[MinnowBoard] repair minnowboard power supply

[Patrick Mulder]

good news, the repair worked, and the minnowboard is running again.

I was wondering how the board boots actually from the SD card now. Does it
have flash memory for the first level boot, e.g. where a bootloader looks
for the sd card?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:57 PM, Douglas Kryder <dkryder at gmail.com> wrote:

> yes, it is U35 which goes bad. it takes some soldering skills to replace
> it.
>
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Krau, Michael P <michael.p.krau at intel.com
> > wrote:
>
>> If I remember correctly, (from back in the early days, when this was a
>> more common event):
>>
>>
>>
>> The schematic page 22 is of more value.  I believe when 12vts is applied,
>> the chip U35 was the first (and usually only) part to go south.
>>
>>
>>
>> Though there should be some discussion of this in earlier threads (about
>> 2 + years ago).
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Krau
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* elinux-MinnowBoard [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-bou
>> nces at lists.elinux.org] *On Behalf Of *Patrick Mulder
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 24, 2017 1:04 PM
>> *To:* elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org
>> *Subject:* [MinnowBoard] repair minnowboard power supply
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> unfortunately, I applied 12V instead of 5V on the DC jack.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now, only 1 of 2 diodes is lightning up.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am looking at:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.minnowboard.org/images/b/bd/Minnowboard_Turbot_X205_Sch.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> p. 29:
>>
>>
>>
>> 5 V DC --> NMOS and Switching supply . Not sure where to look for the
>> broken IC from this. What could I do to repair the board?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>>
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
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