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Raspberry Pi 3 Boots But LEDs Don't Light

deaconfrost

I recently bought my third Raspberry Pi 3 with the intention of setting it up for my nephew as a retro gaming system.

 

The Pi seems to work perfectly fine and is running RetroPie. However, I have no power or activity LED. They simply don't light up at all, at any time. I haven't found any other instances of this happening or suggestions to try. It has been running fine for about two hours total, but I'm concerned that this Pi is having a hardware issue and won't last very long.

 

Visually, I see no damage or anything different than the LED areas on my other Pis.

 

Any suggestions, or should I look to replace it?

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    The power led won't light if your power supply is not providing more than 4.65V measured at the pi itself. In that case you'd see a yellow lightning bolt in the upper right corner of your screen. Check that!

     

    If that's the case, I suggest you look for a better power supply. And you still have something wrong with the other led.

     

    If your power supply is OK, then you have two bad leds. It would seem that either both leds or both series resistors were forgotten or something like that. On the one hand, something that shouldn't happen, but in itself it won't cause the pi to have a short lifespan. But on the other hand, if your pi has these kinds of problems you don't know what is lurking below the surface right now..... If say in a years time you start using the I2C pins for the first time, then finding out that they forgot those resistors too, that would be annoying. So... My recommendation would be to double check that neither led works, that your power is sufficient, and then aim for a replacement pi (from whereever you  ordered it).

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    The power led won't light if your power supply is not providing more than 4.65V measured at the pi itself. In that case you'd see a yellow lightning bolt in the upper right corner of your screen. Check that!

     

    If that's the case, I suggest you look for a better power supply. And you still have something wrong with the other led.

     

    If your power supply is OK, then you have two bad leds. It would seem that either both leds or both series resistors were forgotten or something like that. On the one hand, something that shouldn't happen, but in itself it won't cause the pi to have a short lifespan. But on the other hand, if your pi has these kinds of problems you don't know what is lurking below the surface right now..... If say in a years time you start using the I2C pins for the first time, then finding out that they forgot those resistors too, that would be annoying. So... My recommendation would be to double check that neither led works, that your power is sufficient, and then aim for a replacement pi (from whereever you  ordered it).

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