Hello everyone
Just received my console,
Assembled all together and press the power button,green light turns on and the red led turns on the battery compartment,but no screen power up,the battery compartment is the one from hacker gadgets with the extension memory option, ,program is loaded on the eemc memory,have tried the sd card on top of the unit to boot as well,going to pick up a mini hdmi plug this afternoon to see if booting via hdmi,do i need to check anything else, thanks 
I’d remove all the third-party options and try to run the stock system first. If you added the options before first boot, then you introduced more variables to the problem. Try to isolate the problem with fewer variables.
Ok so i can power up the unit and plug in the micro hdmi plug into the side and i get the screen all good 
,but the keyboard and mouse does not work,i tried plugging in a wired mouse to the usb port and doesn’t work either, “not sure if it is supposed to work that easy”
Running Dragon os
CM5 with board
When the cm5 is plugged into a separate i/o expander board everything works all good
tried plugging in a wired mouse to the usb port and doesn’t work either, “not sure if it is supposed to work that easy”
Yes, it’s supposed to be that easy. Until I replaced my trackball with something that worked well, that’s what I did.
have you tried re-seating the keyboard? it s a set of connectors that touches main board.