New Raspberry Pi........... No Picture

[ewiggin]

I just received a new Raspberry Pi the other day and finally got around to getting it set up. I followed the tutorial and set up the SD card, although the install process literally took 2 seconds when the tutorial said it would take a few minutes. I did receive the success message. I then inserted the SD card into the Raspberry Pi, plugged in a USB keyboard, and on my first try I decided to use composite video. After connecting the composite cable to the Pi and my TV I plugged in the power. No picture. I re-seated the cables and power off and on and still no picture. I then decided to try using HDMI. 1st HDMI cable and all three ports on my TV resulted in no picture. Second HDMI cable and all three ports on my TV resulted in no picture. All of my other devices that I use these cables for display a picture on my TV on all ports. I have yet to try any other device as I do not have another monitor that will work with my Pi. I would appreciate any help that anyone can offer.

[jamesh]

The creation of the SD card should definitely take more than a couple of seconds - the SD card simply cannot be written that fast, so I think that is where your problem lies - the SD card isn't set up correctly. When you turn on do you just get the red power light - any other LED's lighting up? If none- that usually points to the SD card not being valid.

[ewiggin]

Just the red LED. Honestly I am glad that means the SD was not set up correctly as I was thinking I had messed something else up. I will try to set it up again and see what happens. Thanks for the reply!

[ewiggin]

I used the Win32DiskImager referenced on this site; (FYI, the link in the PDF explaining how to set up a Raspberry Pi that points to a location to download the Win32DiskImager no longer has a place to download the tool). I then set up my SD card which luckily took about 5 minutes. Now when I boot up my Raspberry Pi I get a solid red light and a yellow/green light that blinks on and off from time to time.......but still no picture no matter what cable I use. Once again I would appreciate any help.

[ewiggin]

Well, now I am getting video when using the composite cable, but still nothing when using HDMI. Is there something I will need to configure on the Raspberry Pi to get HDMI to work?

[FTrevorGowen]

Well, now I am getting video when using the composite cable, but still nothing when using HDMI. Is there something I will need to configure on the Raspberry Pi to get HDMI to work?

Some HDMI cables/devices may not provide all the signals "required" and the Pi has to be "told" not to expect them - see in the wiki at http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting# ... put_at_all
Trev.

[dandiggler]

did you manage to fix this? Ive got the same issue? Installed Raspbmc and when i plug everything in i dont get any picture at all infact my tv doesnt recognized the hdmi is on?

Oh and by the way Hello all

[dandiggler]

I fixed it yay! All I didn't do was turn the HDMI channel on first before turning it on (probably a school boy error lol)

[rurwin]

I was about to post that.

Very early in the boot, the RaspPi detects a connected HDMI TV. If it doesn't find one it switches to Composite video output.

[dandiggler]

Thanks for that do you know if there is a way to stop this?

[drgeoff]

Thanks for that do you know if there is a way to stop this?

You can stop it switching to composite video by using the 'hdmi_force_hotplug=1' line in config.txt.