# HG Adapter card + CM5 4Gb Lite does not boot

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/hg-adapter-card-cm5-4gb-lite-does-not-boot/23710>\
**Category:** uConsole\
**Tags:** hardware\
**Created:** [November 5, 2026, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/hg-adapter-card-cm5-4gb-lite-does-not-boot/23710 "2026-11-05T13:27:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voljka](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/voljka/32/18333_2.png) [@Voljka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Voljka)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/hg-adapter-card-cm5-4gb-lite-does-not-boot/23710/1 "2026-11-05T13:27:40Z")

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Hello. Please help, **HG** uConsole Adapter Boards does not work.

I have two HG Adapter boards, one from HG shop, another from other shop from EU. Both works, or more correctly, both cards does not work in same way.

**uConsole in original configuration works fine**. Core is RP5 CM 4GB Lite. SD card are 64GB A2.

As soon, as I replace original adapter card with HG adapter card, CM5 does not boot.

Console has no any other cards, only motherboard, battery card (no batteries), HG adapter card, RP Core CM5 4Gb Lite, external power connected (Laptop USB C PSU).

Screen turn on backlit and stays in this state forever. On cold boot, literally when all hardware cold, but again, very rarely,

I got output on screen:

 ![HG_Boot](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/clockworkpi/original/3X/e/6/e65d73c5e12d5f6abf87f0c10d0575a9c6075899.jpeg)

My SD Card:

 ![SD_CARD](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/clockworkpi/original/3X/1/0/10793aeaef2463376063995ae4732c4e57a60650.png)

And this is end of boot process.

Here is some info when original adapter installed:

dragon@uConsole:~ $ **vcgencmd bootloader\_version**

2026/10/30 20:55:54

version 42d1b6a942a00e0814415cee30d97b90a1ae394b (release)

timestamp 1793393754

update-time 1793882337

capabilities 0x0000007f

dragon@uConsole:~ $ **sudo rpi-eeprom-config**

[all]

BOOT\_UART=1

POWER\_OFF\_ON\_HALT=1

# Default BOOT\_ORDER for provisioning

# SD → NVMe → USB → Network

BOOT\_ORDER=0xf461

PCIE\_PROBE=0

SD\_BOOT\_MAX\_RETRIES=2

SD\_QUIRKS=1

dragon@uConsole:~ $ **cat /etc/os-release**

PRETTY\_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)”

NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux”

VERSION\_ID=“13”

VERSION=“13 (trixie)”

VERSION\_CODENAME=trixie

DEBIAN\_VERSION\_FULL=13.7

ID=debian

dragon@uConsole:~ $ **uname -a**

Linux uConsole 7.1.4-v8+ #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 26 00:22:19 EDT 2026 aarch64 GNU/Linux

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**Author:** ![white-round-square](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/white-round-square/32/10385_2.png) [@white-round-square](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/white-round-square)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/hg-adapter-card-cm5-4gb-lite-does-not-boot/23710/2 "2026-11-05T14:56:15Z")

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can you please make a photo of uconsole without back cover?

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**Author:** ![Voljka](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/voljka/32/18333_2.png) [@Voljka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Voljka)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/hg-adapter-card-cm5-4gb-lite-does-not-boot/23710/3 "2026-11-05T15:02:57Z")

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i would, but it is unnecessary. I found answer.

SD Cards: 1, 2, 3 are perfectly works with uConsole RPI CM4 to CPI v3.14 Adapter

Only SD Card #3 works with HackerGadgets Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5 AdapterPro for uConsole.

Finita La Comedia.

**P.S. Full answer is:**

Add to bootrom:

SD\_QUIRKS=1

Add to /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt at the end:

sdhci.debug\_quirks2=0x04

This allows to work with all cards (but tested with card #2)

 ![IMG20261105164736](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/clockworkpi/original/3X/c/a/ca646ad738a4edf97dfce59134e2a70b33f5e741.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![solidlantern662](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@solidlantern662](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/solidlantern662)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/hg-adapter-card-cm5-4gb-lite-does-not-boot/23710/4 "2026-11-06T16:14:22Z")

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