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Clusterboard does not even turn on? - poVoq - 08-11-2020
So I finally found the time to look into the Clusterboard I got a while back, but strangely enough I can't even get it to turn on
I only have ATX power supply for now (tried two different ones) and the little green light on the Sophine modules turns on when I connected it.
However everything else stays dark.
When I short circuit the two pins in the power switch connector as seen on this pictures:
https://imgur.com/gallery/u9dDsXS
the red power light next to the ATX connector shortly flashes but that's it. Only when I continously connect the two pins of the power switch the lights of the Clusterboard come to life and it seems to cycle through some test program or so, but as soon as the power switch is not short circuted everything goes black again.
I also got a single 15W10ohmJ resistor block and I tried to connect it both to the 3.3V and the 12V holes as seen in the link above, but other than that it gets extremely hot on the 12V, there is no difference in the behaviour of the cluster board.
Did I already accidentially break it with my clueless tinkering?
Edit: for testing I only connected 1 or 2 modules with the emmc and a sd card, so I don't think the problem is what others have described with all 7 modules connected.
RE: Clusterboard does not even turn on? - tllim - 08-13-2020
(08-11-2020, 02:50 PM)poVoq Wrote: So I finally found the time to look into the Clusterboard I got a while back, but strangely enough I can't even get it to turn on
I only have ATX power supply for now (tried two different ones) and the little green light on the Sophine modules turns on when I connected it.
However everything else stays dark.
When I short circuit the two pins in the power switch connector as seen on this pictures:
https://imgur.com/gallery/u9dDsXS
the red power light next to the ATX connector shortly flashes but that's it. Only when I continously connect the two pins of the power switch the lights of the Clusterboard come to life and it seems to cycle through some test program or so, but as soon as the power switch is not short circuted everything goes black again.
I also got a single 15W10ohmJ resistor block and I tried to connect it both to the 3.3V and the 12V holes as seen in the link above, but other than that it gets extremely hot on the 12V, there is no difference in the behaviour of the cluster board.
Did I already accidentially break it with my clueless tinkering?
Edit: for testing I only connected 1 or 2 modules with the emmc and a sd card, so I don't think the problem is what others have described with all 7 modules connected.
As I understanding, the power switch needs to always "on" for ATX power supply continue to operate.
RE: Clusterboard does not even turn on? - poVoq - 08-14-2020
Ah, that would explain that. So not like on normal x86 boards where you just need to trigger it shortly and it starts?
How about non ATX power supplies? Those do not need need the power switch at all?
Ok, but after making a small permanent connection of the power switch it still doesn't seem to boot properly.
then I get the red power light and a circling pattern of green and yellow lights near the sopine modules slots. I let it run for quite some time but it doesn't change and it also doesn't look like it is booting (sorry I don't have the serial console to check).
RE: Clusterboard does not even turn on? - poVoq - 08-15-2020
Ok, got it to work now. Seems like the problem was a faulty SD card. Now I just need to figure out why my emmc doesn't work either.