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**Article: The Journey Through Troubleshooting a Raspberry Pi Monitor Setup**
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### 1. Introduction to the Sensor Panel
In the world of custom PC builds and streaming setups, a sensor panel adds that extra touch of coolness. This small monitor output displays real-time statistics on your system, such as FPS or temperatures. In this article, we follow along with the journey of setting up a Raspberry Pi-based sensor panel, encountering challenges, and ultimately troubleshooting to find a solution.
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### 2. The Troubleshooting Process
The adventure began when the monitor, a crucial part of the setup, failed to display any image. Initially, it powered on briefly but shut off immediately, leaving no signal to the HDMI output. This puzzling behavior led to debates about whether to remove the panel entirely or persist in resolving the issue.
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### 3. Identifying the Root Cause
After several attempts and tests with different power sources, it was suspected that the monitor's USB power supply might be inadequate. Further investigation revealed a deeper issue: the monitor's faulty hardware. The problem wasn't with the power delivery but rather a faulty component on the board.
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### 4. Disassembly and Fix Attempt
To diagnose the issue, the PC case had to be disassembled, revealing a complex web of cables and components. A 3D-printed bracket, designed for support, was found to be causing unintended pressure on the monitor's board. This pressure likely led to physical stress and eventual failure.
Attempts were made to adjust the bracket and relieve tension, but the monitor still failed to display properly. Further inspection uncovered a damaged capacitor, pointing towards a manufacturing defect or poor quality control.
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### 5. Conclusion and Next Steps
Despite efforts to fix the existing board, it became clear that replacing the faulty component was necessary. The conclusion? Invest in a reliable replacement to ensure the sensor panel functions as intended.
Moving forward, considerations include ensuring the new monitor's design aligns with the build setup, particularly regarding cable management and power delivery. This experience underscores the importance of quality components, especially when integrating specialized hardware like Raspberry Pi-based sensors.
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**Final Thoughts**
This journey through troubleshooting highlights the challenges of DIY projects but also the satisfaction of overcoming them. While the current chapter ends with a faulty board, the next steps promise a functional sensor panel, enhancing both the build's aesthetics and functionality. Stay tuned for updates on how this setup evolves!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso you guys have probably seen my personal build sitting in the background of the videos ever since we were done because of the fact that this monitor didn't want to fire on so if you guys remember that um today i think i've got it working and figured out and take you guys kind of for a ride of troubleshooting this raspberry pi monitor and let's see if we can actually get an image on there so we can set up our sensor panel get your next gaming pc from build redux compare pricing to buying the parts yourself and stop overpaying pick your starting budget see your estimated gaming performance and then see your pc based on your choices plus redux offers a growing support hub to answer all your questions and it's backed by a two-year part-to-end labor warranty so you're covered pick your budget pick your games and get build redux so we did a tutorial quite a while ago actually i think it was last year sometime at least about creating a sensor panel and what we mean by sensor panel is it's just a small monitor output that does absolutely nothing except give you current statistics on whatever you configure it to be in your system so for instance i'm kind of routing my usb power cable here now because i have not set this back up to confirm that it's actually going to work or not work we do have a tutorial that we did regarding how to set that up so i will put a link down below to that video or maybe even a pop-out on the screen right here to show you uh how to do that so that you can see why we're doing this but the thing is like i had debated actually just removing this all together when it wasn't working and saying screw it do i need one of those but you know during my live streams and stuff on twitch dot tv slash chase two cents every monday and wednesday 7 p.m pacific um i've gotten so used to when people ask me what's your fps just going oh it's this you know i have multiple monitors for my stream setup and i could literally just do the display on a regular monitor but it's just so cool to have it sitting in your system here i know there's a lot of third-party apps and stuff that will do this already natively we use ada64 and msi afterburner to get it all working but once you become used to it you kind of can't not have it a lot of people even choose to put the screen on their desk like maybe right in front of their keyboard or something i just think it looks neat having it in the system and i liked this kind of a three-tiered system of motherboard graphics card screen and the way that it looked so let me finish getting my cables plugged back in right here and then we'll test and see if it's going to actually turn on in fact here's a small recap of what it was doing where we would i would turn on the system it would see power from usb because this is five volt usp usp usb powered and um it would turn on for a second and then just