NVIDIA Jetbot Kit Jetson Nano not booting correctly

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Hi, I bought the latest jetbot kit and was working through the software setup.

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I flashed the image and then connected the monitor, keyboard and mouse to it and turned it on. All I saw was the NVIDIA logo flash once or twice on my screen and then nothing. It didn’t boot. I tried this multiple times, with the jetbot image as well as the original jetson nano developer image (the base image available for download on NVIDIAs website) but I had no luck. I think that this could be an issue with the monitor not being native HDMI (I was using a VGA-HDMI adapter). I don’t have a native HDMI monitor and being a student I really don’t have money to buy one nor possible to get hold of one with the current lockdown situation.

I tried a headless boot using putty on Windows 10 and was able to successfully login to jetbot. However, I was not able to setup autologin and wifi on the jetbot. The EDIMAX N150 WiFi-BT usb adapter was connected to the jetson but when I checked for connections through the command line I couldn’t see any wifi connections available. In fact when I checked for ```
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We’ve had other users experience this behavior as well. Is the power light still light when you plug it in?

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TS-Brandon:
We’ve had other users experience this behavior as well. Is the power light still light when you plug it in?

Yes the green power LED is stable, no issue with that.

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This is most likely being caused by the Jetson running a video mode that your HDMI to VGA adapter is not happy with.

Unfortunately, the only thing we can recommend is trying an actual HDMI monitor, or a DVI monitor with a HDMI to DVI cable.