Is this ESP 12-F dead?

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Pretty sure this isn't the right topic but not sure where else to put it.

I am working on an esp12-f based project and just desoldered my esp from an older project and soldered it onto the new board. The code that is installed should connect to wifi and then start rapidly blinking while waiting for client to join. This was working until removing the esp from the old board and installing it on the new one. Pull-up and pull-down resistors are the basic setup, except I forgot to put pullup onto the programming reset buttons that is my only suspicion right now since the module is not heating up as most dead chips do. The led doesn't come on either. Every pin is getting the expected voltage so it shouldn't even be a psu issue either. Any ideas on what I should check?

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En and GPIO 2 pulled high and GPIO 15 is pulled low with 10K resistors instead of the 1K shown for every resistor.
Reset and GPIO 0 are floating but can be puled down to ground with two buttons for programming.
All other pins are connnected to headers but nothing is currently connected to the headers.

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"Hardware"

Pull-up and pull-down resistors are the basic setup

No way you can get away without posting a real schematic, there are 1,000,000 basic setups.

Do you think that a series of wild guesses from people who can't see your board or know how it is wired, could possibly help?

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Thank you I never really needed posted to a forum like this so I missed some things. I have updated the topic and the post to include the schematic.

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... and what did you do then? Did you try providing a pull up?

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Reset must be pulled high by a resistor.

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Extra parts finally came in and no, sadly still no sign of life even with both buttons pulled high. Voltage on reset is now either 3.3 or 0 but nothing.

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You didn't provide an updated schematic.

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I recieved a replacement and I assembled a new board with a brand new one and that is working. My guess is that the first one got a bit too much heat while soldering. It's just weird aince I would expect it to show signs like heating up but guess not all dead mcus do that.

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