TV Trouble

[PLAYmoreUK]

Hi Guys,

Just received my rasberry pi and formatted the memory card using RPi-sd card builder and used the 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img, i cannot get anything to appear on my TV screen, its connected via the supplied HMDI cable but nothing is coming through, anyone got any suggestions?....apologies if this has been posted loads of times...in terms of lights on the pi i have two red LEDs, four green and two orange on....is that good???

Thanks for your help guys

[FTrevorGowen]

LED's appear to be fine - the Pi's probably not detecting your HDMI TV and reverting to low res A/V (yellow RCA socket) by default. Try putting your TV into HDMI mode before booting up the Pi. Other possible issues/solutions can be found on the wiki at http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting# ... put_at_all .
Trev.

[sdjf]

What model of Pi? What brand of SD card? The Pi does not come from the foundation with a cable, so if you bought a hardware package, which one did you get from where?

And, as far as I know, the Model B has only 4 lights, you list what sounds like 8 lights. How many lights are there on your Pi? And are you saying they are all on, all at the same time, nonstop?

[rpdom]

Hi Guys,

Just received my rasberry pi and formatted the memory card using RPi-sd card builder and used the 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img, i cannot get anything to appear on my TV screen, its connected via the supplied HMDI cable but nothing is coming through, anyone got any suggestions?....apologies if this has been posted loads of times...in terms of lights on the pi i have two red LEDs, four green and two orange on....is that good???

Thanks for your help guys

How many???
The Pi only has 5 LEDs total:
ACT Green. Flashes when SD card is in use and also blinks in a steady pattern if boot fails at various stages
PWR Red. On whenever power is connected.
FDX Yellow/Orange (I think, haven't got one to hand to check). Network connected in full duplex mode.
LNK Green (I think). Network link is established.
100 (10M on early boards). Yellow/Orange (?) Network is running at full 100Mb/s

The main thing is to check what the Green ACT light is doing. Does it blink a lot for a while, flash briefly once, flash in a pattern or just light dimly?

[PLAYmoreUK]

The model is Model B Rev 2 boards with 512mb RAM, i bought it from a seller on ebay and it came bundled with the HDMI cable etc

SD Card is Transcend SD HC 8GB card...

[PLAYmoreUK]

Changed to a different tv with hdmi and seems to be working, however now when it asks for username and password i enter pi as user but doesnt let me type in password, cursor doesnt move or show that im typing, is that normal?...so i cant enter the password raspberry...help!

[rpdom]

Yes, it is normal that you can't see what you are typing for the password. Just type blind and press enter

It's a security feature.