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Raspberry pi won't display

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i am using a vga monitor and i have my raspberry pi displaying through the hdmi using an HDMI CONVERTER and a VGA lead.

to get this working i had to uncomment the hdmi_1 or something . however i recently install the latest version on raspbain and it

booted with out a problem. however when i went to use it this morning i found that the monitor would not display anything. The ACT

light was flashing green and a green light on the monitor came on to show there was an imput but nothing but a black screen.

 

any ideas?????

 

Thanks for any help

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    Jacob Nichols Cook wrote:

     

    i tried running my pi through my hdmi tv and it works fine so i am guessing something wrong with the hdmi to vga converter... any ideas?

    I'd make sure the HDMI-to-VGA converter is getting power.  You didn't say whether it has an external power supply or draws +5V from RasPi.  If RasPi is supplying power for the converter, check that 5V is getting through D1 OK.  This assumes you have a RasPi Model A or B, and not a B+ which uses an IC for HDMI 5V.

     

    This just occurred to me: one way a working RasPi starts to fail is if polyfuse F3 (on Models A and B, F1 on B+) misbehaves and increases in resistance.  This can causes any of the symptoms you get with an iffy power supply.  So I'd recommend checking for power supply problems: see the RasPi Troubleshooting Wiki: http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Troubleshooting_power_problems

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