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Is my Raspberry Pi finished out of the start gate?

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I took delivery this past week.  Waited until I could download an OS and install it onto a 32 Gig SD card before I begin playing with it.  Once I did that, I plugged it in and......nothing.  Tried the composit vidio....nothing.  Tried the HDMI port.....nothing.  I was expecting at least some kind of a BIOS screen even if it didn't see an OS.  So.....is it DOA?

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  • One thing that appears to be common from the troubleshooting section of the other board is people attempting to write the .zip rather than the actual .img file (though that is with dd, I don't think win32diskimager will let you choose a .zip file).  They've also suggested do a quick format of the card to make sure that you're actually written anything to the card.

     

    I've also seen talk from a couple people that the wheezy image doesn't work with their pi until they update the the firmware files off the github.  To do this you'd delete everything off the 70MB partition except the config.txt and save the contents from here

     

    https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot

     

    to the partition.

     

    John's suggest about the TP1-TP2 test voltages also is a common test point. 

     

    If none of these works you might want to posting over in the RPF's troubleshooting section.  They have a lot more people over so the odds are higher someone has had the problem you're describing and they're pretty nice in the troubleshooting section.

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  • One thing that appears to be common from the troubleshooting section of the other board is people attempting to write the .zip rather than the actual .img file (though that is with dd, I don't think win32diskimager will let you choose a .zip file).  They've also suggested do a quick format of the card to make sure that you're actually written anything to the card.

     

    I've also seen talk from a couple people that the wheezy image doesn't work with their pi until they update the the firmware files off the github.  To do this you'd delete everything off the 70MB partition except the config.txt and save the contents from here

     

    https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot

     

    to the partition.

     

    John's suggest about the TP1-TP2 test voltages also is a common test point. 

     

    If none of these works you might want to posting over in the RPF's troubleshooting section.  They have a lot more people over so the odds are higher someone has had the problem you're describing and they're pretty nice in the troubleshooting section.

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