@mitu I will try that when I have time

@Enra6 Please give more details about your setup - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first - including what monitor/TV do you use.

ok based on this schematics
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/schematics/rpi_SCH_3bplus_1p0_reduced.pdf

i have found the culprit.

U8 chip leg 8 providing 3v3 volts to the board.
this ic is blown.

and if you check
STATUS
"ACT" LED
or
STATUS_LED_G in shematics you will se it needs 3v3 and comes from 3v3 line.
since 3v3 is blown or low voltage it will not boot.

check u11 pin5

I have already tried all of what you tell me.
Anyway thanks for trying helping me.
If someone has the same problem, the solution for me is to download retropie 4.3... - -‘

@neil_thomas82 said in Retropie won't load after every shut down. Then have to start over:

I shut the system down

How do you do this?

I've determined the problem was bad USB ports on my thunderbolt breakout hub. For some reason ApplePi-Baker doesn't notice that something went wrong and tells the user that the operation was successful. When I do it directly from my iMac's USB port, it took around an hour and the RetroPie is booting up successfully. This will now be the second time I have to return my OWC thunderbolt interface. :( Thanks for your help!

Hi Franke808, Here are three main possibilities:

The OS (written image) is corrupt/not present, The SD card is faulty, The Pi is faulty.

When you wrote the image to the SD card, in Windows did it show that the card had free (and used) space and that you could open that 'drive' and see files on the SD card? If not, then you possibly didn't extract the image file 'prior' to writing it using Win32 Disk Imager.

I had yesterday an situation that the Pi wouldn't boot with a reimaged (old) SD card. My problem was if I pressed the SD card in a certain place the Pi would boot. Long story short, the SD cards connection pads were worn and didn't make appropriate contact.
I was able to use a spare SD card and successfully use that. Tip: Use a micro SD card in an SD card adapter so if the contacts wear, you just swap out the adapter without having to rebuild your OS.

To test the Pi, try a different serviceable SD card.