maybe, but maybe not. can't tell from lack of details. are you using hdmi? if so, make sure you turn your monitor on before turning on your pi. If you do it the other way, sometimes your pi doesn't get the message to switch to video.

when I get it booted I click nes and tyr a rom and I get ash 1: syntax error ;(; unexpectedormation: device not found

but what would cause the screen not to come on sometimes

When you say the 'screen doesn't come on', do you mean you dont see anything (ie raspberry pi boot sequence). Or do you mean that you see the raspberry pi boot sequence but when you are entering pimame you get a black screen? or do you mean that you leave your pi on all night and when you come back to it, you don't see anything on your screen?

To get mine to boot i had uncommented the following in the config file:

hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_group=1

maybe it willwork for you;-)

I put my SD card into my laptop, here you can view the config file and edit it in notepad. You just have to remove the # before the hdmi_force_hotplug=1 etc..

No worries ;-)

[SOLVED] moderators have to switch it to the solved category.