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lhfrew over 7 years ago

Purchased a new Raspberry pi 3 +B, with SD card. All I get is the splash screen on the monitor. What can I do? Previous PI 3 works fine.

Larry

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fvan over 7 years ago
Sounds like your software is not up-to-date and doesn't have support for the 3B+ yet.

While the SD card is in a different Pi:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y sudo rpi-update

That will update the software and firmware. The card should then work in your 3B+.
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lhfrew over 7 years ago in reply to fvan

OK, I'm an idiot... What do I do from the start-up screen before I type
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y sudo rpi-update?
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jomoenginer over 7 years ago in reply to lhfrew

I would suggest to just reimage the SD with the latest version of Rasbian (if that is what you want to run). The hardware on the RasPi 3 B+ is different than a standard 3 so the drivers will be different and you could run into other issues down the road.

You can get the image from:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

However, if the B+ came with a preloaded SD card, then I would ensure you inform the vendor you got the board from that the image on the SD card does not work with the B+.
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jomoenginer over 7 years ago in reply to lhfrew

I would suggest to just reimage the SD with the latest version of Rasbian (if that is what you want to run). The hardware on the RasPi 3 B+ is different than a standard 3 so the drivers will be different and you could run into other issues down the road.

You can get the image from:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

However, if the B+ came with a preloaded SD card, then I would ensure you inform the vendor you got the board from that the image on the SD card does not work with the B+.
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