Hi,
I was using my Banana Pi BPI-F3 (16GB RAM variant) to build a tool using make -j6. The system was running fine and I was monitoring the temperature using a system monitor. It was consistently around 65 °C, and the build had reached about 80% completion.
Suddenly, the board powered off by itself with no warning.
Now when I try to power it on:
The board doesn’t boot
Pressing the power button or reconnecting power only causes a single brief flash of red and green LEDs at the same time
No HDMI signal, and no further LED activity after that
I was using a heatsink with thermal pads, but I now suspect the thermal contact may have been poor. The pad wasn’t very sticky and came off easily.
Is this a thermal shutdown? Or could it be any hardware failure?
Need help with diagnosing or recovering the board
Is the project you compiled available on github or somewhere else on the internet? I also have the 16gb version, i am using this heatsink https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807183739036.html
and an Arctic mx-6 paste. I wonder whether my board would be able to compile the project you mentioned. How long did it take to compile until the 80%? Anyways i think your board is probably dead and you should RMA it.