Re: RetroStone not booting/crashing/freezing - Hardware issue - Please post here.
Posted: Mon 26 Nov 2018 04:18
Hello. First off, I want to say that I love the RetroStone when it works. It is so much fun. Quite frustrating when it doesn't work, though, which is why I'm here.
I had some issues with it from the start, but it seemed to be more of a software/operating system problem and the folks over at the retrorangepi forum helped me getting that straightened out. But even after I got the retrorangepi boot problem fixed, I was probably still only at about a 50-60% success rate on getting past the blue/white screen. Once I was past it, it would boot fine almost every time, but I would often have to power it off an on again a few times just to get it past the blue/white screen.
Now the issue is that it NEVER gets past the blue/white screen. And I've probably powered it on and off at least 50 times by now, not a single time has it gotten past the blue/white screen and I've let it sit for several minutes. On the very first start up today (when the problem first started), it did get past the blue/white screen but it came up with an error that there were no games installed and it froze, so I had to hard power it down. Ever since then, it's never gotten past the blue/white screen. I tried booting it without the sim card installed, just to see what would happen, and it still just stayed on the blue/white screen. I did see the other thread about the resistor soldering, and I wasn't entirely sure if this was the same thing or not, so I figured I'd post here first.
Here are my survey answers:
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. No
6. Etcher
7. Yes
8. No
9. Yes
10. RetrOrangePi_4.2_FULL_Armbian_5.59_Retrostone_Debian_jessie_default_3.4.113_desktop-1
11. I try to. Unless it gets frozen and I have no other option.
12. Not since this issue started, as it never even makes it to the RetrOrangePi screen.
13. No, but it doesn't seem to be an SD card problem since it does it whether or not it has an SD card installed
13b. Also no, for the same reason.
14. Can't even make it to that point.
15. Seems to be a hardware problem, since it will never go past the blue/white screen.
16. Backer number 1475
Thanks in advance for your help!
I had some issues with it from the start, but it seemed to be more of a software/operating system problem and the folks over at the retrorangepi forum helped me getting that straightened out. But even after I got the retrorangepi boot problem fixed, I was probably still only at about a 50-60% success rate on getting past the blue/white screen. Once I was past it, it would boot fine almost every time, but I would often have to power it off an on again a few times just to get it past the blue/white screen.
Now the issue is that it NEVER gets past the blue/white screen. And I've probably powered it on and off at least 50 times by now, not a single time has it gotten past the blue/white screen and I've let it sit for several minutes. On the very first start up today (when the problem first started), it did get past the blue/white screen but it came up with an error that there were no games installed and it froze, so I had to hard power it down. Ever since then, it's never gotten past the blue/white screen. I tried booting it without the sim card installed, just to see what would happen, and it still just stayed on the blue/white screen. I did see the other thread about the resistor soldering, and I wasn't entirely sure if this was the same thing or not, so I figured I'd post here first.
Here are my survey answers:
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. No
6. Etcher
7. Yes
8. No
9. Yes
10. RetrOrangePi_4.2_FULL_Armbian_5.59_Retrostone_Debian_jessie_default_3.4.113_desktop-1
11. I try to. Unless it gets frozen and I have no other option.
12. Not since this issue started, as it never even makes it to the RetrOrangePi screen.
13. No, but it doesn't seem to be an SD card problem since it does it whether or not it has an SD card installed
13b. Also no, for the same reason.
14. Can't even make it to that point.
15. Seems to be a hardware problem, since it will never go past the blue/white screen.
16. Backer number 1475
Thanks in advance for your help!