Questions tagged [rip]

This tag is intended to highlight a question about something that resulted in a "bricked" or damaged Pi hardware, so that others might be made aware of something that is not good to do with theirs.

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Possible dead Raspberry Pi 1 B

My first ever owned Raspberry Pi suddenly died yesterday. I had it working non-stop for like a month until last Friday (I had to hot unplug it). Since I did a lot of troubleshooting in the previous ...
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rPi 3b only boots with 5v power through the 3.3v GPIO

I'm in need of some explanation as my Pi is acting weird (to my limited knowledge at least) It will only boot when i suply it with 5v/GND through the 3.3/GND GPIOs. The pi boots when i connect 5v ...
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Accidentally shorted my Pi

I made a little "montage" where I could control LEDs with my Pi and accidentally shorted the 5 V with a 12 V 7 A. Now, the Pi won't even start, no red LED or anything. Is it broken or is there a way ...
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I think I've shorted my Raspberry Pi using a Picoborg, but I'm not sure how? Help?

So I've been trying to work out how to control a Furby Boom (2013) from a Raspberry Pi Zero W and was working on connecting the Furby's DC motor to the Pi through a Picoborg. I then ran one of the ...
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Is my pi4 dead and How to determine what exactly happened?

Apparently, I somehow bricked my new pi4. When I plug it in, the red (power) LED is working, but the green one (boot) is not. To be exact: when everything, including the SD card is taken out the pi, ...
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Raspberry Pi Zero W v1.1 fried

I tried all things described on this page, but to no avail. I was using it with the adafruit's LCD TFT display, when it got really hot and I unplugged it. When it cooled, it didn't turn on anymore. I ...
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Tiano Core UEFI - Pi 3B+ gone bad?

I came across this project on github and I decided to give it a try. I copied the files over to my Raspberry Pi 3B+, put the sd card in, powered it up and the rainbow logo appeared, followed by a ...
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