I brought a second hand Tinker Board for a project I'm working on. It apparently had not been used and was practically new.
But it won't boot.
The red light goes on when I give it power. I'm powering it with a power bank outputting 5VA1.
I'm using a 16GB SanDisk Ultra Micro SD card with Tinker OS on it.
When I plug it into a TV though HDMI, my TV always says no signal.
I've tried using several monitors and HDMI cables.
I guess it's looking like my Tinker Board is broken, but I was wondering if there's anything I might be missing or any tips on getting it to work.
(12-02-2018, 09:21 PM)chicken0me Wrote: [ -> ]I brought a second hand Tinker Board for a project I'm working on. It apparently had not been used and was practically new.
But it won't boot.
The red light goes on when I give it power. I'm powering it with a power bank outputting 5VA1.
I'm using a 16GB SanDisk Ultra Micro SD card with Tinker OS on it.
When I plug it into a TV though HDMI, my TV always says no signal.
I've tried using several monitors and HDMI cables.
I guess it's looking like my Tinker Board is broken, but I was wondering if there's anything I might be missing or any tips on getting it to work.
If you are using a 1 amp supply , this will not be enough try a 2 amp or more supply
(12-02-2018, 09:38 PM)Z80 Wrote: [ -> ] (12-02-2018, 09:21 PM)chicken0me Wrote: [ -> ]I brought a second hand Tinker Board for a project I'm working on. It apparently had not been used and was practically new.
But it won't boot.
The red light goes on when I give it power. I'm powering it with a power bank outputting 5VA1.
I'm using a 16GB SanDisk Ultra Micro SD card with Tinker OS on it.
When I plug it into a TV though HDMI, my TV always says no signal.
I've tried using several monitors and HDMI cables.
I guess it's looking like my Tinker Board is broken, but I was wondering if there's anything I might be missing or any tips on getting it to work.
If you are using a 1 amp supply , this will not be enough try a 2 amp or more supply
I just tried booting it from a 2.4A supply, still not working. But I noticed that if I plug a mouse into it, it's red laser light doesn't come on.
But if I plug a raspberry pi touch screen monitor into it, the monitor has power and and turns on(And says no signal).
For troubleshooting it may be necessary to use a
USB-RS232 adapter [
attachment=346] plugged on the UART3 for linaro, whereas Armbian prefers the UART2.
With that adapter you'll see what is going on during boot time. Perhaps it might be even better to disable "
quiet" from the kernel line. One more option is to log into TB even when GUI won't work.