Faulty Raspberry Pi?

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Hi,
I bought a Raspberry Pi 4 Essentials Kit on January 12 2023.

I’m not enjoying its company.
Within a couple of days of successful use, it stopped working.
I’d left the computer running for a while. When I returned to my desk, my screen looked like this…see link. https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/bSE9Nj2tkXMmrXUoNwHkrts7XBIecyeJc3WiKK2L2NU

At first, I thought that it was a faulty SD card, so I bought a replacement.
Everything worked perfectly for about a fortnight, and then the same issue re-appeared.
Again, I bought a replacement SD card…and this time, the problem re-appeared after only about one hour.

I can only now assume that this can’t be a problem with SD cards and can only assume that I have a faulty Raspberry Pi.
I’d value your opinion.

Philip Edwards

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Not sure if this is relevant, but may be worth a look see. I ended up at the network boot screen you posted the image of.
Won’t boot if Keyboard WIFI dongle is plugged in. - Raspberry Pi Forums

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Noted…problem was that the first two SD cards had become unreadable…they wouldn’t even re-format.