I only got my pi4 4gb the other day. I had the hdmi in the wrong port the one farthest from the power cable. I changed the hdmi slot while power was on and now neither port will work. My tv shows nothing on either port. Have i blown something like an idiot?

That shouldn’t normally hurt anything, as far as I know. I’ve done it numerous times with no ill effects. I have to ask the obvious though. Did you power down / reboot the Pi after that happened with the HDMI in Port 0? I have one monitor that for what ever reason won’t see my Pi 4B if I plug the …

I got it working with a new SD card. I think the previous one was a dud :)

Switching hdmi ports killed my hdmi?

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alphanumeric April 26, 2020, 10:12am 4

I’ve had one SD Card fail on me and that can really throw you for a loop it it just sort of fails and gets corrupted. Anyway, good to hear you have it working. =)

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Switching hdmi ports killed my hdmi?

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