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Zero W died
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:09 am
by justheaven
My pi zero W has been working fine until this morning.
I plugged it in and nothing. The LED didn't flash and the chip gets very warm.
I unplugged it from the application and connected the HDMI up, tried to reboot but it seems to be completely dead.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Steve
Re: Zero W died
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:05 am
by DougieLawson
When you say "warm" is that too hot to touch very quickly.
If it is then your RPiZ is 100% dead and that's usually caused by GPIO abuse.
Re: Zero W died
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:36 am
by justheaven
Not too hot to touch, but warmer than usual.
The only thing on the GPIO is a MotoZero board, which been working fine.
Re: Zero W died
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:38 am
by DougieLawson
Then first move is a factory fresh SDCard, a copy of Raspbian 2017-11-29 and a copy of Etcher to write that to the card.
Re: Zero W died
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:41 am
by RaTTuS
justheaven wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:36 am
Not too hot to touch, but warmer than usual.
The only thing on the GPIO is a MotoZero board, which been working fine.
remove it and see if it boots OK with a fresh micro sdcard and latest raspbian
you may have killed it wiht some bad wiring on the MotoZero btu we'll never know