immediately turn off whether it had anything you know signal wise going to the hdmi it would just turn itself off and we could not for the life of us figure out why took it off the system had nick go and test it with a motherboard or a laptop worked fine got it back over here wouldn't work again then it decided i didn't want to work anymore with the laptop and we never got an image back since what we couldn't even get it to do is even show the whole like and i gotta make these cables look nicer over time but that's fine we couldn't even get it to do the no display thing so i what i'm going to do right now is i'm just going to turn the system on with that monitor because now with the monitor hooked up it should essentially show me bios and stuff look it powered on see now it's working so let me tell you what i did and then i don't know maybe this will help i might even disassemble the whole thing just i can show you even though it's a lot of work to disassemble it so the screen the light on the back turned red and what this will give me an opportunity to do too is kind of cover up that led because i don't want that bright light bouncing off of there let me just see if it'll actually post right now with the system or the system should post theoretically also too the post takes forever on 12th gen if it's lost power there we go see it turned green we should get an image here look at that an itty bitty little bios in itty bitty bios sick land rig bro rocket league on that i just turn itself off no i think windows that was we had an image for a second there and it turned itself off what a weird problem right so if i unplug this and plug it back in turns on green for a second and then just turns itself off we're back to that problem okay this is actually good news because i think i know what the problem is and i want and i didn't i actually did not alleviate the problem what essentially happened here is i went i think i know the problem is guys look we got an image thing and then i put it all back together the way it was and it was working and i go that's not good because then you're not entirely sure if that's the problem i think i know what the problem is i think has everything to do with 3d printed back support i knew something was happening with the panel itself and not a power delivery because one of the things phil thought was like well maybe our usb is not actually giving us 5 volt and that's why it's shutting off i used the supplied brick and that was not giving it was doing the exact same behavior so i need to take the screen out and the funny thing about that is it looks easy but to get the piece out that i need it's actually attached to this bottom plate and guess what's also attached to that bottom plate my hard tube graphics card so this is where someone might go you know i got some nuts installed in there so this is a it was a seven millimeter with an extension you go okay cool i'm gonna loosen up the nuts except for the fact that the holes were 3d printed perfectly so that the threads like it threaded itself in there so that doesn't exactly get it loose so what i got to do now this extra step and you know to be honest i don't want to like strip those threads out so the screw spins because i can actually tighten it up because it's thread it's you know it's threading against itself so i can take this out but you can see now there's a power supply in the way so in true j fashion and keeping things as complicated to work on as possible now i have to loosen up the graphics card or the graphics card no the power supply and then swing it out of the way unfortunately there's just enough slack ah you know like i said and then because this is here and there's no room for any sort of a screw i have to do this part by hand i mean i'd much rather do this and have to take the graphics card out because that means draining the loop so if my theory is correct on what is causing this problem by removing this back piece right here you see i only have three screws in there this is a 3d printed stand that nick made just you can use using tinkercad nothing too crazy i just came up with a little post system that that's too big give a little post system that you know just holds it that mates up with these screws right here these are these are additional mounting locations here for the front uh riser cable bracket that comes with the spectre 3 case so there's a couple positions you could put that in we chose to push it all the way back so i had room for the screen there to use those holes but you'll notice there's three screws in here because they're not perfect like nick's for this is the first like this is technically the prototype we didn't even like adjust it at all the holes don't perfectly line up i said i would elongate or open up the hole slightly so they fit i just choose or chose to bend the bracket and squeeze it together real tight and screw these screws in well upon looking at this more closely what i noticed by looking down in there actually is by it squeezing on those brackets real tight it was actually slightly bowing the board so it makes me believe something was making contact under there by squeezing that so by disassembling this there green see that so by relieving all that tension and letting the board flatten itself back out and no longer make contact in there it now works and it turned red because there's no image there so i want to now theoretically test it like this without anything in there and then see if our display will continue to show and not turn itself off because i mean there's no reason it should turn itself off or went to sleep or anything like that because it sees a signal right there there's the signal it's going to wait for me to plug in a keyboard which i'm not going to actually do yet i just want to get to the desktop now and see if it will continue to give me a display and not turn itself off the nice