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I have a Raspberry Pi 2B and whenever I try to connect to my TV so I can use the Pi, nothing shows up. It is just a black screen... nothing else. I am using HDMI, and one light is green, and one is red. Am I doing anything wrong? Why won't it turn on? I have tried a lot, and I think it's the Pi that's faulty. But I don't want to swap it over. Does anyone have any tips?

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  • You may want to edit your question to mention that yo are connecting via HDMI, have tried multiple cables and thaat both the LEDs are on and not blinking. – Steve Robillard Dec 26 '15 at 06:32
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    Is the green one flashing? If not, then you have no MicroSD or the MicroSD doesn't contain the necessary boot data. – Star OS Dec 26 '15 at 08:00
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    Ditto. Solid green means it rejected the SD card; nothing will ever appear on the screen. – goldilocks Dec 26 '15 at 11:50
  • Have you even inserted a bootable SD Card? It doesn't come with an OS out of the box! – Star OS Dec 27 '15 at 09:07
  • Well, except if you ordered it with an NOOBS SD Card. I'm typing this on a Raspberry Pi 2 B, same model as yours. – Star OS Dec 27 '15 at 09:14

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To fix this, add the following text: 

hdmi_force_hotplug=1

to the /flash/config.txt file. You'll find this in your Raspberry Pi file on the formatted SD card.

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