New Orange Pi wont start

cotschi · Post time 2015-2-5 01:46:11

Hello!
I've problems with my new Orange Pi:
It wont start!
I've tested different power supplies (1A to 2.5A), SD Cards (SanDisk Class 10), OS images and cables, but the screen left blank.
The red LED turns on and sometimes the green one turns also on but not all the time.
When i press the power button to turn the Orange Pi off, sometimes the red LED goes darker and flicker, but it don't go off.
Please help me.

Christof

zhao_steven · Post time 2015-2-5 14:43:06

You use Lubuntu image . Hdmi and VGA is ok. Android and bananian use hdmi is ok. But you need use 1.5A + DC.

cotschi · Post time 2015-2-5 22:29:50

i tried the following:
1.0A DC
1.5A DC
2.5A DC

Lubuntu Image
Bananian Image
Android Image

with Hdmi and VGA.

...but nothing worked

gaara · Post time 2015-2-6 00:59:07

Hi, how have you burned your images ?

cotschi · Post time 2015-2-6 05:05:51

gaara replied at 2015-2-6 00:59
Hi, how have you burned your images ?

With win32diskImager.
My Raspberry PI- and Banana PI-Images works fine with this program.

gaara · Post time 2015-2-6 06:22:28

This is weird. Maybe you can try with dd, on an ubuntu system, but I don't know another method to burn the card ...

cotschi · Post time 2015-2-6 06:42:06

gaara replied at 2015-2-6 06:22
This is weird. Maybe you can try with dd, on an ubuntu system, but I don't know another method to bu ...

i will try dd, but i think this is not the reason for the problems.
The behavior of the red LED is also very strange:
Sometimes the light is very dark and flicker unevenly!
is this normal?

zhao_steven · Post time 2015-2-6 17:30:21

you burn Android Image by PhoenixCard_V310_20130618.rar

cotschi · Post time 2015-2-9 02:39:00

now, my orange starts (he didn't like my Dell monitor)

I can run it with my Samsung TV and HDMI,
but lubuntu and bananian randomly freeze:
Sometimes at the main startup sequence and sometimes
at the login! the orange pi still won't start with android.

vEEGAZ · Post time 2015-3-6 04:22:19

cotschi replied at 2015-2-9 02:39
now, my orange starts (he didn't like my Dell monitor)
I can run it with my Samsung TV and HDMI,
b ...

So was it a problem with incompatible monitors?
I'm having a similar behaviour, red and green leds turn on for 3-4 secs then shut off.
No signal to monitor via HDMI or Composite.

Is there any way to get logs from such a short period of time, I guess the OS isn't even booting in those seconds?