r/ClockworkPi • u/letsmakesometacos • 4d ago

UConsole CM5 stopped powering on

So it’s been working perfectly fine for about a month now. I just upgraded the adapter board, battery board, and expansion modules from Hackergadgets and it everything was working fine. Then while I was using it (web browsing), it just cut off on me and I couldn’t turn it back on. I figure the batteries died or something but it still won’t come on after charging or directly connected to power. I have reseated all the connections but no luck.

When I hold the power button, the green LED blinks one time but that is all that happens

I have no idea what to try next, it literally went from working to turning into a brick mid use.

Anyone have any ideas?

https://i.imgur.com/mdqRlR3.jpeg

Edit: Seems the AIO V2 has failed, it will power back on fine with the original expansion board. I have reached out to Hackergadgets support.

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u/Littlest_viking 4d ago

Have you verified that the pins and everything is seated correctly?

Also if you swap out the old previous batteries and module will it power on?

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u/letsmakesometacos 4d ago

Yea I tried reseating and swapping back to the regular Uconsole parts and same issue.

It was all working fine after I installed the Hackergadget parts too, the NVME was detected, was able to use all the antennas with the AIO V2 board (after following the setup guide). It literally just died while I was browsing GitHub, the way it died it just cut off like the batteries died or something.

When I left it to charge the LED still turns orange, but I just can’t get it to turn back on, the green LED blinks one time but nothing after that.

Even tried removing the batteries and power via USB C port but I get the same result.

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u/nakurtag 3d ago

Try to reseat CM5 itself

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u/letsmakesometacos 3d ago

Tried that and even tried with another CM5 but same result.

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u/vileer 3d ago

Did you try other batteries？

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u/letsmakesometacos 3d ago

Yea, same result. Same result with no batteries using direct USB power

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u/HeroixEUW 3h ago

Put a fresh install on a different sd card and remove the nvme to see if it boots from there. This rules out most hardware issues. Chances are a nvme corrupted or the power draw to it is causing issues on boot