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B+ starts to boot and then shows black screen

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 9:48 pm
by nevadinova
Hi there!

I'm experiencing strange issues with my raspberry pi b+. I got it hooked up to a pc monitor with an hdmi to dvi (24+1) cable and whenever I start the pi the screen shows at least a glimps of a logo screen (Noobs [rainbow screen] & OpenElec [logo]) and then goes blank. It doesn't turn off, it's just a black screen. After putting Raspbian on the sd card, it shows a few lines of text, but then also switches to a black screen.
I tried all kinds of settings in the config.txt (hdmi_mode/safe/hotplug,etc) but it doesn't seem to have an effect on the problem of the screen going black. I also tried different power supplies but nothing helps...

Any kind of assistance would be highly appreciated!

Thank a lot!

Re: B+ starts to boot and then shows black screen

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 7:29 pm
by raspm28
I will recommend that you attach a console cable to your rpi and then boot, to see what's going on, so you have a change to see what's happen. There is a lot of information around on how-to attach a console cable - the dmesg output could be og great help.