Hacker Gadgets 3 Board Upgrade Help

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I got my kit in yesterday and I am starting sort of from scratch because my SD card went bad and my system quit booting a couple of weeks ago or so, and I just waited for this to arrive. I have installed everything and installed Trixie on a new MicroSD card but I am getting just a black screen. Can we get some instructions from scratch? I would be much obliged. BTW, I also installed an SSD.

Just to clarify, I got all three boards.

Here is what I did and what has happened. I installed the Trixie version available from someone on this forum. I installed all of the boards. I put the SD card in and it boots. I go through and answer all the questions. After a while, the screen goes black and then that is it. I waited hours and nothing. I tried again. Same thing happened again.

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since you also installed an SSD i will guess you need to check the EEPROM config.
go here: EEPROM config and the CM5 lite
you can also check some posts regarding the SSD over here HackerGadgets' uConsole Upgrade Kit - adding NVME SSD(PCIe), RJ45 Ethernet and USB 3.0 to your Uconsole

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I’m booting from a MicroSD actually. I plan on setting up the NVME, but not yet as I was trying to keep it simple.

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I still get the same problem as before. I think I followed the linked directions but they weren’t very clear to me. I imaged the uConsole specific Trixie and edited the config.txt to match what the linked instructions show. I booted the uConsole with the MicroSD card in and it boots and lets me go through the setup, then after a while, it goes black and never returns.

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Also, where do I set the dip switches to? The rPiBoot one and the EEPROM one

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This was the default setting of my dip switches and it’s working running Trixie.. See attachement

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