Raspberry Pi 3 freezes?

[elgur85]

Hello!

I’ve had my Pi3 for about a week ago, and it freezes a lot.
As soon as I just let it be online, without playing, it freezes.

Can’t ssh it or using connected keyboards or controllers.

Have anyone else experienced this?

[Anonymous]

Can you SSH in and see what temp it’s running at?

I had the same issue with mine but then realised I was using my old config.txt from my Pi 2 which had temp_limit=75

The Pi 3 runs much hotter and after a couple of hours use mine sits around 85 degrees

[elgur85]

Nope, I can’t access it through SSH. I’ve seen it around 55-60, so no high temperature.
Using a newly downloaded Retropie image for the RPi3, so the config.txt is not for my RPi2.

[gamesfan]

Do you have any heatsinks or fans? I use them with my RPI2 as it would freeze in some long gaming sessions. Once I put on the heatsinks and fans the issues went away.

Also the RPI3 requires a beefier powersupply at 2.5amps , maybe your PS isnt giving it enough current and that is causing the lockups.

[neighbourhoodnerd]

I can almost guarantee it’s your power supply. As Gamesfan says, you need 2.5amps.

[Anonymous]

It’s not the power supply. I have the same problem and my power supply is 3.5amp with heatsinks and fan.

[elgur85]

It shouldn’t be the powersupply since I use the official powersupply…

[pohlinger31]

Mine has been freezing as well – seems to be in certain games, especially a few PS1 games. Not sure what the issue is… I also had it freeze in the retropie setup menu, which was very odd.

[elgur85]

I don’t know if the issue is in Retropie (the image) or the Pi itself.
I have other strang issues, like drops in SSH connections, and problems to reboot the Pi, it sais that it’s going to reboot, but nothing happens.

[pi-guy]

I’m having the same issue with ssh, but I’m using wifi and I read somewhere that the built-in wifi driver is having some issues on some OS flavors…maybe this one too. Are you using wifi and if so are you using the onboard wifi or a usb stick?

[robboman]

I’ve been running my RP 3 for days on end, no freezes here.

[pi-guy]

Have your tried the built-in wifi? If so, within 10min I can almost guarantee you’ll lose a ping or more especially if your CPU is busy. Though I did find that having too many devices plugged into the usb port exacerbates the issue, especially if you use a 10′ long usb extension cable like I do. Probably a power thing, my guess is if under med-high CPU load and a few peripherals (w/o external power) are plugged in it starts shutting down power to the wifi before anything else.

I’m working on finding or acquiring a powered usb hub (which I know is kind-of the golden rule with Pi’s) to see if that helps things along.

[nonorius]

Hello,

I have the same issue: https://www.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/regular-freezes-with-raspberry-23/

Sorry to trust several topics with this but I try to find a way to fix this.

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