Black Screen after running through boot sequence

Chapster5

Hi all,

Strange one I moved my RasperryPi 4 from the living room to another room and plugged it in. Started it up it shows a square with multicolour in as usual then it runs through the black screens with white writing as it does no errors from what I can see. After that the screen goes black? And then nothing

Here's my es_log file

https://pastebin.com/Wp4J77JG

Here's my boot config file

https://pastebin.com/QFDj2Ktz

It was working perfectly fine in the other room. If I have to format and start again how do I backup any save files from games?

If I remember rightly I was using retropie V4.6

Whats the first steps I should try? Thank you

mitu

You config.txt has hardcoded the video resolution. Comment the resolution lines and it should work.

#hdmi_group=2
#hdmi_mode=58

Chapster5

@mitu thank you for the response. I commented out those lines and saved (CTRL+O then CTRL+A) exited and rebooted the pi now the screen is tiny and in the top left corner of the TV but same problem still a black screen after seeing all the white writing run by?

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mitu

What is the native resolution on your TV ? If it's not properly detected, you may have to use raspi-config to force it.

Chapster5

I'm not entirely sure. It's a Sony Bravia KDL-40W2000

https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/televisions-projectors-lcd-tvs/kdl-40w2000/specifications

It's what all the other consoles of the house are connected to such as the PS4.

Seems weird

Chapster5

Any more thoughts on this? I'm still no further along :(

Clyde

@Chapster5 said in Black Screen after running through boot sequence:

I'm not entirely sure. It's a Sony Bravia KDL-40W2000

Your link says:

Display Resolution

1920 x 1080

See Show and set the current video mode about how to change video modes on the fly to find the correct one.

Chapster5

@Clyde seems non of those video modes are working even changing them on the fly nothing is displaying on the TV I'm at a loss here

Any other ideas?

Chapster5

Seems I've sussed it.

I set the Boot/config back to default

Ran rasp-config and set the resolution through that.

Phew

Clyde

@Chapster5 Thanks for sharing your solution. 👍