[MinnowBoard] problem getting Minnowboard Max to start

[Christopher Price]

Keep in mind that Minnowboard MAX is BayTrail-I not BayTrail-M/T so yes, it is “picky about power” - but if you are intending this for product development, you’ll find that switching over to one of those solutions will give you better battery controls.

Christopher Price
ConsoleOS.com - iConsole.tv

On Sep 13, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Nathan Becker <nathanbecker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm using a 5V 10W power supply. I realize that the spec is 12.5 W, but the wiki points to some other 10W supplies (not the one I have). I guess I'll have to buy another power supply to test further. I tried a 5W supply and found that the blinking is different. At 10W I get both LEDs on for a couple seconds, then the one next to the SATA port blinks off and on very slowly. On a 5W supply, the LED next to the SATA port blinks very rapidly.
> 
> Once things are working, I need to run on battery, so I'm a little disappointed to see that the board is so picky about power.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Timothy Hurita <iviguy at outlook.com> wrote:
> Both blue lights should be solid. If the one next to the SATA connector is blinking then it's likely that the MAX isn't happy with the power source. I ran into the same issue using a high end 750W ATX power supply. The MAX would start to post, then the screen would go blank and one of the blue lights would flash. While monitoring power with a DMM I'd see it drop from 5.1v to 4.7v so maybe I wasn't loading the power supply enough. I did have a 10 Ohm resistor across the same power rail so I am not really sure what the deal was.
> 
> What did work was an ancient 200W ATX PS I had laying around. I can also power the MAX and an SSD just fine with a 10W cell phone charger.
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