PCE white displaying either white or teal blue screen without cart

[gtsamour]

My PCE white displaying either white (most of the times) or teal blue screen without a cart inserted.

When a cart, everdrive or arcade card is inserted everything seems to be working ok.

I'm a bit worried about the teal blue screen that I get sometimes without a cart inserted. Does it mean something is wrong with my console?

[crazydean]

If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!

[NecroPhile]

WTF?  It's almost June 1st.  You're two months late.

[DragonmasterDan]

Is this a PC Engine Duo R or something where you're expecting the system card screen to show up or a regular white PCE with no built in menu?

[gtsamour]

If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!

LOL!!! that's a good one ;)

[HuMan]

It means nothing. The PC Engine just displays whatever code is in the video RAM as a color. It entirely depends on the make and model of the SRAM used as video RAM. The exact same thing happens with the NES and Famicom.

[gtsamour]

Is this a PC Engine Duo R or something where you're expecting the system card screen to show up or a regular white PCE with no built in menu?

Its a white regular PCE, not expecting anything to show up without a card but a white screen. Its just that sometimes I get a light blue screen and I was wondering if thats an error color code of some kind. The console seems to be working fine though, everdrive, cds all ok.

Maybe I'm flipping the switch too fast, I noticed that if i turn it on, then back off and on again fast, a color screen shows up (light blue or green)...

It means nothing. The PC Engine just displays whatever code is in the video RAM as a color. It entirely depends on the make and model of the SRAM used as video RAM. The exact same thing happens with the NES and Famicom.

Thank you for the info, I appreciate it ;)

I got worried because I read somewhere that solid color screens are error codes.

So nothing to worry about right?

[SignOfZeta]

Dude. No. It's fine. They all do this.