Pinebook Pro not booting
01-01-2020, 10:21 AM
TL-DR:
No matter what medium is inserted, my PBP does not turn on.
Yesterday, when my PBP arrived, I was trying to install Manjaro on it. Because I only had an 8 GB microSD card around, I put the Manjaro installer on it, which contains an archive of an image of a working Manjaro install. That image is too big to fit on the microSD-card next to the archive. So while having booted the installer SD-card, I created a new partition table (GPT) on the eMMC-Disk (mmcblk2) and created one single ext4 partition, where I moved the archive, extracted it and copied the Image back to the microSD-card. To continue with the installation, I tried to reboot the PBP while still having the SD-card inserted, but sadly had to see, that my PBP would not turn on anymore.
What I have tried (and basically all combinations):
* Pulling the battery plug and putting it back in
* Pressing the reset button
* Booting it with a known-good microSD-card (and without one)
* Booting it with eMMC enabled / disabled
* Booting it with the eMMC-Module removed
* Booting it with and without the power adapter attached
What I noticed doing that:
* The Power LED does not turn on (which makes sense, because it's software controlled, as a user on the IRC pointed out)
* The Screen stays blank (backlight does not turn on)
* No Output on the serial console (Controlled by Linux)
* No Coil whine at all
* (I am not sure about this) the SoC felt slightly warmer than the rest of the device
I have asked in the IRC for help. Another user seems to have the same problem, their PBP was also in the same batch as mine (2019-12-24, ISO)
As I do not have much money (I am a student) and bought this laptop as my daily driver, I am very, very hesitant to do any hardware measurements / modifications as I am not especially talented doing that and can't risk this laptop.
Has anyone else seen this before or even recovered a PBP from this state?
I would be very glad to hear from that.
Greetings, Waweic
No matter what medium is inserted, my PBP does not turn on.
Yesterday, when my PBP arrived, I was trying to install Manjaro on it. Because I only had an 8 GB microSD card around, I put the Manjaro installer on it, which contains an archive of an image of a working Manjaro install. That image is too big to fit on the microSD-card next to the archive. So while having booted the installer SD-card, I created a new partition table (GPT) on the eMMC-Disk (mmcblk2) and created one single ext4 partition, where I moved the archive, extracted it and copied the Image back to the microSD-card. To continue with the installation, I tried to reboot the PBP while still having the SD-card inserted, but sadly had to see, that my PBP would not turn on anymore.
What I have tried (and basically all combinations):
* Pulling the battery plug and putting it back in
* Pressing the reset button
* Booting it with a known-good microSD-card (and without one)
* Booting it with eMMC enabled / disabled
* Booting it with the eMMC-Module removed
* Booting it with and without the power adapter attached
What I noticed doing that:
* The Power LED does not turn on (which makes sense, because it's software controlled, as a user on the IRC pointed out)
* The Screen stays blank (backlight does not turn on)
* No Output on the serial console (Controlled by Linux)
* No Coil whine at all
* (I am not sure about this) the SoC felt slightly warmer than the rest of the device
I have asked in the IRC for help. Another user seems to have the same problem, their PBP was also in the same batch as mine (2019-12-24, ISO)
As I do not have much money (I am a student) and bought this laptop as my daily driver, I am very, very hesitant to do any hardware measurements / modifications as I am not especially talented doing that and can't risk this laptop.
Has anyone else seen this before or even recovered a PBP from this state?
I would be very glad to hear from that.
Greetings, Waweic