May I ask a question here regarding my pi?

@AndrewL. Ask away!

@AndrewL. sounds as if it could be on topic ;)

My pi won't boot up correctly even though it did yesterday. No GUI. I've tried going into recovery, just shows GUI for a split second and reboots. Could it be due to the red indicator in the corner of the screen when it boots up?

Another thing to note is I started using a t-cobbler although it doesn't seem to effect anything when I unplug it from the pins.

@AndrewL. If you have anything attached to the cobbler, be very careful that the ribbon cable attaching it is the right way round. There are about a dozen questions in which people have gotten it back to front. It's easier than you'd think.

Hmm, I'll try another orientation

@goobering another thing, my cobbler's pins aren't going down all the way into the breadboard, will there be any problems

It boots with OKs and then monitor goes into power save mode

Is it possible that my CPU is overheating? The heatsink just burned me and I think the red indicator may be temperature

@AndrewL. Eek. It's not great that the heatsink's that hot - the Pi should go into thermal throttling between 80 and 85 degrees C. If it's much hotter than that you may have a hardware problem.

Hmm. Completed disconnected the cobbler and it booted

Heh.

Weird. The cobbler worked earlier today.

Maybe try it a couple more times over the next 20 minutes or so to rule out other problems.

(The Pi, not the cobbler)

107.0C... There's definitely a problem

Ouch. Toasty.

It's just rising.... Let me shut it down and let it cool

It was sitting at 46C idle earlier today, and I even had a 5v fan running off of it...

As with most sophisticated computing devices, being able to boil soup on it is somewhat undesirable.

Maybe give it a wee rest, let it cool to ambient.

Unplug everything non-essential.

Hmm, I guess the cobbler has some problems

Aye, could be - few suggestions here.

I've shut it down. It kept on rising with it on

Thanks!

No worries. I'm sure there are another few cobbler questions knocking about. 2 minutes and I'll have a quick look.

@AndrewL. Long 2 minutes, sorry!. Sleep got in the way. I took a look through the existing cobbler-related questions, but didn't reach anything in the way of a firm conclusion. There are several incidences of the ribbon cable being back-to-front, but there's not much else to go wrong with it. I think the most likely explanations are either that your Pi spontaneously developed a fault (does happen, albeit rarely), or that something plugged into the cobbler caused some damage.

In either case, you should let it rest and try again with the bare minimum of peripherals plugged in. There's not much user-servicable hardware on a Pi - if it works then great, and if not then it's likely new Pi time I'm afraid.

@goobering Hey man, no worries! Thank you for all the help! It seems to b working for thhe most part at this point, thanks so much!

Ugh, it's still 100C Idle, not sure what to do

I just got the RPi 3B a few days ago..

Did I read that right?

100C

boy, that's too much

C and F is pretty close together on a keyboard.

100°F is nothin

;)

100C

Yeah, exactly. Sounds much more viable.

C it is.

I'm not sure why, it's usually 45C idle

Dude, what is up with your Pi?

But yesterday it went haywire, and the temp indicator is completely red

even at 1% load

I plugged a t-cobbler in yesterday and it just skyrocketed

What happens when you unplug the cobbler?

Still says that way

It usually reboots continuously because of the temps

oh boy.

I don't have money to buy a new one. I just got this one last week

Did you hear any pop or smell anything when you first plugged in your cobbler?

Nope

It worked the first time I plugged it in

When did the excessive temp happen?

I might've accidentally plugged it in the wrong way the second time, would that cause it?

an hour after plugging in? immediately?

Yeah, it's possible that that can cause it.

Well, I've waited a day now and rebooted it. Temps are still there

Removed everything with just the bare minimum

Was there anything connected to the cobbler when you plugged it in the wrong way?

Yesterday the GUI didn't even show because of temps. It's sitting around 97C idle when I turn it on now, I really need a solution

Oh there was

But does the Pi boot if you can get the temperature under control?

It boots correctly

But it's extremely hot

Burns to the touch (the heatsink)

Can you check if all of the GPIO pins work?

They work

My cobbler works fine

All of them?

Yeah

Wow. That's pretty weird.

Have you tried re-flashing your SD card?

Or use another card altogether?

Hmm, haven't tried that but getting into recovery mode is extremely hard

It'll sometimes just reboot

Have you checked the error logs? dmesg is a good place to start.

Ok

alright, do it.

If you can, copy the /var/log/kern.log file to somewhere and check that.

Or upload it somewhere. Pastebin might work.

When I boot up, everything is OK by the looks of it, and the red temp indicator only shows up when I get to the GUI, versus when I saw it right when it booted up like yesterday

Ok

and keep the temperature under control while doing that. You probably don't want to worsen the situation.

find a fan or air conditioner or something.

I have one running

Right now, we're trying to check if it's software-related.

But I'm very sure your hardware is... f*cked.

I just got it :(

You can probably send it in for warranty.

"It was like this when it arrived."

kern.log is too large for pastebin

F*ck, it restarted.

Copy it to your PC first.

Ok

Just heard a click and it rebooted..

Ooooh. Damn.

Doesn't get past boot. It's too hot, have to wait

It's the hardware.

Welp. I got the Pi as a kit as a gift

Not sure if there's warranty

Something probably burned out in the SoC.

I'll try to cool it down

I suggest talking to the person that gave you that. They should be able to have it exchanged.

If, at the slimmest chance, your Pi suddenly recovered, I wouldn't trust it. Too much of a fire hazard.

yeah

I'm really bummed

Pretty sure it was the cobbler

It was working fine for a week

Then you said you plugged it in the wrong way.

My condolences.

I got the log

It's just great when ubuntu says 'Desktop' is not responding

@PandaLion98 I've got the log, do you want to see it or no?

Yeah, I can check it out.

I want to check it out.

Any file uploader you know of?

Is it really that big?

Yeah

1.6 MB

It's the kern.log

Oh, it's not that big. Mmkay.

zippyshare.com is a good choice.

Ok

Here's the file

That's a weird date, may 10?

Yup. May 10.

Probably didn't set the date up correctly

I didn't get this until July 20th-ish

I'm pretty sure those were Raspberry Pi Foundation's logs.

Ugh

Or probably wrong date.

I'm pretty sure the pi is a goner

Anyways, as far as I can see, the software part is clean except for some possible corruption (probably because of frequent reboots)

Yeah

Did you fiddle with overclocking?

Well, I guess I need a miracle at this point

Nope

Yeah, you seriously need a miracle.

Thanks for the time!

If you're feeling down, try watching this video of a sleeping hummingbird.

And think about the fact that Jupiter doesn't orbit the Sun.

Thanks ;)

Folks, what's the clock frequency in the RPi compute module? I'm looking at the schematic, but I can't seem to find the oscillator. This is with EMC in mind.

Nevermind. I see the 19.2 MHz xtal now. (If it were a snake, it would have bit me.)