Still cannot get the Raspberry pi to work after several frustrating tries.
The memory card was bought from a pi specific source. Reloaded it twice. Specifically initialized the card.
NTSC Video monitor flashes a time or two. Shows Nikon camera video just fine.
Waiting a long time on boot makes no difference.
Memory card shows the full 1.8 gigs uncompressed size.
2 gig card does not have its class posted on label.Windows 8 makes running the checksum check difficult.
Removing the wireless mouse and keyboard before boot makes no difference.
Power supply is for a Motorola cell phone micro USB and seems to look and behave reasonably. Actual current unknown. Red LED lights quite bright.
Next, the power voltage will be checked and an oscilloscope used to see what if anything is on the video output. And a class 10 full 4 gig card will be tried. Also the first few hundred K of the memory card will be separately read for reasonableness.
The pi itself came from Allied Radio new and is not particularly suspect.
Help!