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Posted: **Tue Aug 15, 2017 2:37 am**

Hello, I purchased a sense HAT to help get my son excited about weather data acquisition but the LEDs stay latched on the rainbow colors. I understand that the LEDs should go clear once the boot process is complete. Please help

Posted: **Tue Aug 15, 2017 12:09 pm**

Hi there
Okay so if that happens it either means the EEPROM on the Sense HAT isn't working, or the EEPROM ID pins are not connected between the HAT and the Pi. Which happens if you're using a shorter pin header.

The good news is you can override this by adding a line to config.txt. Open a Terminal window and enter the command below:

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sudo nano /boot/config.txt

Scroll to the bottom of the file and append this line:

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dtoverlay=rpi-sense

Now press Ctrl - O, followed by Enter to Save. Then Ctrl - X to quit.

Then type in the command below to reboot:

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sudo reboot

Hopefully that should do it. If this doesn't help it might be that you need to update your SD card to the latest version and then try again.

Posted: **Sat Aug 19, 2017 11:23 am**

Will also happen if you forgot to put your SD card in, or accidentally ejected it.

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