# Dead inkyphat?

**URL:** <https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/dead-inkyphat/16707>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 23, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/dead-inkyphat/16707 "2021-03-23T10:33:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/dead-inkyphat/16707/1 "2021-03-23T10:33:36Z")

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I have a 2018 era inkyphat installed on a pi zero and which has been working fine since it was installed (updating once an hour).It now seems to have died, in that the code runs without error, but the screen does not update. (Tried test.py and others, same result).

pi@inky:~ $ sudo pip show inkyphat  
Name: inkyphat  
Version: 0.1.1  
Summary: Inky pHAT Driver  
Home-page: [http://www.pimoroni.com](http://www.pimoroni.com)  
Author: Philip Howard  
Author-email: [phil@pimoroni.com](mailto:phil@pimoroni.com)  
License: MIT  
Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages  
Requires: spidev, numpy, RPi.GPIO, pillow

Any idea how to determine if it is really dead or just resting?  
Thanks