Video problem, can anyone help me?

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Video problem, can anyone help me?

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Hi everybody,

can anyone help me understanding what is the problem of my MISTer?

I attached two videos. I'm using HDMI and the default background.

When it happens, normal reboot doesn't solve the problem, cold reboot does.
Thanks.


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cold reset you mister please
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breiztiger wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:19 am cold reset you mister please
Yes it does solve the problem but then it happens again randomly.

Is it an hardware problem?
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yes it happens randomly to all i think
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breiztiger wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:34 am yes it happens randomly to all i think
Can you please elaborate a bit more? Is it an hardware problem?

Monitor? SDRAM? HDMI port? MISTer itself?
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mister is not make to change core "at the fly"
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You are telling me that this happens frequently when someone change the core on the fly without doing a cold reset bewteen?
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sorgelig talk about that ... you can search if you want to learn more about
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Yes, it can happens, no problem, it's rare but it happens
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Re: Video problem, can anyone help me?

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sometimes a reset doesn't clear the memory completely, it seems related to a hardware bug in the DE10-Nano.
just do a full reboot and you will be fine.
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Thank you, I was worried about an hardware problem.
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I have multiple MiSTers and it happens to all of them. Like suggested above a power cycle or hitting the reset button clears it up.
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It's HW glitch in FPGA. Currently there are no other solutions except reset or power cycle. Hybrid FPGA is not designed to reload the cores on the fly originally.
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Thank you to everyone.
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