thing too about having this in here like this hmm i wish there was someplace local that sold these screens so we have a theory now that maybe when it's unplugged and i'm fiddling with it that's allowing whatever's happening inside to reset it's almost acting like an overheat kind of a thing or it's time wise i mean if it was a short nothing's moving if it's working therefore it should not short it also can mean there's a bad component on the board that over time it then fails with just a short amount of energy going through it but everything i can feel on here component wise it's cold to the touch so it's not like i could put one of my little heatsink deals on there that i've got it's just probably current causing something in there to overheat so i found that by now it's not doing it by squee i was squeezing it in a certain area and then it was turning itself back on okay don't need a speaker but what's funny about this now is it makes me want to maybe like see if i can undo the ribbon cable and separate the two panels and because i can see through watch my wiggles and go off this is actually the trolliest piece of tech right now like i just squeezed it back to bro like not broken i turned it off and the question is will it turn back on now without any input yeah obviously because i don't have a light yeah it's so all i do is turn off the system and now it's not turning back on all the power delivery is clearly over here oh yeah right when you push the power delivery i mean this can all be solved by just replacing the panel it's just i didn't want to spend you know 40 bucks i didn't have to raspberry pi zero as in zero functionality all right well i want to see now if i can separate these two panels and see what's going on on the back side i think it's something on the back side honestly okay we've got this which i believe this is some sort of a grounding pad this is all bubbly and broken looking it's probably a little mini cap and what's happening is that cap is just completely like working right so it can't so every bit of that cleaned off with zero damage i don't think that was it because it still looks coated like it doesn't look like it it penetrated through in any way but then again it doesn't need to be much right to cause a problem let's get the metal stuff out of the way here so it's clearly when it's got and it's trying to output yeah it's off all right this is this is definitely time to call this one because i gave it the old college try and uh this is clearly a bad component somewhere on this board so it's more than likely just a faulty board from the start inside i've had this board for like two years never used still just in the box so i'm going to order another one i thought i thought i had this figured out and fixed but it this is like been the most possessed and like trolly attempt at fixing something that has ever happened like it was just like okay you fixed me no you didn't yes you did no you didn't squeeze me yeah there i like it right there squeeze there squeeze harder and then it was like no so anyway the sad part is this little screen works it's no good without like why can't it just be hdmi right there because i mean i don't technically need half of what's on this board because this is intended to also have these buttons or are they right here work with raspberry pi directly so there's a lot of functionality on this board with the touchscreen stuff that i don't need but what i need to do when i replace it i need to make sure that the outputs for like the hdmi or the input input for hdmi and then the power and all that are on the side and not the top or the bottom because of the way that this is gonna go so anyway there we go i tried to guys along for the ride you know when things don't go as according to plan i like to show those too i have no doubt for the price that these boards are that they're not going to be exactly the highest quality or most qa qc thing in the world if they if they can sell them for 40 bucks they're making them for like eight maybe and like seven of that is the panel and and how good can the robots be for making things seven dollars at a time all right guys thanks for watching eventually i'll get this system home every time i live stream like are you on your new system like no my screen still doesn't work all right guys we'll see you in the next one maybe it'll be more entertaining with actual results let's clean it while mad dust is gathering it hasn't been usedso you guys have probably seen my personal build sitting in the background of the videos ever since we were done because of the fact that this monitor didn't want to fire on so if you guys remember that um today i think i've got it working and figured out and take you guys kind of for a ride of troubleshooting this raspberry pi monitor and let's see if we can actually get an image on there so we can set up our sensor panel get your next gaming pc from build redux compare pricing to buying the parts yourself and stop overpaying pick your starting budget see your estimated gaming performance and then see your pc based on your choices plus redux offers a growing support hub to answer all your questions and it's backed by a two-year part-to-end labor warranty so you're covered pick your budget pick your games and get build redux so we did a tutorial quite a while ago actually i think it was last year sometime at least about creating a sensor panel and what we mean by sensor panel is it's just a small monitor output that does absolutely nothing except give you current statistics on whatever you configure it to be in your system so for instance i'm kind of routing my usb power cable here now because i have not set this back up to confirm that it's actually going to work or not work we do have a tutorial that we did regarding how to set that up so i will put a link down below to that video or maybe even a pop-out on the screen