# Gameshell Not Booting

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/gameshell-not-booting/5737>\
**Category:** GameShell\
**Created:** [June 11, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/gameshell-not-booting/5737 "2020-06-11T03:45:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![slopes](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/slopes/32/4233_2.png) [@slopes](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/slopes)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/gameshell-not-booting/5737/1 "2020-06-11T03:45:16Z")

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I was trying to install a newer version of the deot image by burning it into the SD card, but when I try booting it back up, it wont even boot. There is a orange LED light when charging, but that is pretty much it. I can only assume that something is wrong with the SD card, but I am not 100% sure what. The only thing I know is happening is that it wont finish verifying? Every time it tries to it fails oddly saying that it completed? (\.\PhysicalDrive1: EIO: i\o error read is the exact error message when hovering over it on the etcher program I am using)  
Hopefully I didnt mess up everything too badly.

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**Author:** ![Joao\_Manoel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Joao\_Manoel](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Joao_Manoel)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/gameshell-not-booting/5737/2 "2020-06-11T08:02:26Z")

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This looks like a SD card problem. Could you try to use another SD card?

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**Author:** ![slopes](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/slopes/32/4233_2.png) [@slopes](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/slopes)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/gameshell-not-booting/5737/3 "2020-06-11T17:55:29Z")

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I could buy another card and see if that works, I will keep you posted if that works or not!

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**Author:** ![Joao\_Manoel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Joao\_Manoel](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Joao_Manoel)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/gameshell-not-booting/5737/4 "2020-06-11T19:01:53Z")

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If you are using Windows, you could try to format the SD card using the SD card official tool and see if it is working well under Windows [https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/](https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/)

If everything is working you can try to reflash the card using Etcher.

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**Author:** ![slopes](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/slopes/32/4233_2.png) [@slopes](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/slopes)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/gameshell-not-booting/5737/5 "2020-06-12T04:52:50Z")

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It is fixed! I thought I formatted the keyboard earlier but this worked! Now I just need to wrap my head around how the file transfer work ;^^

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**Author:** ![Joao\_Manoel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Joao\_Manoel](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Joao_Manoel)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/gameshell-not-booting/5737/6 "2020-06-12T07:46:43Z")

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keyboard??? What worked?

For file transferring you can use SSH with Filezilla

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**Author:** ![slopes](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/slopes/32/4233_2.png) [@slopes](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/slopes)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/gameshell-not-booting/5737/7 "2020-06-20T10:20:16Z")

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omg, i thought i said sd card, what was my brain thinking \*\*;

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**Author:** ![whoisalanjacobs](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/whoisalanjacobs/32/3827_2.png) [@whoisalanjacobs](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/whoisalanjacobs)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/gameshell-not-booting/5737/8 "2020-06-21T17:26:05Z")

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there might be an issue with the balenaEtcher v1.5.99 - [https://forums.balena.io/c/etcher](https://forums.balena.io/c/etcher)  
using my Windows 10 machine works fine, but Macbook fails horribly ☹