Teken Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 Anyone on the forums rocking the latest RPI4? If so has anyone seen video issues with this specific model of board? Short Story: Video does not display on one TV but does output video fine on another?!? Long Story: Picked one of the latest RPI-4 while on ($35.00 CDN) sale. Had to purchase several 3.1 amp USB-C power cables and a micro HDMI -> Full HDMI video cables. Parts arrived and the image loaded upon power up saw absolutely nothing on the TV. Toggled all three HDMI sources and swapped each port to no avail ~ No video! After trouble shooting every piece of hardware in the chain found (initially) the shitty Samsung Micro SD card was bunk. Threw it away and installed a brand new high endurance SanDisk in its place. This resolved the system not loading and booting up but didn't resolve the no video output. After what seemed like hours went around plugging the RPI-4 into various monitors / TV's and all of them had video?!?! Question: Is there any setting or cable standard that would cause this to happen?? The same TV that doesn't have any (RPI-4 video) displays fine with any other source material?!?
larryllix Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 37 minutes ago, Teken said: Anyone on the forums rocking the latest RPI4? If so has anyone seen video issues with this specific model of board? Short Story: Video does not display on one TV but does output video fine on another?!? Long Story: Picked one of the latest RPI-4 while on ($35.00 CDN) sale. Had to purchase several 3.1 amp USB-C power cables and a micro HDMI -> Full HDMI video cables. Parts arrived and the image loaded upon power up saw absolutely nothing on the TV. Toggled all three HDMI sources and swapped each port to no avail ~ No video! After trouble shooting every piece of hardware in the chain found (initially) the shitty Samsung Micro SD card was bunk. Threw it away and installed a brand new high endurance SanDisk in its place. This resolved the system not loading and booting up but didn't resolve the no video output. After what seemed like hours went around plugging the RPI-4 into various monitors / TV's and all of them had video?!?! Question: Is there any setting or cable standard that would cause this to happen?? The same TV that doesn't have any (RPI-4 video) displays fine with any other source material?!? Earlier RPis have a video sync signal option (polarity?). I think it may have had something to do with European PAL signal styles but if not set correctly the NTSC monitors wouldn't work. I got a bad SD card from the English distributor on a RPi2 years ago.
Teken Posted January 31, 2020 Author Posted January 31, 2020 15 minutes ago, larryllix said: Earlier RPis have a video sync signal option (polarity?). I think it may have had something to do with European PAL signal styles but if not set correctly the NTSC monitors wouldn't work. I got a bad SD card from the English distributor on a RPi2 years ago. As of this writing I've checked all of the advanced / basic video settings on this TV and nothing stands out. As noted, inserting any other source material into all three HDMI ports does result in video content. That can't be said with RPI-4 that I have on hand but just updated the OS last night and will check again ~ not holding my breath! Didn't really want to have to purchase new video cables, USB-C 3.1 amp PSU, and thermal case!
larryllix Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 23 minutes ago, Teken said: As of this writing I've checked all of the advanced / basic video settings on this TV and nothing stands out. As noted, inserting any other source material into all three HDMI ports does result in video content. That can't be said with RPI-4 that I have on hand but just updated the OS last night and will check again ~ not holding my breath! Didn't really want to have to purchase new video cables, USB-C 3.1 amp PSU, and thermal case! Yeah. Soon it will be like the printers. Give you the RPi board and sell you the support parts for less than $200, not including Fedex driver gratuity.
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