Possibly you've "blown" the fuse - if you're lucky. It will reset itself if you leave it unpowered for a while. Try leaving it overnight and try again in the morning. the part with spamming words What does that even mean? :roll: You know! The part where is scrolls down and you (hopefully) see [OK] ...

Connecting the 5V and 3.3V pins together is normally fatal, as it puts 5V on the 3.3V power rail. expect your PI to, in due time, to suddenly expire! :( the reason not to dedicate a GPIO for shut-down is that it will make the GPIO unusable for other tasks. If you want to have it that function, enab...

That's what I call the kernel log / boot messages too! I fear the worst for your Pi Bob. Is any component on the board getting hotter than usual? It works! When it black screened, I waited a minute and nothing happened. So I unplugged it, fearing that this could be bad. I reformatted the mSD card, ...

Thanks. Every time I do something stupid (eg, accidentally connect two GPIO), it's the mSD card that I have to reformat. Uhhg!

It only gets past the first part of booting, the part with spamming words, then goes to a blinking "_" with a small "rainbow" in the top right

I accidentally touched the two left most GPIO together(5 & 3.3 volts). My pi restarted, and won't boot. Help!

Hi! I took my brand new Samsung 16 gb EVO class 10 micro SD card out, and put it in my computer because my new Raspberry pi 2 B was giving out of storage errors, and I wanted to diagnose the problem. I was stunned to find out that it claimed to only have 60mb of space, but a quick search online reve...