I have been happily using my Pi 5 with a Pi 4 power supply for weeks now. Yesterday I received the Argon One V3 NVME case from Argon 40. I installed the Pi, booted up off of the SD card (no NVME installed yet) and was pretty excited about how slick this case is. Then about 30 seconds later, the Pi shut down. Now I get a steady red light when plugged in, but no boot, no display. I started digging and troubleshooting on my own, here’s what I’ve tried:
removed the Pi from the Argon case
I used a new SD card to flash Raspberry Pi OS via Raspberry Pi imager
I used a new SD card to flash Raspberry Pi Bootloader via Raspberry Pi imager
I used an existing SD card with a known previously working Raspberry Pi OS
I tried another power supply, though admittedly not an official Pi 5 power supply (that is coming in the mail)
None of these things have resulted in anything different. It seems the Pi is receiving power, the red light is on, but that’s it, nothing more. Now I have a number of questions:
This case uses a daughter board to route power button, hdmi, USB-C power-in to the back of the case. Could this daughter board have bricked my Pi somehow?
How can I be confident that installing a new Pi 5 in this case won’t end in the same problem?
Is there a way to recover this Pi 5 from it’s non-booting state?
Is there a warranty for the Pi 5? If so, how to I make a claim?
Is there any chance that using a Pi 5 power adapter will magically bring this Pi back to life? (seems unlikely)
I have also posted on the Argon Forums, The Official Raspberry Pi Forums, and /r/raspberry_pi
So far I’d guess the power supply burnt itself up with the additional load (though miniscule!); I’d await the pi5 power supply that you have coming and test to be sure
If that doesn’t fix it and the other forums bear no fruit: Was it purchased from us? If so head over to www.sparkfun.com/returns (contact vendor if purchased elsewhere) and we’ll get ya squared away