Just to close out something.
I bought a pi4 8GB ages ages ages ago.
Tried to install it, having already set up a 2Gb and 4Gb successfully, but the 8Gb would not boot.
I tried numerous times to no avail, sought advice a few times here but nothing worked.
Felt I had a dead board.
Decided to give it a last shot.
I used same power cable, keyboard, mouse, screen hdmi cable, sd card as my working setup pi. So it should be clear that my accessories are all working 100% ( as before) but using latest pi sw.
And no it still didn’t work.
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The thing that I had been wondering all along was this board came in an OKDO box with slightly different label on the back than my other pi boxes from pi hut.
Was this board different in any slight way, power supply or something??
This was my last try, I had to assume the board is dead on arrival and nothing I was going to do wld help.
Before giving up I tried the other hdmi cable coming out of my tv and yeah you guessed it the **** thing worked!!!!
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So despite it not making a lot of sense, at least to me, from a logical standpoint, I decided to add this in case anyone else has any issue like this, that you can’t be 100% sure about even working accessories.
Hope it saves even 1 person the aggro I went through.
I bought a pi4 8GB ages ages ages ago.
Tried to install it, having already set up a 2Gb and 4Gb successfully, but the 8Gb would not boot.
I tried numerous times to no avail, sought advice a few times here but nothing worked.
Felt I had a dead board.
Decided to give it a last shot.
I used same power cable, keyboard, mouse, screen hdmi cable, sd card as my working setup pi. So it should be clear that my accessories are all working 100% ( as before) but using latest pi sw.
And no it still didn’t work.
The thing that I had been wondering all along was this board came in an OKDO box with slightly different label on the back than my other pi boxes from pi hut.
Was this board different in any slight way, power supply or something??
This was my last try, I had to assume the board is dead on arrival and nothing I was going to do wld help.
Before giving up I tried the other hdmi cable coming out of my tv and yeah you guessed it the **** thing worked!!!!
So despite it not making a lot of sense, at least to me, from a logical standpoint, I decided to add this in case anyone else has any issue like this, that you can’t be 100% sure about even working accessories.
Hope it saves even 1 person the aggro I went through.
Statistics: Posted by girlintrouble — Fri Dec 06, 2024 12:35 pm