Or as Gerald already eluded to in his first post. Voltage levels on the GPIO's, or other periphery was too high.
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 07:55:47 -0800 (PST), > [email protected] declaimed the following: > > >It doesn't flashes, no light at all.. during operation it went down. The > BeagleBoard doesn't show up any longer as a hard drive. I connect via the > micro USB port, and that is the only power source for the board. > > If the unit is driving any other hardware, I'd be concerned about > the > power supply... USB is normally only rated for 5V 500mA max (normally that > 500mA is distributed among up to four sockets of a hub). > > However... "during operation it went down" is too vague to really > comment upon... Failure points could be the USB to PMIC, the PMIC itself, > or something later. A short between almost anything could draw more power > than the USB could provide. > > Also, if that unit is running normal Linux (rather than a totally > custom embedded application), then shutdown should NEVER be done by just > pulling the power... Pulling power could lead to a corrupt file system > (though a corrupt file system won't affect the power LED, and maybe not > even the status LEDs. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > [email protected] HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beagleboard/2sff9c9cnbgt4amu00s1j4r8bdtghojqsb%404ax.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORo1eny0Q1UvbEpYGKFmP3MCaNB3mCaUy5_TqaZh_8hH3w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
