[SOLVED] New Raspberry Pi won't boot

[isafish]

Hi,
Upon purchase of my new RPi, i installed the NOOBS onto my mac as i was instructed to do, however i came across a problem, and a rather major one at that, once i installed the NOOBS onto the SD card. I found that the Pi would not boot up at all, and when connected through micro USB and HDMI cables, only shows a red LED and nothing on the screen. I know this means that the Pi could not boot, but i don't know what was causing the problem.

FYI:

I've tried both a 4GB and 8GB PNY SD Card
I've tried multiple plugs and USB plug adapters
I've tried pressing numbers '1' and '2' on the keyboard to connect the Pi to the monitor

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[abishur]

Can you please list the exact steps you typed to install NOOBs to the SD card? Also after installing NOOBs were you able to successfully view the files on the SD card?

[FTrevorGowen]

Although I'm not a mac user, FWIW, you should be able to "cross-check" most of the "NOOBS Installation Process" against my screenshots etc. at http://www.cpmspectrepi.webspace.virgin ... stall.html , esp. the files extracted. A common "error" has been the copying of the (extracted) NOOBS folder, rather than its contents, to the SDHC card.
HTH, Trev.

[isafish]

Hi,
I inserted my SD card into the reader and then downloaded the NOOBS through the torrent link. The card was formatted using 'SDFormatter' during this time. I then added the extracted the NOOBS zip and dragged and dropped the 'NOOBS_v1_2_1' folder into the SD Card. From here, i could see the files on the SD card. I have attached a photo of the viewable files on the SD card.

[FTrevorGowen]

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I then added the extracted the NOOBS zip and dragged and dropped the 'NOOBS_v1_2_1' folder into the SD Card.
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Looks as if you copied the folder - you need to copy the contents of the folder (as per my previous post).
(Under Ubuntu linux I unzipped directly to the card - don't know whether you can do that on a Mac).
Trev.

[isafish]

Looks as if you copied the folder - you need to copy the contents of the folder (as per my previous post).
(Under Ubuntu linux I unzipped directly to the card - don't know whether you can do that on a Mac).
Trev.

I'm not entirely sure i'd know how to do this, even through looking at google. But i only have the unzipped folder, would it be possible for me to compress this folder and then unzip this onto the card to achieve the same result?

[Burngate]

So you've plugged your SD card into your Mac, and you've got a window open showing what's in it.
If it's not empty, throw everything away so that it is empty. No folders, no files, no nothing.

Now open a window showing what's in the zip file you downloaded. If it's only got the one folder (NOOBS_vx.x.x), go into that.
You should now see 8 files and 2 folders.

Now drag those 10 things into the card.

[isafish]

Oh deary me, how silly! Thank you very much to all of you, my Pi finally works!

Kind Regards