Pi wont start

[comrade6130]

I was in the middle of updating my new raspberry PI but it crashed in the update for wheezy software andt now the PI doesn't want to read any SD card i put in it, i have rewritten the software to the SD card

any ideas how i can fix this problem

[bgirardot]

Your post sounds like you tried different SD cards, if not, do try a different SD card if possible.

Does the green activity light on the RPi blink at all?

If the green activity does not blink at all please read the linked to thread below and see if pushing down gently on the sd card helps at all.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 28&t=22796

[comrade6130]

Ive tried 3 different SD cards and it blinks on and off constantly for two and other one just doesn't blink, ive tried gently pressing on the SD card but had no effect

[bgirardot]

How are you writing the SD cards?

[comrade6130]

Im using Win32DiskImager I reformat the SD cards remove the partitions and then use the file i downloaded of raspberry website and write it to the SD card

[bgirardot]

I should have suggested you look at the troubleshooting page first. My apologies.

I would have a look here:
www.elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting

As your issue could still be a power problem or one of the fuses could have gotten tripped and needs to cool down or something along those lines.

For power, the quick thing to try is unplug everything but the sd card and power cord and see if the green light flashes like it is reading the SD card. Then you can plug things in. The trouble shooting page describes all that.

Give it a read over from the beginning as it could help you recognize a symptom we are not seeing.

Let us know if you have any success or not and hopefully we can find a way to help if not.

[comrade6130]

My raspberry PI started up fine this morning i must of tripped one of the fuses

i do have another problem though im trying to connect my pi to my wifi i have the little dongle put all my details in for the wifi but i go to connect it and all it says is authenticating

[bgirardot]

My raspberry PI started up fine this morning i must of tripped one of the fuses

i do have another problem though im trying to connect my pi to my wifi i have the little dongle put all my details in for the wifi but i go to connect it and all it says is authenticating

Glad to hear it is working again.

I would start another thread about the wifi problem in this forum so people who are experienced with wifi can help out.

Need some info like what wifi adapter, what you have in your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file (no passwords of course), what you have in your /etc/network/interfaces file, and just for fun, the output of lsusb :O)

See you in that other thread, cheers!