SD Card

[tobysmith]

Hi,

I reacently bought a new rassbery pi model b. I quickly plugged in all the cables in the appropiate order and nothing was on the screen. The FDX, PWR and the 100 was lit and the LNK was flashing and the ACT flashed then went off. My SD car is 4gb and i wrote it tried it then rewrote it but the ACT led still did not light or anything was displayed on the monitor connected by a HDMI cable. Help Please!!!!

[FTrevorGowen]

Hi,
I reacently bought a new rassbery pi model b. I quickly plugged in all the cables in the appropiate order and nothing was on the screen. The FDX, PWR and the 100 was lit and the LNK was flashing and the ACT flashed then went off. My SD car is 4gb and i wrote it tried it then rewrote it but the ACT led still did not light or anything was displayed on the monitor connected by a HDMI cable. Help Please!!!!

How did you write the SD card - tools? platform?
Unless the ACT LED has flashed for several seconds the Pi will NOT have booted from the SD card and will not be able to display on an HDMI monitor. Your "short flash" suggests that either the SD card image has not been written correctly or the card is not making good electrical contact. More info. on LED status etc. can be found in the wiki at http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting .
Trev.

[bltsandwich1]

As someone who botched their first install I can say the place where you probably have messed up is the image, make sure you are using win32diskimager (if you're on a PC) and not simply copying the .img file. Also, make sure you turn your TV on first (not sure of the technical reason, but this has caused me problems in the past).

If none of these (or the above) solutions work, let us know more about your setup, ie. distro, where you are writing the image from, etc.

Cheers!

[tobysmith]

Hi, thanks evreyone
I figured the problem with the screen but even after rewriting the SD card twice it did not work. When i wrote the SD card I first downloaded the file then extracted it using WinRar and then wrote it on the disk using Win32DiskImager.
Anyone know why rassberry whezzy wont work?
(I am trying onther operating sytym even though its not for begginers)

[RaTTuS]

http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting# ... F_Start-up

[tobysmith]

Hi Again,

I then downloaded a Linux operating sytym and then found it diffucult so reinstalled rasbery whezzy but then none of the lights came on??????

[RaTTuS]

what files can you see on the windows machine when you look at the sd card

[tobysmith]

what files can you see on the windows machine when you look at the sd card

i can see: bootcode.bin,cmdline,config,fixup.dat,fixup_cd.dat,fixup_x.dat,issue,kernel,kernel_emergancey,start.elf,start_cd.elf,start_x.elf.

[malakai]

Hi Again,

I then downloaded a Linux operating sytym and then found it diffucult so reinstalled rasbery whezzy but then none of the lights came on??????

None of the lights? That would indicate no power. Are you using a 5v 1Amp power supply? The files shown in Windows typically indicate the card was written to properly it's not a guarantee but at this point you would need to get a power light and a flashing green LED above that. Count the blinks if it still does not boot. Or look for it to glow very faint.

[Burngate]

... nothing was on the screen. The FDX, PWR and the 100 was lit and the LNK was flashing and the ACT flashed then went off...

With the FDX, LNK, and 100 leds alight / flashing, I'd say you've got a booted system (ACT only flashes when the SD card is being accessed)
I would be looking at a problem with the HDMI

Try modifying config.txt, first off by putting in (or uncommenting - remove the # at the beginning of the line) hdmi_safe=1
That should at least get you started