Just to end this thread with an answer, I got a replacement Pi 4 and it worked immediately, without any troubleshooting required. The first was defective.

Well, after many hours of trying to get thing to boot up it went back from whence it came this afternoon. As a last resort I put the two Recovery files on an SD card and I got the flashing green led's as I should get, so it wasn't a faulty SD Card socket. When I took it into the shop he put it on t...

I purchased this thing on Friday and have just had chance to to try and use it this evening. I am getting exactly the same probelm, there is a flurry of the green LED when I attach the power supply and the it settles into the four flash routine. I have reloaded the images onto the SD Card from the ...

I had similar problems with my new RPi4B, what I have at present that seems to work, in config.txt, is, hdmi_force_hotplug:0=1 hdmi_group=2 ## for HDMI monitor hdmi_mode=39 ## for 1360x768 resolution After that, I at least got a working set up, so might work for you, might need to change where I ha...

There is a summary of all the knowledge accumulated from these forums during the past 7 years about difficulties getting an RPi to boot, see - STICKY: Is your Pi not booting? (The Boot Problems Sticky) - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=58151 I've read it and I'm still in...

Some input would be appreciated. How can I differentiate between a boot issue and a display issue?

0x0luke wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 06, 2019 4:26 pm

Drilled it down to something weird i've never had to deal with before - It won't boot without an HDMI, got the usual recommendations of hdmi_hotplug_enabled set to 1

Did you get it working by adding this line to the config txt file?

Tried Raspian Buster Desktop with formatted SD card using SDformater. Still get the same outcome of 4 flashes pattern. Can someone please confirm that this is an issue reading the start.elf file and not related to HDMI/Display. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCRFSTftHtM&feature=youtu.be Edit: I...

try Raspbian Buster with desktop download it then get a 32gb card I got these for my pi4's https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073JWXGNT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 format them with sdformater then open etcher locate the 2019-06-20-raspbian-buster.img then select the drive w...

G160 wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 06, 2019 9:32 am

There is no OSMC for Pi4 available currently.

So putting my already setup OSMC SD card from my Pi3b will never boot in Pi4?

HawaiianPi wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 06, 2019 4:52 am

What are you using for a power supply?

Official mHDMi and Power Supply.

I've now tried Noobs but to no avail.

I've also adjusted the config file for hdmi_force_hotplug=1.

I've since got another SD card and installed Raspian Duster Lite on it. Confirmed it worked on Rasperry Pi 3B and inserted into Pi 4 - still nothing. Just 4 flashing light pattern.

I feel like the SD card slot is goosed.

Hi,

Just got the pi4 and unable to get it to boot either osmc or raspian buster.

Both the sd cards used work in my pi3b without issue. I see the start.elf file in the boot partition and all.

The green light is flashing 4 times whether the sd card is in or out. Any ideas?

Please help.