Pi zero w install Raspbian fails

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Hi,

Can someone help me please?
I am new to Raspberry Pi, but have experience in linux.
I recently purchased 2 Raspberry Pis.
A zero w about 2 weeks ago and a B 3+ this week.
So far I had no luck setting up zero w.
I downloaded NOOB from web site and tried installing Raspbian a few times which always stopped in the middle and did not progress.
It hangs randomly between 50% ~ 70% progress.
On the other hand, 3 B+ just worked fine in the first try.

I even tried install raspbian from 3B+ and plugged the micro sd into zero w.
It worked for about 10 minutes until it stopped and did not respond. - desktop was on screen but could mouse or keyboard did not respond.
In the booting console window I could see a fail message.
That message scrolled up quickly but it was something similar to this.
Fatal, loading kernel failed.
Is there any suggestion I can try?

Thanks
Sam.

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Hey Sam,
Have you tried burning a fresh Raspbian image directly? The Pi Foundation have a guide on how to burn it with etcher.

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Hi Clinton,

Thank you for the head up.
I will give a go with this.

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Hi Clinton,

It installed the raspbian okay and didn’t die until I configure all ssh and vnc connection.
It has been the best result so far.
Thank you for your help.

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Did you enable the camera as well when turning on SSH and others? And have you tried turning them off one at a time to see if it is a particular one?

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Hi Clinton,

Probably my wording was not quite clear.
It didn’t die yet.
So it’s all good so far.
I am not going to do much more with it for now, because I am going to play with 3 B+ first.

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