Managed to get my display working albeit a weird process after numerous mix-&-match of setting up.
Now, if your board behaves like mine as in when powering up, both the GREEN & ORANGE LED blinks together in sync & after a while, the GREEN LED becomes stable & the ORANGE blinks on its own? Then follow the procedure below:
1. Once you have completed preparing your uSD card, insert into board with both the display & board turned OFF
2. Power up your board but NOT your display
3. Wait till your GREEN LED becomes stable & your ORANGE LED blinks on its own
4. Turn ON your display.
Ps: Don't know why it seems to hang at this stage (keyboard not working either

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