RPI 3B not booting

[studentRPI]

Hi everyone,


I have a Raspberry Pi 3B and trying to get started. I managed to format the SD and copy the OS into it. But once I powered on my Pi, I get no HDMI signal on my monitor. I did some digging to check if my board is dead. I tested the pins and the voltage levels were fine. But when I tried the recovery steps from the raspberry website, there were no flashing green lights as expected:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/.

Once I powered it, there was no green light flashing but only a stable red light. I suspect this is the cause. Could a corrupted SPI EEPROM mean that I can't boot my pi? And if it was corrupted, does this mean it is dead and is there any fix to this?


Thanks in advance!

[davidcoton]

The Pi3B does not have an EEPROM. That (and the support programs/downloads that go with it) belong to the Pi4B.

[drgeoff]

I managed to format the SD and copy the OS into it.

Explain in full detail what you did and how. And state the capacity of the card.

[studentRPI]

I managed to format the SD and copy the OS into it.

Explain in full detail what you did and how. And state the capacity of the card.

I started by formatting the SD card which is 32 GB, and I used the Raspberry Pi Imager to copy the OS. I selected the Raspbian as its OS. Then inserted it to check, but no display after. Did I miss any steps in between?

[W. H. Heydt]

I managed to format the SD and copy the OS into it.

Explain in full detail what you did and how. And state the capacity of the card.

I started by formatting the SD card which is 32 GB, and I used the Raspberry Pi Imager to copy the OS. I selected the Raspbian as its OS. Then inserted it to check, but no display after. Did I miss any steps in between?

How do you know it is really 32GB? What formatting parameters did you use? What program did you use to format it? You know, the requested full details of how you went about it.

[studentRPI]

Explain in full detail what you did and how. And state the capacity of the card.

I started by formatting the SD card which is 32 GB, and I used the Raspberry Pi Imager to copy the OS. I selected the Raspbian as its OS. Then inserted it to check, but no display after. Did I miss any steps in between?

How do you know it is really 32GB? What formatting parameters did you use? What program did you use to format it? You know, the requested full details of how you went about it.

I have a SanDisk Ultra 32GB microSDHC UHS-I Card, and you're right it isn't 32GB but 14.4 GB to be exact. From the raspberry website above, I downloaded its Raspberry Pi Imager for Windows. Not sure what you meant with parameters too, are you referring to the program parameters from the imager? If so, there was only two sections: OS and SD Card. The OS was Raspbian as recommended (1st option when selecting). And the SD card was the one I mentioned. Just selected "write" and waited for it to say complete or done. Ejected SD and inserted it in my Pi to test.