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    Rainbow screen on boot with good Retropie img but Pixel image boots fine

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      Richard1234
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      Hi,
      I've been scratching my head over this. I got my Pi0 running the retropie-4.1-rpi1_zero latest image and after a couple of hours use my SD card died with a journalling error while scraping.

      Since then I've tried 4 SD cards and they all refuse to boot this image. I don't see any LED activity on the board and it just displays the rainbow screen. Strangely, when I use the same SD cards to load a latest raspbian pixel image it boots fine. I'm using a 1 A PSU.

      My SD cards are all good quality (2 Samsung cards and a 16 GByte San Disk I just bought specially to fix this issue). I'm using win32 disk imager. My downloaded image must be OK, it worked once. If my cards are the problem why does it work with pixel? I'm confused...

      Any help appreciated

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        herb_fargus administrators @Richard1234
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        @Richard1234 https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8878/new-4-1-20-retropie-images-for-testing

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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