Please Help!
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@Fastcat4 Emptied the SD card? Do you mean reformatted and reimage it? That's what I said you should do, but that's not clear.
Could be a bad SD card, but unless you follow the initial install instructions in the wiki correctly you won't know for sure.
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@markyh444
I reformatted to 32. But I also deleted everything off of card. So did I delete the operating system off the sd card that came with pI -
@Fastcat4 I don't know what you mean by reformatted to 32. Do you mean wiped the card and its a 32GB card?
Is it on the Raspberry Pi compatibility list? A quick Google of that term should confirm so.
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@markyh444
It came with the raspberry pi. It has the logo on the sd card. I download retropie on it. Then because it was suggested to start over I formatted it to remove everything. Then reloaded the sd card. Re inserted it to rsp and now nothing shows on screen when it did before with same card -
@Fastcat4 how have you written the image to the card? You can't just copy and paste it into the sd card. Please detail the steps you've uses to do this. I would suggest following the guide in the wiki.
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@markyh444 I downloaded retropie to a file on my desktop. Then I copied it from that file to the SD card. That's how I did it the first without issue. That's why I think I erased exe file or start up command off the sd card.
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@Fastcat4 No. That is not how you burn the image to the sd card. Please read the first installation section of the wiki and follow it. I've said to do this three times now.
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@Fastcat4 said in Please Help!:
@markyh444 I downloaded retropie to a file on my desktop. Then I copied it from that file to the SD card. That's how I did it the first without issue. That's why I think I erased exe file or start up command off the sd card.
If you did this then nothing will happen. When you say you did this without issue before, you didn't. Try to remember what you did and post after following the very clear step by step guide to image burning using Win32 disk imager.
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@rbaker you both are right. I apologize. I used win 32 writer to put it on sd card. I backed tracked. And wrote it on the sd card and put it into pi and still no picture. But green light is blinking.
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@Fastcat4 you still need to provide the information as requested in post 2! For example, what is the rating of your power supply?
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@Fastcat4 Also a blinking green light means that the card cannot be read. So bad/fake card or a corrupt card or a write error when you burned the image. Bootleg cards often fail in this manner.
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@rbaker I bought all of it as a kit . I have the right power supply. I have the right sd card. It was working before I took the suggestion to start over again. I just needed to take roms off . And now I don't have anything. This while project has been nothing but trouble. Sorry to vent and I appreciate the help. It's just frustrating.
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@rbaker at one time I had everything downloaded. Emulators were working, every thing showed up on screen like expected. I don't know if when I took the sd card out that it damaged it. But it was fine just full and wouldn't let me set up the controller because the pi had no more room
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@Fastcat4 You are describing what to me sounds like a corrupt card. Regardless of it you bought it as a kit or not. I can bundle stuff together into a kit and sell it, but it doesn't mean much more than I've put a raspberry sticker on the SD card to micro SD card adapter then shipped them to you all together.
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@Fastcat4 You mean the card had no more room? This is unlikely if simply configuring a controller. What concerns me though is that you still have not posted what was requested in post 2! And, what is your power supply? why you don't post this stuff after being asked multiple times is quite frankly astonishing.
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@rbaker raspberry pi 3 model b v1.2, power adapter output :5v 2.5a , love rpi 8gb sd card. Because it had worked in the past I didn't see the point. But the pi was giving me the error message that ot didn't have enough space to install kodi or xboxdvr to use controller
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@Fastcat4 which image exactly did you download and burn to your sd card? Please name it exactly, the file name of the image you burned using Win 32 disk imager
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@Fastcat4 said in Please Help!:
didn't have enough space to install... xboxdvr to use controller
As a quick sidebar, it should be noted that unless you plan on key-mapping your controller, you should really be using the Xpad driver, as detailed here.
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@rbaker
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@Fastcat4 ok, do you notice how I am working my way down the list and asking for the things in post 2 again? If you had posted, we would have been past this stage in seconds? Next you need to post what you did to burn the image and which guide you followed.
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