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    Not booting at all on a Pi3 B+

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      fiatfan
      last edited by

      Hi all,

      Attempting my first build and using the following:

      Pi Model or other hardware: Pi3 B+
      Power Supply used: Official Raspberry Pi 5v 2.5A
      RetroPie Version Used: 4.4
      Built From: direct download from retropie site, md5sum: 56988addb60361a2257a61c69d9fceac

      The image has been extracted from the zip file, written onto two different sd cards (both on the approved list, Sandisk 32GB's formatted in FAT32) - once with etcher and another with win32disk, just to try as many variables as possible - but when everything is plugged in, all I get on is the red power LED on constantly.

      Any ideas about what could be the issue here?

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        According to the Docs your power supply is faulty or the PI doesn't get enough power.

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          fiatfan
          last edited by

          No, the red light was on constantly so not a power supply issue.

          Oddly enough, it's sorted now thanks to the powers of YouTube (see this video:

          ). Pulled the SD card contacts a bit and we're away!

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          • EfriimE
            Efriim @fiatfan
            last edited by Efriim

            @fiatfan
            Semper fi.

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