Retropie 4.2 bootup to black screen
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Hi folks. New to Raspberry pie. I just bought a RP3 B and am trying to get the image on it. Here are my steps:
- Format SD card with SD Formatter. When it completes, it is an empty fat 32 partition.
- Use WinDisk32Imager to download the RetroPie 2/3 image onto the SD Card. I checked the hash and all checks out. It takes about 90 seconds and completes. (Note I also tried the 4.1 image since 4.2 is new.)
- Eject the card and put in the RP3.
- When I do this I get the solid red light and nothing else.
I have loaded NOOBS which works fine but I cannot seem to get the RetroPie image to work at all. I bought 3 different SD cards to see if it was that and all give the same result back. I bought this kit on Amazon with a 2.5a PS.
What in the world am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help!
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Did you unrar the Retropie image before you wrote it to the SD card?
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The SD Card has to be a class 10 card or try and re-download it.
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@thepk a class 10 card isn't required. A lower class will also work
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I used a couple 10 SD cards and an older 2 SD. I did decompress to get to the . img file. The card works fine with NOOBS. Keep ideas coming. Alternative is manual install but I really want to take advantage of the hard work everyone put into that image. :-)
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Do any other images work? What about the base Raspbian image from the Pi Foundation? Trying to rule out if it's RetroPie, or possibly the way your images are being written to the card.
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I downloaded the Raspian Jessie Lite image just now and it imaged up and booted fine. Seems like the file is the only thing that could be causing this but the checksum is good. I am stumped.
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Have you tried using Etcher? - https://etcher.io/
I'd download RetroPie again (don't use the image you've already downloaded) & try it.
[Make sure it is actually the Pi 2/3 image not the 0/1 you've downloaded. Silly I know, but just in case!]
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@DigitalMonkey That worked! I tried a few different ones just to check that and nothing worked but Etcher did! Thank you so much for the help!
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