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My 7 inch HDMI touch ( HDMI display -B, 800 x 480) was perfectly working with pi 3 running Rasbian, but today it is showing very strange behavior. Screen flickers, and now it looks display would not show up, instead only white line patterns.

What has gone wrong here ? What are the correct steps for troubleshooting a 7 inch touch display that is working with a pi?

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enter image description here The issue that I am facing can be seen in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzl1YF_cdfo

Update

I plugged in wire again,moved pi a bit here and there, and I see the correct display again:

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Does that mean it has some kind of loose/broken connectors?

Update 2

It remain good only for about 20 minutes. It again started behaving same way.

Update 3 I noticed that the keyboard is also misbehaving. It freezes, and then types lot of characters on the terminal. Could it be that the OS is corrupted ? Or the Pi is faulty which I am powering through usb of my laptop?

Update 4 I noticed another strange behavior. When I drag a window and move it fast using mouse, the flickering starts. When I stop this movement, flickering stop. A continuous movement like this resulted in the same white ( salt pepper like ) like display, which is not recovering.

Update 5 I installed new pi-3, and I can see same behavior withing 5 minutes as in update 4 above. also, I noticed pi restarted automatically.

update 6

I changed power capable and hdmi cable. It has been 30 minute and the display is fine as of now. I also notice an stable RED LED, and an irregular GREEN LED. The RED LED was not glowing using earlier cable.

What are the correct steps for troubleshooting a 7 inch touch display that is working with a pi?

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  • I know this isn't an answer but i can't comment yet (really should be the other way round) but what touch screen are you using? Can you connect to a normal monitor?
    – Tasty213
    Commented Mar 26, 2018 at 13:07
  • Since the monitor starts misbehaving after approx. 20 minutes it leads me to believe that there are some components missing cooling/getting warm inside. Have a look at the different coolers, are they all in place, or are some of the loose/lost?
    – jaolstad
    Commented Mar 26, 2018 at 13:16
  • i an not using cooler
    – gpuguy
    Commented Mar 26, 2018 at 13:27
  • thanks for your answer. i will test with other monitor and update.
    – gpuguy
    Commented Mar 26, 2018 at 13:33
  • No, but there might be passive cooling devices on the different parts of your Pi or the touch-screen that is failing. E.g. heatsinks or similiar, which is lost or not attached correctly. This again will lead to components not getting cooled properly, which may result in overheating and strange behaviour - like the ones you are experiencing.
    – jaolstad
    Commented Mar 27, 2018 at 8:17

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Or the Pi is faulty which I am powering through usb of my laptop?

I bet my hat on the root cause being not enough power provided. The Pi 3 itself may need up to 700mA occasionally, and the HDMI screen may consume another 500mA or so. This can easily exceed the current capability of a standard USB port, which results in low-voltage conditions and the screen controller hangs up as a result.

Get a real power supply for your setup. You may get away with better cables for now, but the moment you add another load (USB device, intensive computation or networking activity, Bluetooth, 3D graphics, whatever) the problem will likely appear again.

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