Hi Folks,
I'm hoping for some help with my PI! I purchased and installed a PI 4 (8gb) in Oct 2022, I followed a couple of youtube videos on setup, which for me was hosting a Plex media server, and a couple of shared folders for a home network. It's been great, basically haven't touched it since, it just works. Well, it just worked, past tense. Today, our Plex was showing empty folders. I tried to access the shared drives and they were inaccessible also. I tried pinging the PI - no response. So, I took it out to look at it. My guess is its in a constant reboot cycle. I get a solid red light, power looks good (it does have a properly rated power supply), the green light blinks quickly a couple of times, then goes solid, the fan fires up, for about 20-30secs or so, then the fan stops, the green light turns off, then blinks quickly a couple of times, the fan fires again, and it just keeps doing that over and over.
I took my SD card out and plugged it into my computer and it opened up ok. I tried unhooking the ethernet cable and the external USB harddrive, and booting the PI back up, but, it just goes straight into the cycle above. And now I don't know what to do. I really only have a very basic understanding, having simply followed a couple of youtubes to get this thing going. Would greatly appreciate any help.
thanks,
Matt
I'm hoping for some help with my PI! I purchased and installed a PI 4 (8gb) in Oct 2022, I followed a couple of youtube videos on setup, which for me was hosting a Plex media server, and a couple of shared folders for a home network. It's been great, basically haven't touched it since, it just works. Well, it just worked, past tense. Today, our Plex was showing empty folders. I tried to access the shared drives and they were inaccessible also. I tried pinging the PI - no response. So, I took it out to look at it. My guess is its in a constant reboot cycle. I get a solid red light, power looks good (it does have a properly rated power supply), the green light blinks quickly a couple of times, then goes solid, the fan fires up, for about 20-30secs or so, then the fan stops, the green light turns off, then blinks quickly a couple of times, the fan fires again, and it just keeps doing that over and over.
I took my SD card out and plugged it into my computer and it opened up ok. I tried unhooking the ethernet cable and the external USB harddrive, and booting the PI back up, but, it just goes straight into the cycle above. And now I don't know what to do. I really only have a very basic understanding, having simply followed a couple of youtubes to get this thing going. Would greatly appreciate any help.
thanks,
Matt
Statistics: Posted by mmhendrie — Thu Jun 13, 2024 4:32 am