Pi overheating after soldering?
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@rbaker Well, new Information. The Boot Loop IS because of some Corruption. I tested with a new SD Card. But, I still have the problem of Overheating.
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@darkside1305 What do you class as overheating? Is it operational? Is it in a case? With regard to corruption, it appears you must be shutting down by pulling the power or your card is not genuine.
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@rbaker Well, after around 10-20 Seconds the Pi shows the first Temperature Warning. After another 10 Seconds it switches to the second.
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@darkside1305 Is it in a case? Fans? Heatsinks? Does the Pi work? Is it during use or idle?
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No, it doesnt have a Fan anymore. It has 2 Heatsinks on top. The Pi works, but is overheating far too quickly as I already said, it overheats during startup. I was not in a Case when I tried
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@darkside1305 Are you overclocking?
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@rbaker I overclocked it with the Old SD Card, yes.
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@DarkSide1305 Then you need to remove the overclock as this is part of the issue - how aggressive is your overclock? configs?- If you would have filled out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, you would have said this (configs) - fill it out to enable further support. I think you may have damaged it during your soldering. You should get a volt meter and measure the voltage at the 3.3V pin with respect to ground. I would do this with the SD removed. Is it 3.3V? You should not be getting a hot Pi at boot, it suggests a very poorly Pi.
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@rbaker I dont have or know anyone with a Volt Meter. Im just gonna give up any buy a new RaspberryPi some day. Thanks for your support either way.
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Check your power supply. If its a generic power supply its highly likely that it won't supply anywhere near the 2.5A the PI3 NEEDS to run correctly
You NEED a good power supply, not a generic cheap one, I'm guessing its a cheap one without knowing the brand. Generic power supplies are usually designed very cheaply and will charge a mobile phone but thats about it. A good power supply for the PI3 and even more the pi3B+ are not cheap, but well worth the extra money as it should avoid all your issues, especially if overclocked
I bought an official PI power supply that wasn't cheap but has never flagged up a power supply warning, and its overclocked to its limits with a BIG heatsink on the CPU and fan on top as I use it for OSMC KODI and RetroPie installed via RetroSMC. Runs N64 and PSX without any problems
Soldering directly to any PCB is not a good idea unless you have very accurate soldering skills and a low power soldering iron with a narrow tip. As suggested did you use a resistor with LED (your message suggests not). The LED may be drawing far too much power and the PI just can't manage it and run itself
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@steptoe I think you didn't read the entire post. It was the Power Supply that came with my Pi. "The LED may be drawing far too much power", that could be the Case, if I hadn't told in this post multiple times that the LED is not even connected to the Pi anymore. And, my Power Supply is enough for my Pi. My Pi worked flawless with Overclocking and with the Reset Switch. I just damaged my Pi with sodering the LED.
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