[MinnowBoard] no suitable video mode found booting in blind mode

Luca l.cappe at gmail.com
Thu May 21 15:04:46 UTC 2015


Hi Ken,

thanks, i will try to find a spare power supply with 3/4A and i will let
know.

Luca.

2015-05-21 16:51 GMT+02:00 Ken Tait <ktait at venturesystemdesign.com>:

> Luca,
>
> As I've stated before in this group, 2 or 2.5A supplies are MARGINAL for
> this board and will not run external drives or other peripherals. If you
> add a Lure it gets worse.
>
> You need at least a 3A supply and Wall Warts are terrible supplies for
> CPUs like this. They cannot handle the startup current needs. It's really a
> fluke that this works at all. It's not the running current that is usually
> the problem, it's the instantaneous current load on startup that is the
> issue.
>
> I've been designing systems for 45+ years..believe me I know what I'm
> talking about...
>
> Get yourself a good switching supply...
>
> Regards
> ken
>
>
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