Banana pi with H3 not running

[Daniele98]

Hallo dear friend, I am a beginner . I bought a banana pi h3, I tried to turn it on, powering it to 5 volts, I connected mouse, keyboard, and monitor (with hdmi-vga adapter) but not signs of life, only the red LED is on , os image is loaded in sd card.

I tried to press the on and reset buttons but nothing.
I hope you can help me. Many thanks. Daniele.

[Tido]

Ciao Daniele and welcome,

With regard to your Single-Board-Computer (SBC) can you be more specific which one you have ?

Have you read the beginner guide here: https://docs.armbian.com/

Cheers

Tido

[Daniele98]

https://www.ebay.it/itm/Banana-Pi-BPI-M2-H3-Mini-Quad-Core-H3-Single-Board-Compu/273470048891?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Thank you for the answer,This is the model of banana pi that i have purchased, i don't understand when I turn on the banana, nothing happens, only the red LED lights up, the monitor stays off, and I do not even see the wifi signal on the router.
Maybe the banana is worse or I'm wrong about the procedure?

[Tido]

1 hour ago, Daniele98 said:

with hdmi-vga adapter)

can be tricky (not work), however, just read

 

read here it is easy to understand https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#how-to-boot

[Daniele98]

Ok thank you, but my question is as follows:

the banana pi without so the monitor turns it on o no? My monitor remains off, and also wifi signal is not there.If I was wrong to load so on sd card,the banana pi at least the monitor should turn on?