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Raspberry Pi3 Does not boot up - Green light does not lit

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I purchased a Raspberry Pi3 last week, after spending couple of days trying to get it to boot up I gave up and purchase another one. I am having the same issues, it just would not boot up, i.e. the green light does not lit -- which I think means that is Not reading the SD card to load the Operating System. This is what I have done so far:

Used a 5v/2A power supply, use a 5v/2.4A power supply.

Used the SD with the preloaded OS that I purchased - no luck

Purchase another SD card, formatted it and load Noobs sw on it - still no luck

I removed every thing that is plugged in the PI3 except for the power supply, still no luck.

 

Anyone out there who is experiencing the same issue???

Does your one works out of the box?

 

What am i doing wrong???

 

What should the voltage/Amp for the power supply be? is it 5v/2.5A?

Help please.. Gerard

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    I am in the same boat as original poster:

    - new Pi 3 from Microcenter

    - SD card was booting up Pi 2, same card didn't boot in Pi 3

    - So reflashed with fresh download of NOOB and current Raspbian

    - Same SD card continues to boot Pi 2 with reflashed current NOOB/Raspbian but fails to light up Green light on new Pi 3 and seems to give no output

    - So SD card itself is fine -- does booting it in Pi 2 cause some change in SD card that would fail it in Pi 3?

     

    At what point do I conclude Pi 3 is defective (never booted before)? I dislike the lack of spring push/pop mechanism in Pi 3 but understand it was done to alleviate SD problems and now the SD card is a friction fit in Pi 3 onwards, just not sure if I am not pushing it in properly, it is seated well or not or something else with pi 3

     

    Thanks for any pointers

  • 0 in reply to ennemm

    The on-the-street hearsay is that >90% of any returns are user error, and not faulty Pi's. There isn't enough detail to conclude that the Pi is defective.

    Some more information would be needed, specifically what power supply and cable are you using? What else is attached? And is there a photo showing the insertion of the micro SD card, if there is any doubt from you that it may not be pushed/seated correctly.

  • 0 in reply to shabaz

    Thanks for responding. I will get more details to you esp power supply and photo,  as soon as I can get to the device at home.

     

    Meanwhile, as mentioned, same (recently full formatted new NOOBS/Raspbian) SD card when used with same setup (USB cables, power cable) inserted in identical way but into my RPi 2 works just fine. RPi 3 shows no green light any time.  Only power supply and monitor USB plugged in.  With or without keyboard and mouse same result.

  • 0 in reply to ennemm

    Solved.  Went to Microcenter, bought a new identical RPi 3, bought a recommended power supply. Put the same SD card in and all worked. Then swapped just the problematic RPi 3 and only red light. So concluded faulty unit and showed and informed them, they swapped it!  The new R Pi 3 works fine even with my regular 2v phone charger.

     

    So I got the rare bad apple. Should have done this sooner.

     

    But thanks all for the suggestions and to OP for this thread.

  • 0 in reply to ennemm

    Great, glad it is solved! Many other supplies are borderline, because the Pi spec is slightly different to what USB standard specifies, so the 3A supply is 'special' in that it has thicker wires than normal, and possibly quite tight specification on the voltage output. But other supplies and USB cables can work, just sometimes hard to know for sure unless it is tried.

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  • 0 in reply to ennemm

    Great, glad it is solved! Many other supplies are borderline, because the Pi spec is slightly different to what USB standard specifies, so the 3A supply is 'special' in that it has thicker wires than normal, and possibly quite tight specification on the voltage output. But other supplies and USB cables can work, just sometimes hard to know for sure unless it is tried.

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