Raspberry Pi 4 8 GB not booting with GPIO connected

Hi, my RPi is working perfectly and has been for some time. Recently I started building a weather station and connected a bunch of sensors to the pi. All the sensors were tested with a python program individually and they work. I shut the system down.

The next day, I booted up the pi and it hung with a blank screen and no disk activity for ages. I powered off, disconnected the power leads (5V and 3.3V) and then booted the pi. Everything worked fine. I reconnected the two power leads and the sensors are working again.

Why should the pi refuse to boot with the power leads connected?

Thanks fr your help.

John

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Hey John,

Welcome to the forum!!

Usually a short across the power pins would cause the Pi to turn off. Leaving it on a metal surface will also cause shorts and cause the Pi to not boot.

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