Getting beyond frustrated. Pine64 1GB RAM/GigEth (Holiday Pine) - board arrived from China in a padded mailer inside the padded mailer was a cardboard box, branded with Pine64, which was a bit crunched up.
I've been through, like others, multiple micro SD cards, TypeA to Micro USB cables, and so many power supplies it is silly (iPad charger that delivers 2.4A @ 5VDC - I even load tested it!, an Anker 5-port USB charging station that can do 2.4A per port, a supply that works fine with my RaspI 2, it goes on and on, ending at a bench power supply calibrated and dialed into 5VDC and capable of delivering somewhere in the neighborhood of 15A @ 5VDC single-rail. O-scope shows no notable ripple.).
MicroSD's - I've tried big (32/64GB), small (4/8gb), cheap, expensive (SanDisk, Lexar), every OS image released burned as prescribed in Startup formatting normal first, and none inserted at all.
In every case, all I get is a red power LED (why they chose red, I will never know - these days one expects red to be associated with a fault, or activity). HDMI 1080p TV, HDMI dell monitor, both known good, short HDMI cables, long HDMI cables, premium HDMI cables... I never even get HDMI sync.
What am I missing? Otherwise, how can I kick this piece back to PINE and get a replacement or refund?
I've been through, like others, multiple micro SD cards, TypeA to Micro USB cables, and so many power supplies it is silly (iPad charger that delivers 2.4A @ 5VDC - I even load tested it!, an Anker 5-port USB charging station that can do 2.4A per port, a supply that works fine with my RaspI 2, it goes on and on, ending at a bench power supply calibrated and dialed into 5VDC and capable of delivering somewhere in the neighborhood of 15A @ 5VDC single-rail. O-scope shows no notable ripple.).
MicroSD's - I've tried big (32/64GB), small (4/8gb), cheap, expensive (SanDisk, Lexar), every OS image released burned as prescribed in Startup formatting normal first, and none inserted at all.
In every case, all I get is a red power LED (why they chose red, I will never know - these days one expects red to be associated with a fault, or activity). HDMI 1080p TV, HDMI dell monitor, both known good, short HDMI cables, long HDMI cables, premium HDMI cables... I never even get HDMI sync.
What am I missing? Otherwise, how can I kick this piece back to PINE and get a replacement or refund?
