Raspberry Pi crashes within a minute of boot

[LukeJenx]

Hi guys,

Basically I have had my Pi for just over a month, yet today is my first day of actually playing with it. I previously had it turned on to use read a tutorial whilst installing some RAM in my Mac and it worked fine.

But today when I've started it up, using the same power supply (although I have tried another one also), it crashes within a minute. I have reinstalled the entire operating system, thinking it may have been something with that. Nothing has changed.

I have enough time to boot and login. So I removed my USB device and attempted to leave it run without any usb or hdmi output. However, it still crashed.

I have read that there may be a problem with the actual devices, but I don't think this is the case with my pi (having used it before). I will have be getting some additional micro usb connectors this weekend and I'll have a check to see if it is a power problem. If it isn't a power problem does anybody have an idea how to fix this?

Thanks in advance,
LJ

[legendlutfi]

Probably editing the config file will help.

What operating system are you using?
What lights on the Raspberry Pi stay on after it crashed?

[AdamPater]

I've been trying to understand some similar crashes recently. I think I got some benefit out of using the little time I had after logging to update software and firmware (using apt-get update/upgrade and rpi-update).

I'm not certain that it really helped but seemed to. A bit. I recommend hopping on one leg while holding a chicken at midnight during the whole process. Just in case.

[LukeJenx]

Hi guys,

I'm using Wheezey the 9th of Feb release, before this it was mostly likely around mid Jan release of Wheezey.

After it crashes the red light stays on, everything else just goes blank.

I can't complete a full update, this was the first think I attempted to fix this problem.

The config file has no been edited in any way either.

LJ

[legendlutfi]

Try cooling it down with a fan of some sort, or try other method of keeping it cool if you don't have a fan.
If it stays on afterwards, that means your Raspberry Pi is overheating somehow.

Reducing the Frequency of ARM in MHz can help. The default is 700MHz
Using windows or mac edit the config file on your sdcard with notepad.
( Don't put a value higher than 700, as this is overclocking, and can malfunction your Raspberry Pi)

Add
#This reduces the processor to 500 MHz instead of 700 MHz
arm_freq=500

This will reduce the power and probably the heat of the Raspberry Pi, if it does work then your Raspberry Pi has a heat problem.

Edit: Other thing to add is trying to set up your HDMI in config, it could also be a monitor output issue.
Here is a link with config options:
(http://elinux.org/RPiconfig)

[LukeJenx]

I've reduced the speed to 500, and I pointed a fan at it, still nothing. When I hold it after it crashes it's freezing anyway.

:/ LJ