RPi5 Not booting or checking SD/USB drive
March 31, 2024, 15:48
I have a brand new RPi5, I installed Raspian on a USB drive, booted up, connected via ssh, and ran apt upgrade. It crashed during the upgrade, and now does absolutly nothing when plugged in. All I get is a solid red light. I have tried different images on both USB and SD, pressing the button does nothing.
I assume the bootloader got messed up, since it doesn't even check the USB or SD card, and displays nothing on the hdmi out. How can I fix the bootloader if it doesn't access the attached drives?
With no SD card or usb in it still doesn't display anything?
I SEE YOU <@1071178789939331253>
Yes because I'm helping multiple people
but i was first 😦
Anyway, you just did an sudo apt full-upgrade right?
~~I did yes~~
Sorry no, I did sudo apt update
And your not the most important, now I'm going back to you again
And with everything removed, it still does nothing
One second let me get on desktop
Thanks!
just a warning. your pi may be bricked
That's my fear
which means fully broken. but we can try to fix anyway
Yeah, I'd like to try. I have a multimeter ready
plug your sd card into your computer, go into the imager os and select "misc utility", then pi 5, and then sd card boot
Already tried that
Nothing happened
With both SD and USB with the bootloader reset image
no display or solid green?
Only solid red light
this not looking good
hmm, one second
try pressing erase
What is erase?
at the bottom
it will reformat your sd card
Oh, in the Pi imager correct?
yes
There is no button that says erase. Just device, operating system, and storage
oh sorry, press on operating system
then erase
Done
Any other ideas <@1071178789939331253>
?
yes, just flash it with normal 32 bit rpi os. after that its probably dead
Yeah I tried that, no luck. I have a multi meter, can I check pins to see what is going on? The gpio pins have 5.1v and 3.3v where they should. Can I check somehting else?
not really no. your pi is dead.
do you have a thermal camera or anything?
Unfortunelty no. But I can't feel any heat coming from anywhere
well nothing you can do really now unless your incredibly smart.
I am moderatly smart. What do you suggest?
no i mean like 10x smarter than me. you could replace some resistors/transistors or the actual cpu die and RP1 chip its self. but that above me so i could suggest any of that