Is my raspberry pi3b+ dead?
I'm using my Pi to make a mars rover using an l298n motor driver. The l298n has a separate usb power source, and the pi has a different one. While connecting the ground of the l298n to the Pi's ground, I think I connected it to the wrong pin (not entirely sure). The lights dimmed, and i pulled out the jumper wire almost immediately. I was pinging the pi from my PC, and it started showing the no route to host stuff. An SSH connection was on, it got disconnected. I decided to reboot my Pi by directly removing the cable (I had no other choice). And then, this happened. I was powering the l298n and the pi with USB cables coming out of my PC.
My pi just shows the red PWR light when a power is connected, and the green ACT light does not turn on at all. There is no damage to the SD Card reader, and I tried booting from a USB with no luck. Nothing gets hot, nothing is displayed on the HDMI, as if the pi is dead.
Is it really dead? If not, what can I do to fix it? I really need it fixed fast.
k9t33n
can you tell us what pin you connected it to and what voltage it was recieving?
k9t33n
the thing is the gpio pins are directly conected to the main microchip so if you did put too much voltage into the wrong pin your practically done for
unknownvinayak
I dont remember it gpio 11,12 or near to 24
k9t33n
okay let me check
unknownvinayak
Ok tysm
k9t33n
ok this is what I always use
k9t33n
if you power it up with nothing attached to the gpio pins, and try a local monitor instead of pinging it via ssh or vnc or something that sometimes helps
k9t33n
I literally just had to do that because my SD card kinda currupted
unknownvinayak
Oh ok ty for support lemme check
unknownvinayak
Hi can you read that message again
unknownvinayak
I'm using my Pi to make a mars rover using an l298n motor driver. The l298n has a separate usb power source, and the pi has a different one. While connecting the ground of the l298n to the Pi's ground, I think I connected it to the wrong pin (not entirely sure). The lights dimmed, and i pulled out the jumper wire almost immediately. I was pinging the pi from my PC, and it started showing the no route to host stuff. An SSH connection was on, it got disconnected. I decided to reboot my Pi by directly removing the cable (I had no other choice). And then, this happened. I was powering the l298n and the pi with USB cables coming out of my PC.
My pi just shows the red PWR light when a power is connected, and the green ACT light does not turn on at all. There is no damage to the SD Card reader, and I tried booting from a USB with no luck. Nothing gets hot, nothing is displayed on the HDMI, as if the pi is dead.
Is it really dead? If not, what can I do to fix it? I really need it fixed fast.
unknownvinayak
This one see
unknownvinayak
Both the l298n and the pi were connected to different USB power sources coming from the PC. I was connecting the l298n's ground pin to the Pi's ground pin.