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  • Date Created: 21 Oct 2019 2:20 PM Date Created
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My Raspberry Pi 4 does not boot?

clem57
clem57
21 Oct 2019

Recovery

If your Raspberry Pi 4 will not boot, it is possible that the SPI EEPROM has become corrupted.

To check, remove the SD card, disconnect the device from power, then reconnect it. If the green LED does not flash, you will need to reprogram the EEPROM:

  1. Download the bootloader
    imageSHA-256: 2c5610682edfa2c3a2a41832c687559d8f091b9e48abaeb8577cca2a0cc81839
  2. Extract it to an empty FAT-formatted SD card and insert it into your Raspberry Pi 4
  3. Connect the power and wait for the green LED to flash quickly

Notes:

  • The updated bootloader improves compatibility with HATs by changing the behaviour of HALT to keep the 3V3 pin powered (view the full bootloader release notes)
  • The previous bootloader remains available for download

 

From: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 6 years ago in reply to cstanton +1
    I believe this is an area where they might add new features and other possibilities. And this is a departure from the past reliance on the SD card. We will have to wait and see ... Clem
  • cstanton
    cstanton over 5 years ago in reply to tony1959 +1
    Have you made sure that you're using a good quality 5v 3amp power supply for it?
  • clem57
    clem57 over 6 years ago in reply to cstanton

    I believe this is an area where they might add new features and other possibilities. And this is a departure from the past reliance on the SD card. We will have to wait and see ...

    Clem

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    cstanton over 6 years ago

    It's an interesting new feature of the Raspberry Pi 4 that the bootloader can be re-flashed. I wonder what capabilities it exposes, aside from improved PoE capability.

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