(05-12-2016, 08:19 AM)tkaiser Wrote: Unless you successfully burned a working OS image on SD card all you get is a red led lighting forever. Without an OS on the card nothing will happen.Yes.
To be sure yours is DOA or not:
1) download a good OS image and not the crap from the Wiki: http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=376
2) download/upgrade 7-zip (a security issue has been discovered just recently): http://www.7-zip.org
3) uncompress the image and optionally check integrity as outlined in the first link
4) check your SD card and your card reader now. Reasons why and tools you find in issue N°2: http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=514
5) Get Rufus and burn the OS image (ending on .asc): https://rufus.akeo.ie (Rufus has a verify function also)
6) Insert SD card, provide stable 5V/2A (not that easy since Micro USB has been used, see forum link above) and start the board
7) be aware that if your display isn't connected directly (HDMI) and capable of 1080p you won't be able to notice any activity. You would need either a connected Ethernet cable (then leds on the Ethernet jack start to blink 20 seconds after boot) or a powermeter (showing 300-400mA and peaks up to 700mA while booting)
Additionally, after you have, say, longsleeps Xenial image... check to see if you get Ethernet activity, or whether it has obtained an IP address from your dhcp server and then attempt to ssh into it with user:pass ubuntu:ubuntu
