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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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    My Pi 3 did not work straight out of the box. I used the official 2.5amp power supply which lights up the board with no hassles. However, the OS version I used was from an older NOOBS for Pi 2. Thinking that I had a dud board, I ordered another (in kit form) from another dealer. The kit had a Micro SD Card with NOOBS installed, and worked just fine. The NOOBS version was 1.8 and only contained Raspbian Jessie.

    While waiting delivery, I downloaded NOOBS version 1.9 from the Raspberry web site to have another go. I used a Download Manager program (Xtreme Download Manager) to ensure that all of the code was received. (Took an hour to finish). There is a lot of useful guides on the Raspberry Web Site to help with unzipping and loading onto the SD Card. The boot process with NOOBS 1.9 went OK but needed the Internet to download Rasbian and any other programs. I included OSMC and LibreELEC with Raspbian and maybe I should not have. The end result is that Raspbian does not load but the other 2 do. They are Media Centre programs. I will leave as is for the time being as I have the 1.8 Raspbian on the other card. One day I will download NOOBS 1.9 without the other programs to see what happens.

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    Peter thanks for the info. I am using the Noobs 1.9.2 version without any success. To copy the files on the Sd do you just do copy and paste, i.e all the items in the Noobs folder to the root directory of the SD card? What files do you have in the directory?

     

    The only thing that I have not done yet is to use a 5v/2.5A power supply which I can't find a place to purchase. Gerard

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    Hello Gerard.

    Element14 can supply a Power Supply part no 252078701 for $10.46 plus GST and postage. You might also like to access guide notes from www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=58151. This has heaps of info and links to other items of interest.

    All you need to know to get NOOBS loaded are these notes. The program I used to format the SD card is SDFormatter, a free download. The notes say to set Options---"Format Type:Full" and "Format Size Adjustment:On".

    Windows will unzip the NOOBS download into 3 folders and 14 files. In Windows Explorer, these items can be dragged from your unzipped location and dropped to the SD Card. Ensure that only these items are listed in the root of the SD Card and not under any other folder.

    With the SD Card in, Raspberry should boot up and show you a screen for you to connect to your Internet source so that the Raspbian download can finish. To avoid problem that I had, select Raspbian os only and none of the others. Hopefully you will be up and running.

    Peter