01-21-2020, 11:15 AM
(01-21-2020, 07:34 AM)bkepley Wrote:(10-31-2019, 01:52 PM)codebreaker Wrote: I just received my Pinebook Pro. I opened the box, and hit the power button, but nothing happens. I plugged the charger in, and I see a tiny LED near the barrel connector that is red, but then it turns off after about a minute. No other lights come on, and after a half hour of being plugged into the charger, the unit still won't power on. Any suggestions?
For me the MMC card was completely out of the socket. If I shook the computer I could hear it rattling around.
No power light either means no firmware can be loaded from eMMC *or* something prevents the system turning on at all. However with no hardware power LED it can be difficult to tell the difference.
Getting the back off (as documented in the wiki) and eyeballing the eMMC card is worth a go.
If you'd rather not disassemble it just yet you could also try writing a boot image to an SD card and trying booting from that; if the eMMC is not working for any reason then the machine will fall back to loading firmware from SD card instead.
One thing to be careful of. Since on and off states are, until the firmware is loaded, pretty much indistinguishable it is very important to ensure the machine really if off before trying to get it to boot from SD card. The power key works like one on most Android phones... hold it down for 15 seconds or so and you will get a hard power off... then the next press should turn it back on.