Model b not showing anything on screen (help) !!!

[borgc44]

Got my pi the other day managed to load image file on to sd card and plugged in to test using VGA monitor n nothing ? Does mouse n keyboard need to be connected for it to work or am I doing something wrong with image on sd card ?

[itimpi]

The Pi does not have a VGA output, so how we're you connecting it?

[borgc44]

Using video out to a USB capture card , sorry not VGA

[texy]

Probably the sd card, but I would rule out the USB capture device first. Are you able to hook the Pi to a hdmi capable monitor/tv to prove it?
Texy

[borgc44]

Will try at gf house tmoz is there an approved list of sd cards you can use , I'm using a Panasonic 4gb class 10 sdhc card , when yu format it should it be NTfs or fat32 ?

[Vindicator]

The first partition should be a fat partition and the other one or 2 will be an ext4 and if you have a third partition it will most likely be swap.

[texy]

Note you don't have to format the sd card. Use one of the approved methods of writing the Pi image to the sd card and it takes care of it. Then the first partition can been seen by a windows of and be approx 74mb.
Texy

[borgc44]

Done that and still nothing ! After righting to card should I be able to see contents of card on my pc , when I plug card into card reader it asks me do I wish to format ? Think I'm going to just order the pre installed sd card lol

[itimpi]

If you havecorrectly written your SD card then you should be able to see a small 74MB partition thatcontains the Pi boot files. What software are you using to write the card? Also what card reader/writer? I have found that i get far better results with an external device such as http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000 ... 01_s00_i00 (or an equivalent). Having such a device is useful as once you have your Pi working you can write SD cards directly on the Pi with such a device.

One problem with getting a pre-installed card is that it will almost certainy come with out-of-date software on it. With the rate at which the Pi system software is still advancing then this can matter. You will therefore definitely want a way to write your own SD cards at some point.