05-03-2016, 12:22 PM
(05-03-2016, 12:10 PM)rahlquist Wrote: The best thing you could do at this point is acquire a USB to TTL cable. You would then hook this to the appropriate pins on the board while booting and monitor the process from another computer. This would give you an idea what the issue is.
The most common issues are power, bad SD image, and incompatible displays. That said there have clearly been some dead units.
A quick and dirty function test is to install a linux image on the SD use a minimal one like http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=376 boot the board and then after 20 minutes hook up ethernet cable. If you get blinking lights, the board isnt likley dead, probably one of the aforementioned display issues. I note you stats the Acer is a 1080p screen does it exactly support 1080p@60hz?
It does support 1080p60, yes. Is the board incapable of other display output? That's a serious design flaw that the competing boards don't have.
I've tried several SD cards, imaging from windows and from linux and mac, and I've tried remix, android, and linux. On the board I get a reddish light when I connect power, but nothing else. I went through a number of steps from the forum and from other sites before calling it dead. I'm hoping for a response from Pine rather than from the community, which is why I tried email first. I understand that things are busy and that I'll have to wait for that.
I didn't have anything to connect the ethernet to handy so that didn't occur to me in my testing, I'll try that tonight, and I'll try any other novel solutions, but I've been working in IT for a very long time, so I've tried the usual suspects (power, swapping everything that could be swapped, etc)