Hello.
So I looked around for a better place to post this, but, I'm not finding a better spot. If there's a better spot, please move the thread!
I got an Asus Tinkerboard S for Christmas. Which is cool, I've been wanting to get Retropie going on one for a while now. But I've bumped into a bit of a problem with it and there's next to nothing out there to help me. So I turn to the [H]!
The TB S has 16GB of onboard eMMC storage, and I bought a 64GB SD card to augment that. I downloaded an Armbian image that has Retropie already installed, and flashed it to the eMMC storage. That part worked as expected: I plugged in the TB S to my computer with a USB cable using its microUSB port, and turned on, my computer dinged as though a new device had been found, and the TB S showed up in Explorer as writable flash memory. I used Etcher to write the image to the eMMC and that was that.
However, after flashing it, the TB S wouldn't boot. Nothing came up but a black screen. I had read this could happen on first boot, so I waited it out. I even waited overnight, hoping I just wasn't giving it enough time, but no dice.
So, I read that what I needed to do was download an official TinkerOS image, flash it onto the SD card, install the SD card in the TB S, set the jumper on the TB S to Maskrom mode, and plug in the TB S to my computer via the microUSB port. So I did all that. The TB S boots fine in this way using a 5v/3A power supply plugged into the wall, but when I attempt to use a USB cable running to my PC instead, the TB S turns on for a few seconds, then turns off before there's any screen activity. Additionally, I should add that this behavior continues even if I use different USB cables, and different PC's as well.
Did I somehow brick this thing, or at the very least, damage it? Not sure what to do next. I suppose I could re-flash the SD card using a different Retropie image, but that would just be ignoring the eMMC storage on the TB S.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
~Ark
So I looked around for a better place to post this, but, I'm not finding a better spot. If there's a better spot, please move the thread!
I got an Asus Tinkerboard S for Christmas. Which is cool, I've been wanting to get Retropie going on one for a while now. But I've bumped into a bit of a problem with it and there's next to nothing out there to help me. So I turn to the [H]!
The TB S has 16GB of onboard eMMC storage, and I bought a 64GB SD card to augment that. I downloaded an Armbian image that has Retropie already installed, and flashed it to the eMMC storage. That part worked as expected: I plugged in the TB S to my computer with a USB cable using its microUSB port, and turned on, my computer dinged as though a new device had been found, and the TB S showed up in Explorer as writable flash memory. I used Etcher to write the image to the eMMC and that was that.
However, after flashing it, the TB S wouldn't boot. Nothing came up but a black screen. I had read this could happen on first boot, so I waited it out. I even waited overnight, hoping I just wasn't giving it enough time, but no dice.
So, I read that what I needed to do was download an official TinkerOS image, flash it onto the SD card, install the SD card in the TB S, set the jumper on the TB S to Maskrom mode, and plug in the TB S to my computer via the microUSB port. So I did all that. The TB S boots fine in this way using a 5v/3A power supply plugged into the wall, but when I attempt to use a USB cable running to my PC instead, the TB S turns on for a few seconds, then turns off before there's any screen activity. Additionally, I should add that this behavior continues even if I use different USB cables, and different PC's as well.
Did I somehow brick this thing, or at the very least, damage it? Not sure what to do next. I suppose I could re-flash the SD card using a different Retropie image, but that would just be ignoring the eMMC storage on the TB S.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
~Ark