ZCU216 booting led doesn't turn on

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Hello, I recently got ZCU216 evaluation board and tried to install PYNQ v2.7 image.
According to the ZCU216 quick start guide, its led indicating ‘boot done’ should be glowing red, but my board doesn’t. It just remains in ‘init’.
I tried to connect to board via Putty and Jupyter notebook; It showed that the os is installed.
Is it okay to keep working with Jupyter console? If not, how can I resolve this?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

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Hi Igyur,

I am also working with using PYNQ v2.7 on the ZCU216. I am working remotely from the device so I need to get back to you on you on your specific question here but from what I remember, my coworker said the device has lights on and the fan is very loud. He contrasted this with the windows RFDC tool which had some lights turn off after boot and the device wasn’t super loud after it settled in. I hope this helps.

I am curious if you have insight into 2 problems I am encountering:

  1. Were you able to build the pynq image yourself or did you use a prebuilt pynq image? I described a problem I am encountering here: Why I am failing to build image myself

  2. I am using a prebuilt image found here but am running into the problem described in this post when I try to load overlays using the RFSoC textbook example notebooks

Maybe these problems indicate those lights should turn off ?

I really hope we can collaborate as we both go down this path as we seem to be at similar points in our journey of working with the device and pynq.

Thanks

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Hi Charles,
Thank you for replying.

  1. I am using prebuilt image from this repository (technically not from the repository itself, but it provides the link to prebuilt image).

  2. I didn’t start running the codes from the notebook yet, but the situation from your post seems very similar to mine.

Also, I think your coworker is referring to the user controllable led, which has lights on for my board, too.
I think this board might work with the image provided from AMD, but am not sure what to do with that image after. Maybe It will just suggest that this problem is not the hardware fault, which is relieving but not helpful.

I will inform you if I get a further progress.

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Hi Charles,
I have a few updates to inform you.

I’ve tried a lot of other methods all day long, but I just ended up running Jupyter notebook and tried to install the packages even the ‘Done’ LED didn’t light up.
The insalling was successfull and when I looked at the LED, it was lit green, though I don’t know why.
Also I tried using several Disk Image Managers; Win32, Etcher, and Rufus.
Rufus was the last one and it worked (But not sure it mattered).

I think you said that your board didn’t manage to run Jupyter Notebooks, and that is the difference for us now.
Are you using the ethernet cable directly, or with the other converters (such as to c or something)?
I read a lot of cases that using converter was somehow hindering the connection.

My problem is resolved, but I wish to help you, so when you reach the board or have ideas, inform me anytime.

Thanks.

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Hi igyur,

Thank you so much, I really appreciate you still trying to help me.

What notebooks are you running?

The system only crashed when I tried to do things with “overlays” such as qpsk_overlay and so on when I was using the notebooks from the RFSoC textbook.

I am able to run other things properly. I am using Ethernet to a laptop and am bridging internet to the device.

Thank you

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Hi Charles,

I am running the notebooks from repo I menetioned above; the Qick demo things.

Yesterday I also tried installing and running RFSoC textbook package and notebooks. I saw some error occured installing it and when I re-opened the jupyterlab today morning, suddenly every kernel got disabled, with ‘_Xsrf’ argument missing error.
I burnt image on SD card again, and it restored the state before running RFSoC textbook.
Maybe there is something wrong with the textbook package?

Thanks