raspberry pi help

28 Jul 2014

i have been sing my raspberry pi as usual and suddenly it turned off. the power light dimmed and then completely went off. i tried sing the test points on the pi and they only read 1.37 volts. i use the normal micro usb plug to power it with a power supply rated at 5 volts at 2 amps. it is broken?

the poly fuse is not blown?

thanks michael

Former Member over 6 years ago

hello everyone i am very new to pi.... just bought my raspberry pi 3 ....the problem is that i don't have any touch screen (no money for that right now :-p) and when i tried to connect it with LAN cable to my laptop ( with putty ) it's not establishing any kind of connection .....even the light on the port is not blinking ....please help me... :-( .
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lm386 over 8 years ago in reply to hawkeyethehacker

i found out when i desoldered the capacitor it was blown so i just replaced it with a through hole 220 uf capacitor that i bent the leads sideways and found out it worked fine again!
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hawkeyethehacker over 8 years ago

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but have you been holding the silver capacitor when you have plugged it in? I did that to mine and snapped it.

EDIT: Same Dim power light when an SD card is plugged in? Have you tried swapping the power supply?
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