The 6 most common reasons why Pine64 won't boot

[MarkHaysHarris777]

It's still not booting regularly. More then half of the time I get the white stripe screen. I spend way too much money on this board for it not to function. Appreciate if one of the moderators or experts (MarkHaysHarris777?) of Pine64 can give some definitive tips and suggestions to rule out other issues. When it runs it performs better on the Samsung Evo card. However when playing around with it, e.g. connecting to WiFi, browsing, testing the occasional app. It freezes for a while or indefinitely and then the white-striped screen comes. Rebooting does not resolve the issue at all then. Appreciate the help here.

This sounds like the board is malfunctioning. Please confirm, are the white stripes on the LCD 7" display, or are the white stripes on the hdmi display ? 

Are the stripes in the 'same' position horizontally?  (or do they move around from boot to boot)

Can you try another pine board with the same display?  Do the stripes follow the board, or are they persistent on the display board ?

Vertical stripes are usually indicative of a bad display board, interface connector, or bad ribbon. More often the not the stripes are the result of having a defect in the display itself; not on the computer board producing the image !

I of course cannot reproduce your difficulties; although, I am sorry.  You might like to open a support ticket and perhaps your board can be replaced; however, it would be nice if you can narrow down whether the striping is the display proper, or the pine board-- some further diagnostics will be helpful.

On LCD:
1. I power up
2. Boot screen appears: A64 android....
3. 2nd screen appears
4. then the screen gives the vertical white-black stripes

So what to do... I can again retry to burn the image?

Chris

Yes, reburn the image.

... try using the 'Etcher' program.

Something else you might try is to zero partition your SD card with gparted, or fdisk; that is, remove all existing partitions on the card and re-write the partition table back out to the card... then try writing the image to the card with the 'Etcher' program,  or with dd;  either from a mac or gnu+linux.

This is the thing I find most frustrating about the pine community. Some individuals have inexorable difficulty with the burn process;  which makes no sense whatsoever. It either works or it doesn't and it has NEVER failed for me.... not even once.  not on hundreds of cards and multiple SBC(s) including three pine boards and a couple of dozen Raspberry PI(s).   (I just don't understand why this is so difficult for people)