right here to show you uh how to do that so that you can see why we're doing this but the thing is like i had debated actually just removing this all together when it wasn't working and saying screw it do i need one of those but you know during my live streams and stuff on twitch dot tv slash chase two cents every monday and wednesday 7 p.m pacific um i've gotten so used to when people ask me what's your fps just going oh it's this you know i have multiple monitors for my stream setup and i could literally just do the display on a regular monitor but it's just so cool to have it sitting in your system here i know there's a lot of third-party apps and stuff that will do this already natively we use ada64 and msi afterburner to get it all working but once you become used to it you kind of can't not have it a lot of people even choose to put the screen on their desk like maybe right in front of their keyboard or something i just think it looks neat having it in the system and i liked this kind of a three-tiered system of motherboard graphics card screen and the way that it looked so let me finish getting my cables plugged back in right here and then we'll test and see if it's going to actually turn on in fact here's a small recap of what it was doing where we would i would turn on the system it would see power from usb because this is five volt usp usp usb powered and um it would turn on for a second and then just immediately turn off whether it had anything you know signal wise going to the hdmi it would just turn itself off and we could not for the life of us figure out why took it off the system had nick go and test it with a motherboard or a laptop worked fine got it back over here wouldn't work again then it decided i didn't want to work anymore with the laptop and we never got an image back since what we couldn't even get it to do is even show the whole like and i gotta make these cables look nicer over time but that's fine we couldn't even get it to do the no display thing so i what i'm going to do right now is i'm just going to turn the system on with that monitor because now with the monitor hooked up it should essentially show me bios and stuff look it powered on see now it's working so let me tell you what i did and then i don't know maybe this will help i might even disassemble the whole thing just i can show you even though it's a lot of work to disassemble it so the screen the light on the back turned red and what this will give me an opportunity to do too is kind of cover up that led because i don't want that bright light bouncing off of there let me just see if it'll actually post right now with the system or the system should post theoretically also too the post takes forever on 12th gen if it's lost power there we go see it turned green we should get an image here look at that an itty bitty little bios in itty bitty bios sick land rig bro rocket league on that i just turn itself off no i think windows that was we had an image for a second there and it turned itself off what a weird problem right so if i unplug this and plug it back in turns on green for a second and then just turns itself off we're back to that problem okay this is actually good news because i think i know what the problem is and i want and i didn't i actually did not alleviate the problem what essentially happened here is i went i think i know the problem is guys look we got an image thing and then i put it all back together the way it was and it was working and i go that's not good because then you're not entirely sure if that's the problem i think i know what the problem is i think has everything to do with 3d printed back support i knew something was happening with the panel itself and not a power delivery because one of the things phil thought was like well maybe our usb is not actually giving us 5 volt and that's why it's shutting off i used the supplied brick and that was not giving it was doing the exact same behavior so i need to take the screen out and the funny thing about that is it looks easy but to get the piece out that i need it's actually attached to this bottom plate and guess what's also attached to that bottom plate my hard tube graphics card so this is where someone might go you know i got some nuts installed in there so this is a it was a seven millimeter with an extension you go okay cool i'm gonna loosen up the nuts except for the fact that the holes were 3d printed perfectly so that the threads like it threaded itself in there so that doesn't exactly get it loose so what i got to do now this extra step and you know to be honest i don't want to like strip those threads out so the screw spins because i can actually tighten it up because it's thread it's you know it's threading against itself so i can take this out but you can see now there's a power supply in the way so in true j fashion and keeping things as complicated to work on as possible now i have to loosen up the graphics card or the graphics card no the power supply and then swing it out of the way unfortunately there's just enough slack ah you know like i said and then because this is here and there's no room for any sort of a screw i have to do this part by hand i mean i'd much rather do this and have to take the graphics card out because that means draining the loop so if my theory is correct on what is causing this problem by removing this back piece right here you see i only have three screws in there this is a 3d printed stand that nick made just you can use using tinkercad nothing too crazy i just came up with a little post system that that's too big give a little post system that you know just holds it that mates up with these screws right here these are these are additional mounting locations here for the front uh riser cable bracket that comes with the spectre 3 case so there's a couple positions you could put that in we chose to push it all the way