On 04/02/18 19:56, RobH wrote:
> On 04/02/18 19:30, David Taylor wrote:
>> On 04/02/2018 17:19, RobH wrote:
>>> As the subject header says, my pi3 is now powering itself off after
>>> around 5 minutes, and is then unuseable.
>>>
>>> I thought there was something amiss with it a couple of weeks ago, as
>>> I posted on here that it was dead or dying.
>>>
>>> It has now gone off after 2 minutes!
>>>
>>> Is there anything I can do or check to find what is wrong with it.
>>
>> Check the power supply.  I found one was giving out over 5.5V which
>> could cause overheating in some climates.  A low voltage wouldn't
>> help, either!
>>
> This time, after first trying  a osmc image which wouldn't boot up, and
> then retrying a raspbian strech image it boots to the desktop, and I can
> now ssh into it.
>
> Puzzling or what?

Not if you know hardware...

how many times in the early days of PC linux would we have a machine
that 'ran windows' but barfed on Linux...

Bus timings and different drivers make a huge difference

I even had one machine that - after a couple of days of investigation -
was shown to turn two bytes in a file, to FFH when the file was read
from a floppy...

...removing the third party video capture card fixed it.




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