For what it's worth Gerald, this happens with nothing connected to the
board as well. This just happened to me last night after issuing a reboot
command from the command line.

I remember at some point you all were talking about something about the
"ramp time" of the PMIC or something.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Gerald Coley <ger...@beagleboard.org> wrote:

> I would start with your cape design and try and rule that out first.
>
> The reset is an input pin read by the processor, not actually a HW power
> reset. If the SW is locked up, this could happen.
>
> If you hold the power button for a 8 seconds or more the board should
> power cycle.
>
> When it is in this state, what do the voltages read?
>
> Gerald
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Jonathan Ross <jonr...@nephology.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Once in a blue moon one of my beaglebones will get into a state where it
>> has power (the power LED is lit), but it is not booted. Normally this would
>> be fine, just hit the power button to reset. But in this weird state the
>> power button does nothing. The reset button does nothing.
>> I checked the power and reset button pins on the header, the power was
>> low, the reset was high.
>> The only way to get the board out of this state was to pull the 5V power.
>> I'm using a KL16 on a cape to do a watchdog on the BB, and reboot it via
>> power and/or reset buttons on the header if the BB stops sending checkins
>> over uart. This has been working great, except for the rare case where the
>> board ends up in this state where the power and reset buttons are not
>> functioning.
>> Any ideas how the BB could get into this state, and if there's any other
>> way to force a reboot other than physically pulling the 5v power?
>> Thanks,
>> JR
>>
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