First time poster in need of help: Pi3 not booting
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@jbryan1984 Besides trying either another PI or another card, take a look at https://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Red_power_LED_is_blinking. It explains the LED color relation to various boot problems, including if your SD card is read or not by the PI.
I assume you inserted the SD card correctly, so it's not one of those 'is the monitor pluged in ?' moments. -
ok next I am going to try the fat32 format but instead of burning the retropie image, I will try the Rasbian lite image you suggested. If that don't work then I will try your next suggestion. Yes, the sd card is inserted face down. I even went threw some youtube videos to ensure they inserted it the same way. it doesn't go in the other way anyway. I am using my TV as the monitor. I have switched HDMI ports but the others plugged into my xbox, cable and roku all work fine.
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did you delete the partitions and and FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT" set to "ON in sd formater? You would get some kind of error if the sd failed to write
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@grant2258 I did not. But where are those options at in formatter? I open it and the only things you can do are select card, refresh, click quick or overwrite and then finally format at the bottom.
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then on guiformat, all you can do is pick the drive, the allocation unit size (which i left on the default 32768) and click start. Those are the only 3 options on there. Where is format size adjustment at?
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format size adjustment is on sd formatter :)
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Also I read somewhere else that sometimes you have to install NOOBS yourself? Is that true?
Where is it at on formatter? All I can do is select my card, click quick or overwrite format, refresh and format at the bottom
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they must have removed the option from the latest sdformat its on mine. Just use the minitools on it and delete all the partitions and make one big fat32 then use the guiformat
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what do you mean mini tools? i don't have an option for that either. Nothing about fat32 shows up in formatter, only on guiformat. I'm sure this is the problem but I cannot access anything like that on sd card formatter.
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Also I went ahead and uninstalled formatter and made sure I had the latest one. Exact same version though.
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I see where your getting confused. Let me try explain first we need to remove the partitions and make one big one the option " FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT" set to "ON", in sdformat that that isint there is what does this. It then make the card on partition in the wrong format. Then we format it with guiformat.exe. Since sd magic isint working for that you will need to use minitools at the bottom of that page
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@jbryan1984 said in First time poster in need of help: Pi3 not booting:
Also I read somewhere else that sometimes you have to install NOOBS yourself? Is that true?
No, that's not necessary.
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ok so i decided to take it completely out of the case, and it installed. It is booting now. I am not sure what the problem was? Perhaps the case was preventing the sd card from going in all the way? So I am just going to go ahead ans set up and then put it in the case. Something obviously involving the case was preventing it. I thank you both for all your help.
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If I want to get rid of the Linux partition on my sd card, I always use my Sony camera to format the card. (It can be quite tricky in Windows because windows can't see the partition.)
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@jbryan1984 Strange issue,but you figured it out - now you can have fun playing :).
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glad you got it working nice result
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just for future reference to anyone going to do this if they read it when using mini tool be sure to pick your sd card disk and not something else select it delete the partitions. Then make a new fat32 partition with all the space. It does format fat 32 cant verify that it works right the so use the gui formatter to be sure
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I still don't understand that part but at least I got it to power on. I hope I won't have any more issues after this.
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let me try help you out here when you build a house its one big space you then partition it to make rooms in the space.
A hard drive does something similar. It allocates it space you tell it what format it is then it allocates the space. It treats that space with a hard drive letter.
now when you write a retropie image and boot it you no longer have one big partition so you need to delete the partitions and make the sdcard one big drive like it should be with the fat32 format using minitool. I know its not the best explanation its the best i can do though
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Wow guys. You wanna know what the problem was the entire time? The NEPSI classic NES box! Not sure if you are familiar but it comes with plug ins that you like plug in to your usb ports on the pi, this makes it so you can turn it on and off like the original NES. So, when my pi is plugged into the NEPSI plugs ins, it WILL NOT boot! But not hooked up, it boots just fine and goes into ES. I have plugged it in and unplugged it 3 times just to be sure. That is crazy.
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