Pi5 Green Light, no display

March 23, 2025, 15:17

oneshot1

System Details: Model: Raspberry Pi 5 Operating Systems Tried: Pi OS 32-bit, 64-bit, Alpine Linux(desired) SD Card: CanaKit 256EVO Power Supply: CanaKit 45W USB-c Pi seems to start, green light hesitates a small amount for a second before stabilizing to solid green. But no signal to monitor. I DO get a signal when starting with NO SD card. I don't have any replacement parts (i can use generic usbC cord, but dont have a monitor cord or large enough micro SD card), but I really don't think any of the parts are the issue? The SD card was the first thing i considered to be the issue, but it has 0 issues being read from/written to on my pc.

oneshot1

Update: Found a smaller SD card. Same result.

oneshot1

Update: Added hdmi_safe=1 to my config.txt No change

oneshot1

Info: Cana Fan spins for a second but stops when green light flickers. Does not start again.

oneshot1

Update: Vision! But, it only displays when started without an SD card, getting to error screen, and inserting SD card later.

uwuanims

Look up the led codes for the boards, I had that issue on startup and had to reupload my bootloader

oneshot1

Whats the process for that? I see the imager has an SD Card Boot option in the OS list, but will that wipe my os? I tried it before, and got a green display, and then when flashing my OS afterwards, the issue was back to normal.

uwuanims

Yes it will wipe your os

uwuanims

The documentation said that if there's a green screen then the bootloader uploaded successfully, what I did was took the sd card, them put the os back on it and reuploaded it to my pi

oneshot1

Update: Pi isnt working at all now. Was able to start it by putting the SD card in after getting to the "no sd" screen, but now that has stopped working.

uwuanims

Sorry, I don't look in this server often. Any update yet?