# Pi Zero not booting, getting hot

**URL:** <https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pi-zero-not-booting-getting-hot/2274>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 19, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pi-zero-not-booting-getting-hot/2274 "2015-12-19T22:12:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jackdesgamble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@jackdesgamble](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/jackdesgamble)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pi-zero-not-booting-getting-hot/2274/1 "2015-12-19T22:12:35Z")

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Just tried to boot my pi zero up for the first time and nothing happens apart from a very hot spot occurring where the red ring is in the picture.  
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[http://imgur.com/E3rwFyq](http://imgur.com/E3rwFyq)

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**Author:** ![steffen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@steffen](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/steffen)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pi-zero-not-booting-getting-hot/2274/2 "2016-04-22T17:03:19Z")

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Hello Jack!

Hmm that doesn’t sound good.  
Just to make sure: There’s no SD card in the SD card Slot on your picture. Did you boot with a working system or a fresh NOOBS card?

You can download NOOBS here:

> **[Download NOOBS for Raspberry Pi](https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/)**
>
> Download NOOBS - our easy operating system installer which contains Raspbian, and contains everything you'll need to get started with your Raspberry Pi.

And here’s a tutorial on how to copy the files to an SD card:  
[https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-raspberry-pi-lesson-1-preparing-and-sd-card-for-your-raspberry-pi/overview](https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-raspberry-pi-lesson-1-preparing-and-sd-card-for-your-raspberry-pi/overview)

Please make sure that you have a working sd card or try one or our [NOOBS cards](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/noobs-8gb-sd-card) from the shop.

Best Regards,  
Steffen

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**Author:** ![tianzhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@tianzhi](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/tianzhi)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pi-zero-not-booting-getting-hot/2274/3 "2017-12-06T02:24:22Z")

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Hi, Have you resolved the problem? I met the same issue too.