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echo: rberrypi
to: RICHARD LEWIS
from: DAVID HIGTON
date: 2020-03-29 22:39:00
subject: Re: Old PI - No ACT light

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          nospam.Richard.Lewis@f317.n249.z1.binkp.net (Richard Lewis) wrote:

>Yesterday my PI was working fine. Today I couldn't SSH to it. Checking the
>LEDs I see only PWR is on, no ACT even after restart.
>
>I read online it could be a malfunctioning SD card. So I used another card
>used the GUI installer to install Raspbian. Inserted into PI and restarted,
>again no ACT and nothing on the monitor.
>
>Could the SD card hardware be the issue? Anyone see this before?

The part that I have seen is a RasPi that appeared dead (so dead that I
put it ready to recycle with the other electronic waste), though the SD
card was still fully readable elsewhere.  On a whim I decided to try it
again with a different SD card.  Lo and behold, it lives again.

David

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