Le potato died :( . Flashing blue LED

[razorrust]

So my potato has been working great until today. I have coreelec installed and was using it today. I shut it down and went to turn it back on later and it would not boot. Red and green LED are solid but blue LED is flashing. I thought SD may be corrupt. Got a new SD reflashed, same flashing blue LED. Tried a different power supply same issue.

I imagine there’s nothing that can be done, just wondering what likely failed. I have a hot air station, anything worth trying before chucking it in the bin?

Thanks,
Ben

[librecomputer]

If the non-red LEDs are flashing, it means some software is toggling to GPIOs so it is unlikely the board is dead.

[razorrust]

Hmmm. Its dead. or HDMI is dead

[librecomputer]

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