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Hi, 
This is my first post here, I registered looking for help from someone on how to "boot" my OrangePI R1. 
I have 2 of them, bought like 2 years ago but never used because had no time. 
Now I finally got a project I can use them but I can't make them boot in any way. 
 
-I bought a sandisk 16gb suggested TF card to be sure it is not a card incompatibility 
-I tried ALL images (ubuntu, armbian...) available for OrangePi R1 
-I tried BOTH Orangepis2 (Identicals) I bought (to be sure it wasn't damaged) 
-I tried to flash with many different tools (win32diskimager, usbimager, rufus....) 
 
In NO way I have a working boot, just red led. 
File system looks fine, files are written on TF card correctly and partitions created. FAT32. 
Same procedure fo raspberry pi never gave me problems so I am wondering if I am in one of the following conditions: 
 
1-Is the images repository http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/ for OrangePi R1 providing not-working images? (!!!!!) 
2-Were OrangePI R1 2 years old boards defective? (I have read something on the internet about many people having booting problems but unclear) 
 
...or am I doing something wrong I don't realize? 
 
Thank you for any suggestion, 
 
 
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