Questions tagged [failure]

This tag should be used to discuss bugs that have caused errors and failures within your Raspberry Pi. These failures can be due to overclocking, applications, and other reasons. Please note your OS before using this tag.

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Defect Raspberry Pi as source of fire

I assume that many of you use the raspberry pi (or another single board computer) as 24/7 server at home, so I'd like to ask a question which I've been discussing recently with a coworker: Is it possible that some kind of hardware defect causes the…
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Broken Pi - plugging in monitor fixed it

I recently flew a mission on a balloon satellite. A raspberry Pi was the core of my project, but unfortunately, at 100 km, the Raspberry Pi failed. I retrieved the satellite and noticed the Pi wouldn't boot. I tried everything. Finally, after…
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Pi randomly dies after few days, stops responding and blinking green LED continuosly

When rasp is under heavier load (eg. copying tb of data over ssh for few hours) it recently started to randomly die without response. syslogs don't tell much. Not overclocked, fan attached. led blinking like…
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Have I been sent a dead Pi?

first post, totally Raspberry newbie. I've just got the Official Starter Kit (3b) from Amazon. I put the Pi in the case, inserted the pre-setup SD, connected HDMI to the television, a keyboard and mouse to the USB, then finally the power and…
John
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Raspberry Pi static IP failed. how can I get dynamic back

My laptop uses wifi, and Pi is connected to router via cable. With the dynamic IP, it worked well with Putty on my windows 7. Then trouble came after I changed the /etc/network/interfaces on putty to obtain a static IP. Now I cannot "talk" to my…
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Pi with MCP3004 both Channel 0 (thermistor) & Channel 1 read 0 when attaching a voltage to Channel 1

Implemented a generic Pi/MCP3004 sketch to read a Thermistor with Channel 0 ... this has been working great for well over 3 years in an unattended mountaintop radio shack (providing remote monitoring of the shack temperature) ... today we added a…
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