raspberry pi not booting

[Daniboi]

hi,

 

just brought a raspberry pi and i have installed noobs onto an sd after i have formatted card. i have now inputted the card into the pi and the after market fan i have got powers up but no display comes up. i have no idea what i should do next. the red light is on but not green.

[Guest]

Did you reverse the fan connector? If it's backwards, it won't start up.

[Daniboi]

2 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

Did you reverse the fan connector? If it's backwards, it won't start up.

i mean the fan is spinning

[Daniboi]

and red is facing away from the ports

[mahyar]

what raspberry is it? 

[Daniboi]

1 minute ago, mahyar said:

what raspberry is it? 

4b 2gb

[Kilrah]

Suitable power supply? SD card prepared using offical method?

[mahyar]

did you connect to it via hdmi or ssh?

[Daniboi]

Just now, mahyar said:

did you connect to it via hdmi or ssh?

HDMI

[Daniboi]

i used  the windows quick formatt tool

[mahyar]

try flashing normal raspberry pi os 

[mahyar]

or disconnect the fan?

[Daniboi]

3 minutes ago, mahyar said:

try flashing normal raspberry pi os 

ill try that

[mahyar]

3 minutes ago, Daniboi said:

i used  the windows quick formatt tool

you should use balenaEtcher

[Daniboi]

2 minutes ago, mahyar said:

you should use balenaEtcher

whats that?

[mahyar]

https://www.balena.io/etcher/

[Kilrah]

NOOBS is just a manual file copy to a formatted card. But you need to make sure to format the card as FAT32, and OP likely hasn't done that.

[mahyar]

Just now, Kilrah said:

NOOBS is just a manual file copy to a formatted card. But you need to make sure to format the card as FAT32, and OP likely hasn't done that.

because he didnt use balenaEtcher that would have took care of it

[Kilrah]

You cannot use balenaEtcher with NOOBS. NOOBS is designed for manual copy, it's just a zip with files, not a disk image.

[mahyar]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

You cannot use balenaEtcher with NOOBS. NOOBS is designed for manual copy, it's just a zip with files, not a disk image.

i never used noobs its dumb

 

[Daniboi]

so what should i do?

18 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

You cannot use balenaEtcher with NOOBS. NOOBS is designed for manual copy, it's just a zip with files, not a disk image.

17 minutes ago, mahyar said:

i never used noobs its dumb

 

 

 

[mahyar]

download raspberry pi os (raspbian) flash to your sd card using balenaEtcher

[Daniboi]

1 minute ago, mahyar said:

download raspberry pi os (raspbian) flash to your sd card using balenaEtcher

alright thanks

[Daniboi]

1 hour ago, mahyar said:

download raspberry pi os (raspbian) flash to your sd card using balenaEtcher

so i just did that and the green light breifly came on but then no display happened

 

[steelo]

10 minutes ago, Daniboi said:

so i just did that and the green light breifly came on but then no display happened

 

The first boot sometimes takes a minute or so to initialize the file system and show the display. Try booting again and come back in 5 mins