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Raspberry PI3 not booting

Hi !

I have a Raspberry PI 3B+, downloaded the latest image today and burned it with baleaEtcher to an 64 and 32GB SD Card.

The Pi is not showing anything bejond the colored screen?


Any help is very welcome.


Thanks a lot,


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markus answered ·

Hi,

please try again using Win32DiskImager.

https://raspberry-projects.com/pi/pi-operating-systems/win32diskimager

This is a proven way to write RPI Images to SD cards.

Regards,

Markus

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digitalxxl answered ·

Hi @Markus,

thank you very much for your quick reply.

Unfortunately there is no windows available here.

Any other Image I tested now (jessie or octopi for ex.) are working well.

So I am not sure the Problem is the etcher software?

Maybe any other idea ?

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markus avatar image markus ♦♦ commented ·

Did you try writing an older Venus Image to the SD card? Does that work?

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markus avatar image markus ♦♦ markus ♦♦ commented ·

@digitalxxl which file exactly did you write to the card?

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digitalxxl answered ·

Good Morning !

I have now switched to the pi4 which has done other things in my home before and burned the image for the pi4 (which i found here: https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/25666/venus-on-raspberry-pi-4.html) to the 32GB SD-Card with Etcher and everything starts up perfectly and works like expected.

Why my pi3B+ does not start up is totally unclear at the moment. Nevertheless I have ordered another 3B+ to rule out any hardware issues.

I will report back once the new pi has arrived. ;)


Cheers and regards,

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tb avatar image tb commented ·

Hi @digitalxxl,

did you manage to make your pi 3B+ work? I've had a similar problem, with the pi booting the first time but the console shows nothing and sometimes after around 5 to 8 minutes it restarts and stays on the black screen of the console with nothing on it.

Sometimes it just shows the colored screen of the pi and won't pass from it.

I burned the image of the Venus OS v.2.70~15 with BalenaEtcher on macOS.

I tested the pi and the same SD card with Venus OS v2.66 and it worked without issues, so I know is the v.2.70 that's just not working here.

Cheers,

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Hi !

No, that pi I had was not able to boot the sd image (RS Electronics).

I bought a new pi3B+ from another company and it worked perfectly.

The two look quite different even they both are telling they are pi3b+.

The one that is not willing to boot from the sd image also has other problems in other environments. My guess is that it might be buggy.

Hope that helps..

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