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I have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and i have not used it for a while, I powered it up a couple days ago and it wouldn't boot... i erased everything and tried to reinstall the Os off of the Raspberry pi website. Whenever I turn it on the power butten glows red and does nothing. I think the act is supposed to glow green but mine isn't. Any advice would be great!

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2 minutes ago, everettrules said:

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and i have not used it for a while, I powered it up a couple days ago and it wouldn't boot... i erased everything and tried to reinstall the Os off of the Raspberry pi website. Whenever I turn it on the power butten glows red and does nothing. I think the act is supposed to glow green but mine isn't. Any advice would be great!

Red just means no OS detected on the microSD card.

Are you writing the OS to the disk with a tool like BalenaEtcher or Rufus, or downloading the already extracted version and just copy/pasting it? If you can, I recommend using an .iso file and BalenaEtcher to write it to the microSD card. 

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Which OS?

You could try NOOBS to load an OS on maybe. Try a different card.

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9 hours ago, BrinkGG said:

Red just means no OS detected on the microSD card.

Are you writing the OS to the disk with a tool like BalenaEtcher or Rufus, or downloading the already extracted version and just copy/pasting it? If you can, I recommend using an .iso file and BalenaEtcher to write it to the microSD card. 

I am using belinaEtcher and downloading noobs and just copy/pasting it then extracting it...

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14 hours ago, everettrules said:

I am using belinaEtcher and downloading noobs and just copy/pasting it then extracting it...

Make sure the SD card is formatted properly then. I've had that screw me over with so many Pis. 

Use the SD corp's formatter (Link) to fat32 or exFat, then use Etcher to write the iso from here

Forgot that noobs just gives you an extracted format already. if the contents of the Zip folder is NOT an iso, (Boot files and such) then just copy the entire contents to your SD card, then remove it immediately after competition. (Make sure to eject it though.) 

 

EDIT: The rPi website gives you a step by step guide on the website here for setting up noobs. Here's the link: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/raspberry-pi-setting-up/3

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On 7/24/2019 at 10:48 AM, everettrules said:

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and i have not used it for a while, I powered it up a couple days ago and it wouldn't boot... i erased everything and tried to reinstall the Os off of the Raspberry pi website. Whenever I turn it on the power butten glows red and does nothing. I think the act is supposed to glow green but mine isn't. Any advice would be great!

I had that happen with a pi zero and the sd card turned out to be bad. May or may not be the case here.

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