I already burned down three of BBB, and now I totally give it up!

On Feb 27, 2015, at 12:26 AM, David Crawford <[email protected]> wrote:

> The power supply I bought is from AdaFruit, which I expected to be well 
> suited to my BBB.
> 
> I haven't yet tried booting from an SD card, so I'll do that this evening.
> 
> On Thursday, February 26, 2015, Gerald Coley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I suggest you switch to a \different power supply. A good one.
> 
> http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Improper_Power_Down....All_Revisions
> 
> Gerald
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:38 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> My Rev C BBB purchased from Adafruit just died on my in the exact same way. I 
> can't get it to boot at all whether connected to USB or 5V power supply.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 2:02:07 PM UTC-5, Mike Traynor wrote:
> Thx.  Will try another PS if I can find one.  Otherwise will have to stick 
> with USB for now.  M.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have seen this before. The USB path and 5VDC paths are different through 
> the PMIC. It is possible that the PMIC has sustained some damage or it could 
> be the 5VDC power supply is not powering up properly, where it has a voltage 
> spike, causing the PMIC to shutdown.
> 
> Past performance of power supplies is no guarantee of future performance. It 
> could be right on the edge.
> 
> Gerald
> 
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Identical problem this morning:  BBB boots fine when powered by USB, but not 
> when powered by a 2.0 mA rated 5.0 V DC power supply (nicked from some other 
> device).  BBB power LED blinks continuously.  This power supply has worked 
> with this BBB in the past.
> 
> Mike.
> 
> 
> On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 8:44:59 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
> I had a similar problem- my power LED would just continue blinking when 
> connected to a 5V power source. This meant there was something wrong. First, 
> I checked if my BBB was still alive. To find that, I connected my board to a 
> computer via USB. Surprisingly, this time power LED  turned on normally. Then 
> to make sure that everything was properly, I ran some program as given in the 
> BB website http://beagleboard.org/getting-started.  I was happy to see, the 
> programs on the website worked just fine on my board. Thus, I was able to 
> conclude that strangely, my BBB board didn't like 5V external power source!
> 
> On Friday, November 22, 2013 at 6:41:41 AM UTC-8, Bert Lindner wrote:
> 
> Just had a 5V powered Beaglebone Black seemingly die on me. First the power 
> led kept blinking, then after removing the (BB Toys CAN) cape the power led 
> would flash just once after applying power. Looking back in previous threads 
> this seemed to mean I killed the board somehow; there was also a GPS module 
> attached to one of the UARTs and a probably power hungry USB wlan stick that 
> I'm trying to get to work, so a power hungry setup.
> 
> I was ready to declare it dead, it remained just flashing once after 
> repeatedly unplugging and reattaching the power supply.
> 
> However I noticed the single power led flash would also happen if I pressed 
> the power button (leaving the 5V plug in). Doing that repeatedly seems to 
> have revived the board, will see if new problems occur. For now it behaves 
> normally.
> 
> Is this expected behaviour?
> 
> Best,
> 
> -Bert
> 
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