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stack · 09-23-2016, 12:52 AM

I understand. Makes a lot of sense to see what can be done before actually attempting to do something that might not work. I was thinking there might be a playbook to follow and simply felt overwhelmed trying to decipher all that I was reading.

Unfortunately I've run into a pretty big snag in moving forward. Last night I tried to 'exit to login prompt' when minicom froze on me. Turns out I somehow pulled out the ground wire from the board as I was manipulating the screen (that little guy was a pain to get a grip on the pad in the first place). Today I spent some time modifying the kindle and put headers on both the kindle and ftx board.

Spoiler:

Of course now I cannot connect to minicom or putty. I've spent the last few hours testing and re-testing every connection with a multimeter, but there are no shorts and everything looks solid. Is it possible I've killed something by either losing ground or pulling the battery when exiting diags? Everything else seems the same as there are no issues restarting or getting the screen to light up to the tree screen. I'm totally stumped and will probably end up reverting the modifications to what worked if there isn't a common issue I'm missing here.

Any ideas?

09-23-2016, 12:52 AM	#26
stack Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Chicago Device: PW2	I understand. Makes a lot of sense to see what can be done before actually attempting to do something that might not work. I was thinking there might be a playbook to follow and simply felt overwhelmed trying to decipher all that I was reading. Unfortunately I've run into a pretty big snag in moving forward. Last night I tried to 'exit to login prompt' when minicom froze on me. Turns out I somehow pulled out the ground wire from the board as I was manipulating the screen (that little guy was a pain to get a grip on the pad in the first place). Today I spent some time modifying the kindle and put headers on both the kindle and ftx board. Spoiler: Of course now I cannot connect to minicom or putty. I've spent the last few hours testing and re-testing every connection with a multimeter, but there are no shorts and everything looks solid. Is it possible I've killed something by either losing ground or pulling the battery when exiting diags? Everything else seems the same as there are no issues restarting or getting the screen to light up to the tree screen. I'm totally stumped and will probably end up reverting the modifications to what worked if there isn't a common issue I'm missing here. Any ideas? Last edited by stack; 09-23-2016 at 12:55 AM.