Thanks a lot guys , I just discovered one of my supposedly fried Beaglebone Black works after pressing power button and reset button in cycles for few minutes after reading this post. Although it had stopped while i was doing something on it and never booted up after.
Now going to try the same on another Beaglebone Black that is also fried up. Hope it works. On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:49:57 PM UTC+5:30, Jason Stapels wrote: > > Hi all, > > Just wanted to share my experience with my dead BBB. It's my first > experience with the Beagle line so it's possible I did something wrong > somewhere so I thought it would be a good idea to share my experiences in > case other newb's read this. Feel free to skip to the bottom for the > symptoms. > > -- Begin Background Info -- > > I was lucky enough to get my BBB almost right away from Digikey. I > immediately installed the drivers on my Mac and started playing around with > it the first night. Unfortunately, the second night I couldn't get my Mac > to allocate an IP address through the USB to talk to it so I thought maybe > I shouldn't have skipped that "update software" step. So next I downloaded > the latest "flash eMMC" image, wrote it to an SD card and then went through > the upgrade process. > > Here's where things went a little South. After the first attempt the USR > lights eventually went solid (presumably indicating the flashing process > was finished) but when I rebooted it without the SD card, the power light > would come on but it wouldn't boot. After a couple repower attempts I > decided to flash it again. This time, at some point during the flash > process, the board seemed to just lose power (all the LEDs were off). > Attempts to power the board resulted in the same as before, power light > comes on but no booting. > > So, my assumption was I messed up the SD card image. I downloaded/reimaged > the SD card again, went through the flash process and this time it seemed > to finish. Now when I powered on the board it appeared to boot up. However, > I still couldn't get it to pick up an IP address from the Mac (after > reinstalling both drivers and a couple reboots). I read somewhere that > someone had a similar issue and an update to Angstrom solved it. > > This time I plugged the board into my linux box and I was able to access > the running linux image (yay!). I immediately SSH'd in, and went through > the Angstrom upgrade (opkg update; opkg upgrade). The upgrade took awhile > and seemed to have a few issues with the new kernel modules > (/lib/modules/blah didn't exist). I figured it was just a warning and after > the upgrade finished I unplugged the board and plugged it back into my > Mac... > > -- End Background Info -- > > The power light came on... the USR lights all went solid for a couple > seconds... and then the board died. I can no longer seem to power the board > up at all. I've tried multiple USB cables, multiple USB ports on multiple > machines, and even tried the DC jack with a 5v/2.2A supply. :( I submitted > an RMA (although my board doesn't seem to have a serial number) because I > don't think I did anything wrong, but I'm a very sad panda regardless. > > Any ideas? Anything I should check? > > ~ Jason > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
