# GFX Hat not displaying any text

**URL:** <https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/gfx-hat-not-displaying-any-text/10858>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/gfx-hat-not-displaying-any-text/10858 "2019-07-04T18:04:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![zemariamm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/zemariamm/32/5585_2.png) [@zemariamm](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/zemariamm)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/gfx-hat-not-displaying-any-text/10858/1 "2019-07-04T18:04:56Z")

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Hello everyone,

I just bought a raspberry PI 3 B+ and installed Raspbian, I purchased a GFX hat and connected it to my raspberry pi (also using a pibow coupe), I tried to run the examples (and they all run without throwing any errors) but no text is ever displayed. Is this a hardware problem or a software issue? Please advise

Best,

Ze

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**Author:** ![zemariamm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/zemariamm/32/5585_2.png) [@zemariamm](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/zemariamm)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/gfx-hat-not-displaying-any-text/10858/2 "2019-07-05T10:02:07Z")

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Never mind! I got it to work, it wasn’t placed in raspberry pi properly