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    Updated drivers in retropie setup, now causes system to crash while booting

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @LunaN0x
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      @LunaN0x said in Updated drivers in retropie setup, now causes system to crash while booting:

      selected Update All Drivers option in one of the packages menus

      What drivers do you have installed ? You normally don't need to install a driver unless you have a specific hardware device/gamepad that needs it.

      Rebooting the system it loads up to the Retropie splash screen thing and crashes.

      What does 'crash' mean ? Do you get an error on the screen from the system or from EmulationStation crashing ?

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        LunaN0x
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        Crash means, it gets up to emulationstation's RetroPie splashscreen and the screen promptly goes black and unresponsive. I selected update all drivers in an attempt to get the xbox one controller working on bluetooth since currently I have it plugged in USB.

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          LunaN0x
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          I'm sorry for the horrible quality of this video but maybe this explains it even slightly

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            mitu Global Moderator @LunaN0x
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            @LunaN0x said in Updated drivers in retropie setup, now causes system to crash while booting:

            I selected update all drivers in an attempt to get the xbox one controller working on bluetooth since currently I have it plugged in USB.

            Yes, but which drivers did you install ? Did you install all of them ?

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              LunaN0x @mitu
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              @mitu Yes, I installed all of them.

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                mitu Global Moderator
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                There was an old issue when installing the controlblock driver - the controlblock service would shutdown the system - right on boot - if there wasn't a ContolBlock attached.
                However, this was solved and you need to explicitely configure the Controlblock service to start in order for that to happen. From your short video, I see something similar happening. You didn't mention what version of RetroPie version you have (latest is a little vague), but did you do any such configuration after installing the Controlblock driver ?

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                  LunaN0x @mitu
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                  @mitu Sorry for the vagueness, like I said I'm pretty new to this, and I only am able to see info that's visible on the SD card like looking at it in file explorer so I can't really tell anything. This is the guide I used to install RetroPie itself https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Manual-Installation/

                  I've added Scraper, skyscraper, and I think that's about all for optional packages.

                  I didn't configure anything though like you mentioned before this happened, like I said it went from updating installers to crashing like in the video, I'll see if I can get a clearer photo of any of the text

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                    LunaN0x @mitu
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                    @mitu 87521930_636380053821377_5660556666068795392_n.jpg

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                      mitu Global Moderator @LunaN0x
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                      @LunaN0x The picture shows a disk check - probably because you've cut the power without shutting the Pi properly.
                      I'd suggest you reinstall - if you're just starting out - and don't needlessly install any drivers. For the XBox BT driver, there's an alternative driver which is not part of RetroPie - github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo.

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                        rejesterd
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                        Did you wait a while to let the disk check finish?

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