NodeMCU Starting Help

Hey everyone
I just learnt about NodeMCU and got myself a few to play with and turn into a few things.

They arrived the other day, so I connected one up, loaded up the Arduino IDE and did the usual first thing, loaded the blink sample
But I cant get it to work

Googling around I found that my chip looks different to the ones shown online (Doesn't have the WiFi chip from what I can tell) so not sure if thats part of my issues?

I have followed a number of tutorials online, but nothing seems to be working for me.

The code compiles and seems to upload fine to the chip, but when I put the LED across the pins, it just glows very dim.
I ahve tried different pins and different code examples but nothing seems to work.

Any help / input would be great?
Thanks in advance

Nevermind
Found out it was a DOA board