Retropie freezing!! Please help!!
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Hello everyone, I'm very new to this so please bear with me. I recently got a raspberry pi zero and managed to set everything up yesterday. It runs fine if I'm playing a game or tinkering about but if I leave it idle for a few minutes my pi completely freezes and the only way to reset it is to unplug the power supply. I have updated everything using sudo apt-get update and problem persists. I thought it might be overheating but I do not have the pi inside a case so it gets plenty ventilation and this only happens when left idle. Freezes with or with or without any peripherals. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
I'm using:
Raspberry Pi Zero version 1.3
5v 2A micro usb charger
Retropie v 4.1.9
Built from pre made retropie image on this website
Conected to amazon basics usb hub with usb snes controller and wifi dongle (problem persists even without anything connected)
Guide: https://howchoo.com/g/mti0oge5nzk/pi-cart-a-raspberry-pi-retro-gaming-rig-in-an-nes-cartridge -
@jarymoon have you overclocked? You should try another PSU in case it's power related.
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Try different SD card with same image, and then different SD card with different (vanilla) image and see what results you get. This will help troubleshoot the issue.
I've had a ton of problems with cheap SD cards.
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@BuZz i havent overclocked, tried a different charger and it still freezes. Guess I'll try the sd card next.
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@Mobile.Rodri im using a 32gb SanDisk class 10 so im not sure the quality might be the problem but I'll definitely have to try a clean install again. Just not sure how I would go about installing a vanilla image? I'm a total noob when it comes to this so I have no idea. I'll have to try a different sd card as well as soon as I can get my hands on one.
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@jarymoon start with the official documentation.
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation
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I'll have to reformat my sd card and try it all over again. Will update you guys later.
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Hey guys, update..
I tried a new sandisk ultra 32gb micro sd card with a newly downloaded image and my pi wouldn't even recognize it. I scrapped it and purchased a new samsung evo 64gb, redownloaded the image from github and booted up my pi. It booted fine so I left it idle to see if I could recreate the problem, no update or upgrade just clean install and again it continues to freeze if I leave it alone for even 2-3 mins. Again, this only happens if my pi is left alone and not running any processes, I could leave a game running and it wont freeze which makes me think it's some sort of reading issue. I updated it and upgraded it again using the sudo apt-get command and the problem persists. So far I have tried 3 different micro sd cards, a 5v 2A charger purchased from ebay, a cellphone charger, with and without usb hub connected (controllers and wifi dongle), without update and now with an update for a second time. I'm beginning to think it could be a hardware problem on my raspberry pi zero itself. Really stumped here =/
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Have you downloaded the right image pi0/pi1? :-)
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@ivarwa yes, image file is for zero
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There are tons of fake sd cards out there by the way...
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It's not a fake sd card but I think I have confirmed it is a faulty unit. I decided to look in the vendor's, adafruit support forums and found this. https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=109254&p=545910&hilit=freeze+pi#p545910
It seems im not the only one having this issue, I have since contacted them for a replacement or return and now im just waiting on their reply. Thank you everyone.
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