI >input that you can try first before deciding it's a faulty >Pi? Unfortunately, no. >I've also had Pi with the normal distro that refused to >boot until one of the config files on the SD card was >edited, not sure if this is the same for NOOBS card. I don't think it's supposed to be, at least it isn't mentioned in what I've read about it so far. >http://elinux.org/RPiconfig has details of how the config >file is used to simulate normal "BIOS" settings. Thanks, that gave me an idea I should have thought of allready. I put the sd card in my card reader, and ran a diff on /media/usb0/config.txt and /media/usb0/config.txt.ntsc_northamerica, and the two files are identical, indicating that the Pi detected no HDMI, and defaulted to NTSC. So, does that mean that the NTSC output is at fault, or what? Bill |
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