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R-Pi Troubleshooting
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This page lists the most common problems and suggests some solutions.
See RPi_Bugs for problems that are bugs.
Contents
▪ 1 Power / Start-up
▪ 1.1 Red power LED does not light, nothing on display
▪ 1.2 Red power LED is blinking
▪ 1.3 Red power LED is on, green LED does not flash, nothing on
display
▪ 1.4 Green LED blinks in a specific pattern
▪ 1.5 Coloured splash screen
▪ 1.6 Kernel Panic on boot
▪ 1.7 Raspberry Pi shuts down (or restarts) soon after booting up
▪ 1.8 Pi boots sometimes but not always
▪ 2 Keyboard / Mouse / Input Devices
▪ 2.1 R-Pi does not respond to key presses / Keyboard randomly repeats
key presses
▪ 2.2 Keyboard / Mouse interferes with USB WiFi device
▪ 2.3 Wireless Keyboard trouble
▪ 2.4 Re-mapping the keyboard with Debian Squeeze
▪ 2.5 Slow keyboard mapping
▪ 2.6 No USB device works, with known good PS, SD card, KB
▪ 3 Updating firmware
▪ 3.1 Check your firmware version
▪ 3.2 Get the latest firmware version
▪ 3.3 Choosing the right ARM/GPU memory split
▪ 4 SD cards
▪ 5 Networking
▪ 5.1 Ethernet connection is lost when a USB device is plugged in
▪ 5.2 Ethernet connects at 10M instead of 100M
▪ 5.3 Cannot ssh in to Pi
▪ 5.4 Network/USB chip gets too hot to touch