I recently was playing around with one of my RopieeeXLs, and rebooted it a few times in a row, unplugged it, plugged it in somewhere else, and whoops, dead. No red or green lights on plug in, across multiple power supplies, all of which were happily powering other RPis.
Thought it could be the thermoelectric fuse, let it rest for a few days. Nothing doing. No lights, just dead. Is there anything I can do, or is it just ejunk? If Pi were $35 not $215 right now I’d accept the waste. But now I’m on https://rpilocator.com/ with auto refresh looking for a couple of units and trying to remember how to deal with RSS feeds so I can avoid enriching middlemen. And I have my Gungnir plugged directly into my MacBook Air’s dock, which has caused all sorts of bad issues with coreaudiod and audio crashes, so this problem is spreading into other unrelated annoyances.
What a hassle. Any suggestions? Anything I can do?
Not yet… but shouldn’t the pi lights come on, even if there is no MicroSD card installed? It’s not like it’s not booting properly, it’s like it’s not even getting power.
I have seen scenarios where the Pi appeared dead in the water, but actually only needing a reimaging of the microSD…
I’d try another card/reimaging first in any case…
Ok, the green light is SD card activity, so if SD card is bad there can be no green light. But red is power, and if there’s no red light there’s no power reaching that light. I’m fairly sure I’ve fried that and I could try with a soldering iron but I’m unlikely to (mostly because I don’t own a soldering iron or a voltmeter with tiny enough probes).
FWIW a quick test of a couple of Pis and both the 3 and 4 show a red light when I plug in power even if there’s no SD card in. I’d still give it a re-flash a go all the same.
I had one of my 3b+ just die once , no idea why either as one day it was working next not. This was powered by gpio pins as it was in use with amp board which still works fine on the nee PI.
