That should have worked. The only thing I can think of is that there may be a grounding issue where the ground for the PC is different than the ground of the power supply you are using for the 5V input on pins 5 and 6. Make sure they are the same. Without looking at your schematic of how it is hooked up, it is really hard to say what happened.
Gerald On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Aravind V <aravind.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was trying to power the beaglebone white with the expansion header - > connecting 1&2 in P9 to GND and 5 and 6 in P9 to 5V. All was fine till I > connected the USB cable to the Beaglebone and it will no longer work. It > died instantly and without any smoke/pop sound. What could be the reason. > Is it a bad idea to power it via expansion header? > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
