pISO DOA

[steve500]

I have a brand new Pi Zero W I am using with a pISO I received from Adam a while back, screws and hardware never arrived. I used my own rounded up screws, nuts, and plastic washers to put it together. I flashed the latest release to an SD card and powered it up. I receive the boot splash logo and that is all.

I then tested other SD cards that are known working good but they also do not boot up. I tested HDMI signal and I do get the colored bars. I instead tried flashing my SD cards with other Pi distros and they all boot up and work perfectly via the USB and HDMI port without any issues. The pISO does not work. I have tried getting logs using the log file tricks, tried older releases, a log file is never generated.

I then updated Adam with a photo of my pISO board, I believe there are two missing pogo pins in blank round trace spots. I have been very delicate with the pISO, I checked the packaging to see if they'd come off in shipping but I did not find anything, since my last email with photos of the board to Adam, I have gotten no response in 8 days now.

I'm going to be patient and figure that life happens, I am optimistic that this can be fixed. Would love to utilize the advantages of the pISO project.

-Steve

[Don-Swanson]

The issues appear to be the cheap pogo pins not pushing all the way through. I had the same issue if you look at issue #84 . After much troubleshooting and lots of testing of the pins, I would always find 1 or 2 that didn't push all the way through the holes.

I went ahead and just soldered the darn things together, and I have no issues anymore.