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    Can't even get to the startup screen

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      barczakj
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      I'm brand new to this.
      I got a new Pi 3, loaded RetroPie 4.1 onto a 32GB card (following the directions from the RetroPie website), inserted the SD card into the Pi, attached a keyboard, hooked up the TV via HDMI, and plugged it into a 2.5A power supply. It started up, showed me the four berries and eventually stopped at a DOS-like screen that's giving me a "pi@retropie:~ $" prompt. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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        rbaker @barczakj
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        @barczakj said in Can't even get to the startup screen:

        I'm brand new to this.
        I got a new Pi 3, loaded RetroPie 4.1 onto a 32GB card (following the directions from the RetroPie website), inserted the SD card into the Pi, attached a keyboard, hooked up the TV via HDMI, and plugged it into a 2.5A power supply. It started up, showed me the four berries and eventually stopped at a DOS-like screen that's giving me a "pi@retropie:~ $" prompt. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

        Yeah, I reckon you either:

        a) Have a corrupted card or a non-genuine one.

        OR

        b) You burned the image for the Pi Zero / 1 instead of the image for the Pi 2/3 - you have a quad core because you see 4 raspberries

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          BuZz administrators @rbaker
          last edited by

          @rbaker the rpi1 image will work on the rpi2/3 but not the other way around.

          Probably a bad sdcard or badly written image.

          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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            barczakj
            last edited by barczakj

            I'm sure I loaded the right version of RetroPie. The SD card is a class 10 PNY. I guess I reformat the card and try it again. If that doesn't work I'll get one of the SD cards listed at http://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards

            Thanks.

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