Help me out

tzdig

Hello I am new to this I was able to hook everything up I even put the Retro pie on to my sad card but when I plugged it in to my Raspberry pi all I get is this text boot screen nothing else it’s been on this screen for almost 2 hours can you help

sleve_mcdichael

@tzdig that sounds a lot like what happens if you use the wrong micro-HDMI port. Make sure you're using the left-most one, closest to the USB-C power port. If that doesn't fix it, please provide some more info about your system as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

tzdig

@sleve_mcdichael i will try that out and i have a raspberry pi 4

tzdig

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tzdig

@sleve_mcdichael still no

sleve_mcdichael

@tzdig I can't read anything on that screen. It might be a kernel panic. How did you install RetroPie? What image did you use?

tzdig

@sleve_mcdichael raspberry pi imager

tzdig

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sleve_mcdichael

@tzdig yeah that looks like a kernel panic. Badly-written image or a bad SD card. Did you use https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases/download/4.7.1/retropie-buster-4.7.1-rpi4_400.img.gz from https://retropie.org.uk/download/?

tzdig

@sleve_mcdichael yes i did

sleve_mcdichael

@tzdig do you have another SD card you could try?

tzdig

@sleve_mcdichael no just the one it came with but i just tried to but the desktop and it came up on the same sd card

tzdig

@sleve_mcdichael the raspberry pi desktop

tzdig

@sleve_mcdichael i put it back on to the retro pie and nothing changed

lostless

@tzdig might be a bad sd card. That would be your next step is to try another card. Those buggers can just suddenly go bad. Happened to me when i first tried retropie on a older sd card i had lying around and it got corrupted and was in a similar boat you are in, until i got a brand new sd card. If that doesnt work. It might be a bad pi.

tzdig

@lostless i just bot this one on amazon but just to make sheer im going to buy another one and try that thank im sheer ill be back on here to let you guys know the out take of it

sleve_mcdichael

@tzdig said in Help me out:

@sleve_mcdichael i put it back on to the retro pie and nothing changed

You put the Raspberry Pi OS (desktop) image on the card and it worked, but you put the RetroPie image back on and it still didn't?

Maybe your download got corrupted. Can you md5sum your image file? On Windows:

Right-click, "open command prompt here" in the folder where you saved the image. Type:

certutil -hashfile retropie-buster-4.7.1-rpi4_400.img.gz MD5

What's the output?

tzdig

@tzdig still the same thing

tzdig

@sleve_mcdichael Screenshot (2).png

lostless

@tzdig what @sleve_mcdichael i asking is to use windows to check the checksum of the .Img file to see if it’s not corrupt. That is another possibility. Or try redownloading the image and write that to the card.