Motors not starting on my P3A

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I went for a short flight this morning and when landing in a paved parking lot the bird tipped backwards and two rotors jammed. I hit the power off but had to do that twice before the motors stopped. I set the P3A upright and fired up the motors.Three started .I powered down again and checked for free play in all the motors. Everything felt fine but when I tried to power up again nothing worked. I wouldn't think it would be an overheating issue since I've had the same problem before on landings with another P3A and and a P2. I'm using the Litchi app and camera works fine. It just that the motors won't start up. Any ideas? I really would like to have the drone working for an event on the first weekend of November.
 
Are you getting ESC errors?
 
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What @Oso is asking for is:
When the Flight Controller refuses to start motors, it sends back error code to the Mobile App, and the app shows corresponding message. You need to share that message.

I once even made a list of the codes and corresponding messages, but that didn't got much traction:
 
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Where would I see error codes? I have a feeling it might be a ESC problem but unlike my P2 that had separate ESC boards the P3 ESC seems to be integrated into the main board.
Below is a snippet from the link @quaddamage gave you earlier in post 3. It notes that you can see the error in your log, in the app, and gives some suggestions for troubleshooting.

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The go app may well show a pop up message concerning the esc error, I have a drone doing this and attached is a screen capture of the go app warning
 

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