Picade will not run retropi

[aisnake008]

Hi,

I have borrowed an SD card with Retropie installed to tryout on my new Picade however when booting the Picade screen goes blue and then turns off.

However if I connect the HDMI to a normal TV it boots up fine and I can control everything via the Picade to add to the issue if I then unplugging the HDMI from the TV and plugging into the Picade screen it works......help

Thanks - Andy

[Redstoner]

Try to take out the SD card and plug it into your computer, and open up the config.txt in a text editor.
Change hdmi_force_hotplug to 1, this wil output video signal to the HDMI port even when nothing is connected.
The bluescreen is most likely the warning that no video source is connected

[BuZz]

Also depending on the screen, you might need to force an HDMI mode as well - I do on mine (because it defaults to 1280x720 otherwise, even though the screens native resolution is 1024x768)

[aisnake008]

Thanks Redstoner that was it and I should have know that as I set it up on another SD card but without any roms hence borrowing one to see if it works.

[edmaul69]

@aisnake008 in the /boot/config.txt you can make adjustments to hdmi including boosting the signal

[Redstoner]

@aisnake008 your welcome!