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echo: rberrypi
to: CHRIS GREEN
from: A. DUMAS
date: 2020-09-18 10:36:00
subject: Re: status lights on Pi4

On 18-09-2020 10:15, Chris Green wrote:
> bob prohaska  wrote:
>> Just got a Pi4 with 8GB of RAM up and running. It's an impressive
>> upgrade from a 3b+....
>>
>> It looks as if the logic of the green status LED has been inverted:
>> On the 3b+ the LED was off when idle, flashing when active. The 4
>> seems to idle with the green LED on, it blinks off when active.
>>
>> Is that the whole story? I poked around a little on the Web and
>> didn't find any mention, except for flash codes that signal POST
>> failures.
>>
> It doesn't look that way on my (early) 1Gb Pi 4, red LED on solid,
> once booted and fully started the green LED just flickers occasionally.

Yes, same on my 4 GB Pi4 with standard 32-bit RaspiOS on SD card,
updated to latest including eeprom but not rpi-update. Maybe it's
different when running from USB disk?

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