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I broke a part of my raspberry pi4. It's a black resistor type thing in between the HDMI ports. It won't boot now. The green light comes on temporarily and then goes off. I'm assuming if it was booting the green light would be flashing regularly?
My question is would this be repairable or should I just chuck it out.
I tried to upload images but every image said it was too large

benji241 wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 08, 2019 9:35 am

I broke a part of my raspberry pi4. It's a black resistor type thing in between the HDMI ports.

Looking at an image of the board that appears to be a transistor and presumably critical to Pi 4B operation if that's what causing it not to boot.

It probably is repairable but hard to say or to even know what the component specification is. Full circuit diagrams are not provided and PI PCB's no longer include comprehensive silk-screened component identification.

One of the Foundation's engineers may be able to help but the RPF and RPT don't yet seem to have embraced the ethos of 'right to repair'.

benji241 wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 08, 2019 9:35 am

I tried to upload images but every image said it was too large

upload your image to imgur.com and just post the link to it here.

I have the same issue, would be awesome if someone could figure out what the component does.

benji241 wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 08, 2019 9:35 am

I broke a part of my raspberry pi4. It's a black resistor type thing in between the HDMI ports. It won't boot now. The green light comes on temporarily and then goes off. I'm assuming if it was booting the green light would be flashing regularly?
My question is would this be repairable or should I just chuck it out.
I tried to upload images but every image said it was too large

Hello benji, I tried running a wire on my own pi, and she works: https://imgur.com/a/Z2uQCqE
My suspicion is that it's this part: Richtech RT9742SNGV, i'm gonna try and order that for my own pi