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    RetroPie boot looping...

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      Fatman2001
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      Hi guys

      I hope someone can help. My RetroPie for some reason now is getting stuck in a constant boot loop, the furthest it gets is about 3 seconds into showing the blue RetroPie splash screen and then it goes back to the beginning again (4 raspberry's in the top left corner).

      Nothing has changed with my setup and it worked just fine yesterday, from what I understand this is possibly down to a corrupt /boot/config.txt file? If this is the case how to I resolve this? What are the default lines I need to have in the /boot/config.txt file?

      Many thanks!

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        Fatman2001
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        FYI, problem was resolved by replacing the 3rd party power supply with the official Pi 3 power supply: https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-power-supplies/products/official-raspberry-pi-universal-power-supply

        Problem has not returned since, my guess is that the 3rd party power supply had enough to power on the pi, but not enough to proceed past the RetroPie splash screen and onto Emulation Station, hence the reboot issue coming about.

        Thought I'd post this as a follow-up in case anyone else falls victim to the same issue.

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