back so i had room for the screen there to use those holes but you'll notice there's three screws in here because they're not perfect like nick's for this is the first like this is technically the prototype we didn't even like adjust it at all the holes don't perfectly line up i said i would elongate or open up the hole slightly so they fit i just choose or chose to bend the bracket and squeeze it together real tight and screw these screws in well upon looking at this more closely what i noticed by looking down in there actually is by it squeezing on those brackets real tight it was actually slightly bowing the board so it makes me believe something was making contact under there by squeezing that so by disassembling this there green see that so by relieving all that tension and letting the board flatten itself back out and no longer make contact in there it now works and it turned red because there's no image there so i want to now theoretically test it like this without anything in there and then see if our display will continue to show and not turn itself off because i mean there's no reason it should turn itself off or went to sleep or anything like that because it sees a signal right there there's the signal it's going to wait for me to plug in a keyboard which i'm not going to actually do yet i just want to get to the desktop now and see if it will continue to give me a display and not turn itself off the nice thing too about having this in here like this hmm i wish there was someplace local that sold these screens so we have a theory now that maybe when it's unplugged and i'm fiddling with it that's allowing whatever's happening inside to reset it's almost acting like an overheat kind of a thing or it's time wise i mean if it was a short nothing's moving if it's working therefore it should not short it also can mean there's a bad component on the board that over time it then fails with just a short amount of energy going through it but everything i can feel on here component wise it's cold to the touch so it's not like i could put one of my little heatsink deals on there that i've got it's just probably current causing something in there to overheat so i found that by now it's not doing it by squee i was squeezing it in a certain area and then it was turning itself back on okay don't need a speaker but what's funny about this now is it makes me want to maybe like see if i can undo the ribbon cable and separate the two panels and because i can see through watch my wiggles and go off this is actually the trolliest piece of tech right now like i just squeezed it back to bro like not broken i turned it off and the question is will it turn back on now without any input yeah obviously because i don't have a light yeah it's so all i do is turn off the system and now it's not turning back on all the power delivery is clearly over here oh yeah right when you push the power delivery i mean this can all be solved by just replacing the panel it's just i didn't want to spend you know 40 bucks i didn't have to raspberry pi zero as in zero functionality all right well i want to see now if i can separate these two panels and see what's going on on the back side i think it's something on the back side honestly okay we've got this which i believe this is some sort of a grounding pad this is all bubbly and broken looking it's probably a little mini cap and what's happening is that cap is just completely like working right so it can't so every bit of that cleaned off with zero damage i don't think that was it because it still looks coated like it doesn't look like it it penetrated through in any way but then again it doesn't need to be much right to cause a problem let's get the metal stuff out of the way here so it's clearly when it's got and it's trying to output yeah it's off all right this is this is definitely time to call this one because i gave it the old college try and uh this is clearly a bad component somewhere on this board so it's more than likely just a faulty board from the start inside i've had this board for like two years never used still just in the box so i'm going to order another one i thought i thought i had this figured out and fixed but it this is like been the most possessed and like trolly attempt at fixing something that has ever happened like it was just like okay you fixed me no you didn't yes you did no you didn't squeeze me yeah there i like it right there squeeze there squeeze harder and then it was like no so anyway the sad part is this little screen works it's no good without like why can't it just be hdmi right there because i mean i don't technically need half of what's on this board because this is intended to also have these buttons or are they right here work with raspberry pi directly so there's a lot of functionality on this board with the touchscreen stuff that i don't need but what i need to do when i replace it i need to make sure that the outputs for like the hdmi or the input input for hdmi and then the power and all that are on the side and not the top or the bottom because of the way that this is gonna go so anyway there we go i tried to guys along for the ride you know when things don't go as according to plan i like to show those too i have no doubt for the price that these boards are that they're not going to be exactly the highest quality or most qa qc thing in the world if they if they can sell them for 40 bucks they're making them for like eight maybe and like seven of that is the panel and and how good can the robots be for making things seven dollars at a time all right guys thanks for watching eventually i'll get this system home every time i live stream like are you on your new system like no my screen still doesn't work all right guys we'll see you in the next one maybe it'll be more entertaining with actual results let's clean it while mad dust is gathering it hasn't been used\n"