I GIVE UP

[pfeerick]

I have TRULY given up and will be taking a hammer to it later. I might even record that.

Don't forget to give us the link!

Seriously though, if you have checked through things like:

• power connection (using a decent microSD cable, or even direct connection to the GPIO pins)
  
• different HDMI monitors/TVs or cables, or a serial console cable / serial terminal connection
  
• different brand microSDs and verified they are being written properly (i.e. Samsung EVO / Etcher)
  

and it still didn't work, you probably have a faulty unit. If it was identified as being one, you should have been able to get a refund or replacement for it. However, your only forum thread from a little over a year ago suggests that it did initially work, and then when you revisited it you weren't able to get it working again, so perhaps there's something more to the story than what I'm seeing? I'm guessing since you mention replies to your posts you tried to get help on the IRC channel also?