In short. My PI5 does not boot. I'm aware that when it does not have a SD card it should boot with an error message, mine doesn't. The LED doesn't flash in any particular sequence. When it tries to boot first the LED turns green but after a few seconds it shuts down (LED turns red).
Some details: For a while my PI worked fine with an off brand power supply, since the official one was out of stock. It was rated for the 5A that it required. But for a while (for like a month or two) I didn't use the PI since I didn't need it for the time. Right when I needed it, it didn't boot. At the time I couldn't find anything other than the issue for insufficient voltage current supply. Since at the time the power supply I had, previously worked I assumed that the board was simply dead. I tried everything, like changing the micro SD card or changing the HDMI cable and didn't have any luck
At the time I needed another PI, so I got a PI4 and every of my accessories worked with it. To this day it still works fine.
So fast-forward to two weeks ago, I tried to use a battery bank hat I got for my PI4, on my PI5, and surprisingly, it worked, kinda. The PI5 could now display an output but it couldn't pass the rainbow screen. I imagine that the batteries were already on bad conditions since it has already been a year since I used them, so the EEPROM got corrupted since I now got the LED pattern for it. I followed the solutions for EEPROM recovery and it worked, now it got back to the previous behavior of immediately shutting off.
Today I received an official PI5 power supply, but still the same error. I'm posting this here in case anybody knows anything, so for now I assume it is a lost cause. I forgot to mention that I already read the Sticky (viewtopic.php?t=58151) talking about any solutions. The only thing I haven't tried is to change the SD card for an 8GB, but since I got no display even without an SD I'm out of ideas.
Note: As of writing this I reread the post, so no blink might mean the EEPROM memory issue so I might got that wrong, but the first time I tried to fix that I got another pattern for that issue, since I didn't resolved it with the instructions of that post.
Thanks in advance
Some details: For a while my PI worked fine with an off brand power supply, since the official one was out of stock. It was rated for the 5A that it required. But for a while (for like a month or two) I didn't use the PI since I didn't need it for the time. Right when I needed it, it didn't boot. At the time I couldn't find anything other than the issue for insufficient voltage current supply. Since at the time the power supply I had, previously worked I assumed that the board was simply dead. I tried everything, like changing the micro SD card or changing the HDMI cable and didn't have any luck
At the time I needed another PI, so I got a PI4 and every of my accessories worked with it. To this day it still works fine.
So fast-forward to two weeks ago, I tried to use a battery bank hat I got for my PI4, on my PI5, and surprisingly, it worked, kinda. The PI5 could now display an output but it couldn't pass the rainbow screen. I imagine that the batteries were already on bad conditions since it has already been a year since I used them, so the EEPROM got corrupted since I now got the LED pattern for it. I followed the solutions for EEPROM recovery and it worked, now it got back to the previous behavior of immediately shutting off.
Today I received an official PI5 power supply, but still the same error. I'm posting this here in case anybody knows anything, so for now I assume it is a lost cause. I forgot to mention that I already read the Sticky (viewtopic.php?t=58151) talking about any solutions. The only thing I haven't tried is to change the SD card for an 8GB, but since I got no display even without an SD I'm out of ideas.
Note: As of writing this I reread the post, so no blink might mean the EEPROM memory issue so I might got that wrong, but the first time I tried to fix that I got another pattern for that issue, since I didn't resolved it with the instructions of that post.
Thanks in advance
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