roboRIO 2.0 blinking status light

[Cbanz77]

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Hi my name is Caiden from Team 9034

We are trying to get a roborio 2.0 to work and unfortunately we could not get it to work. The status light is blinking. 

We tried using 2 different working imaged sd cards and did not work. We also read through the troubleshoot forum and tried everything and we even took it apart the roborio and blew it with compressed air and had the same results.

if someone could help us that would be great thank you!

[mshafer]

What is the blinking pattern? is it a constant flash (no grouping?)

And to be clear, when you image the SD card using either BalenaEtcher or the Raspberry Pi imager you are using a .*img*.zip file as described here: https://docs.wpilib.org/en/stable/docs/zero-to-robot/step-3/roborio2-imaging.html ?

[Cbanz77]

The blinking is constant and and yes we did use the .img.zip

[mshafer]

Which imager are you using? (can you try the other one?)

[Cbanz77]

We used 2 working as cards and we know there working because we tried both of them on a working roborio and we use balenaetcher

[Cbanz77]

We have just been made aware that there is a crunched pin 

[mshafer]

I'm not sure whether or not a card can be moved between RIOs without re-imaging. I'll ask a hardware dev about that.

Can you try the RasPi imager (freshly image the card before inserting in the unit we're working on)?

[mshafer]

TIL: Moving an SD card from one roboRIO v2 to another is supposed to work.

Can you double check (use a flashlight to help inspect) that there are no shavings in the SD card slot on the non-working unit?

[Cbanz77]

We did use raspberry pi imager and tried but we used a flashlight and visually confirmed a bent pin 

[mshafer]

Ok, I sent you a direct message on next steps to deal with the bent pin.