Jetson Nana HDMI cable - asking for password

[user22357]

I posted a question a while back.

New Jetson Nano - HDMI cable not working on Dell Monitor P2217

Hello I am trying to setup a new Jetson Nano Development Kit. Created the latest image on a new microSD card. Connected to USB power. Jetson powers up. Connected a new HDMI cable. (The cable is good, it works ok on a Dell Laptop connected to a Dell Docking station.) When I connect this to the Jetson, the monitor does not detect the HDMI cable. Tried several times, No luck. Any suggestions what I should try next? I even tried flashing an older version of the image but still no output on the …

Finally after many frustrating attempts I found the issue and am posting here. Maybe it will help someone and save them some time.

It seems the 2GB Jetson Nano Development Kit will boot up from the SD card as long as the image is the perfect fit.

4gb image will not work on the 2gb Nano but the download page is not clear.

The 2gb image did not work either. The Nvidia logo showed up but it asked for a password to login.

Turned out version 4.62 was not compatible. It seems some of the older 2gb Development kit hardware will work only with version 4.61 of the SD Card image.

[kayccc]

Thanks for your sharing. the 2GB and 4GB SW image are not compatible, we will review the webpage to see how to improve to avoid confusion.