Boot sequence repeating over and over and over and over and over and over again.
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Hello, I have been trying to install retro Pie on my Raspberry Pi 3 model B for the past 2 and a half hours now. I first tried this yesterday and it worked, I would plug in the SD card and after about 5 minutes of boot looping I would be able to access the OS. Today, the boot loop just goes on forever. So I have tried formatting my SD card using SD formatter and rewriting the image to it. No difference whatsoever. I am using an 8 GB sd card formatted in FAT. I am seriously loosing hope here, any ideas? No, this is not a hardware problem I have always held my pi by the edges. I have the correct download, the recommended image writer, everything is perfect. It just dosen't work and I just cannot understand why. Do I need to format my 8GB SD card to some mysterious file system everyone but me knows of? I am just lost.
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@TheNerdyDev the format of your sd card is irrelevant because the image writer overwrites it :)
what are you actually seeing on screen during these boot cycles? please also read and provide the details shown here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
without that information, i would guess it's either poor powersupply or a bad sd card.
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One second, ill gather the info
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http://imgur.com/a/99nrh Here are the two things I see and they repeat forever.
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@dankcushions I have tried doing this with a 64GB sd card with the same results.
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what powersupply are you using? for a pi3 it should be 5.1v 2.5a, but i think a lot of people seem to end up with 2a power supplies which can cause issues like this.
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@dankcushions On my charger it is written 5.0V - 0.7A
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@TheNerdyDev said in Boot sequence repeating over and over and over and over and over and over again.:
@dankcushions On my charger it is written 5.0V - 0.7A
then i'm impressed it got as far as it did :) you need to buy a proper pi3 charger (5.1v, 2.5a) - https://thepihut.com/products/official-raspberry-pi-universal-power-supply is the 'official' one although others to right spec should work.
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@TheNerdyDev Unfortunately that power supply is never going to be able to supply enough current to the Pi, especially if it's a Pi 3.
There's some information on my post: Looking after your Pi – Part 1 – The Importance of a Quality Power Supply (PSU)
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@dankcushions @RetroResolution Thank you guys so much, this fixed my issue right away, I am in love with my raspberry pi again! Wow! <3
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@TheNerdyDev great! Glad you were able to resolve the problem - enjoy the Pi!
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.7 amps, and it actually tried to boot... Amazing lol...
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