Raspberry Pi Zero not displaying anything

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Raspberry Pi Zero not displaying anything

Post by xSP » Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:07 pm

So I ordered a new BW screen from Amazon and tested it to make sure it worked before I took it apart. Now when I go to hook up the Raspberry Pi to it nothing happens. Im assuming that my wiring is done wrong but I can't see anything that is wrong.
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I've re-formatted the SD-card and put a new copy of Retropie on it and put NOOBS on another SD-card and nothing happened. The screen is running off of a 12v 1a power cord and the Raspberry Pi is running off of a 5v micro usb cord.

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Re: Raspberry Pi Zero not displaying anything

Post by tinkerBOY » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:21 am

What about you connect the pi to an HDMI display first? Do you get a led light when you power on the pi?
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Re: Raspberry Pi Zero not displaying anything

Post by xSP » Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:55 am

zeroboy wrote:
Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:21 am
What about you connect the pi to an HDMI display first? Do you get a led light when you power on the pi?
Unfortunately I don't have a mini hdmi to hdmi adapter, so I can't test that out. The green led light turns on and kinda flickers and thats about it.

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Re: Raspberry Pi Zero not displaying anything

Post by Maury » Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:38 am

I think you have model 8
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Re: Raspberry Pi Zero not displaying anything

Post by Maury » Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:39 am

Let me know how it goes.

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