I have a SOPINE module on the Model A baseboard, with the 7 inch touchscreen kit installed. However, when I try to boot an OS from the SD card, neither the touchscreen nor the HDMI port output anything (my monitor doesn’t even detect the connection). I have tried imaging the card with dd, vanilla etcher, and the Pine64 installer. Nothing has worked. The power lights on both the board and the module light up, and the processor gets somewhat warm to the touch, but not hot or even that warm, so I suspect that it’s just not booting.

What are the steps for diagnosing a situation like this? I’m starting to worry that I got a defective part.

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    • @AgreeableLandscapeOP
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      You will need the serial interface adapter to properly debug this.

      Where’s the serial interface even? Is it the three-pin header on the side of the board next to the headphone jack?

      Does your router register a DHCP request? Maybe you can ssh into it via your network?

      I don’t have the Wi-Fi card yet, and have no available ports on the router (which is in a really hard to reach spot anyway), so that wasn’t my first choice for troubleshooting.

      An idle the A64 chip is clocked quite low, so it could be booting without creating much heat.

      Maybe. Are there any more activity lights, like a storage access light, on the boards that might reveal OS activity?

      Did you try the Armbian images for it?

      I’ve actually been using that this whole time.

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