On 05/02/18 13:06, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> In article , 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.
>
> It's not possible for a Pi to power off. It simply doesn't have the
> hardware support for it.
>
> However it can crash and become unresponsive. So next time it happens
> check the power (red) LED. However this LED is under software control
> and will go off if the voltage is too low.
>
> If you have a screen connected then you'll see a yellow "lightning bolt" icon
> appear if the power is too low (and a red thermometer icon if it's too hot)
>
> 99% of issues like this is the power supply. Change it. Try another,
> and if you have one, get your multimeter out and measure it when
> it's powering a Pi.
>
> Gordon
>


Yes, I concur with you about power supplies. When it did go off the red
led still stayed on, which kind of puzzled me.
Anyway after 3rd time lucky with 2 different images, OSMC and Raspbian
stretch, it seems to be running fine now.

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