[WhiteWidow]

I have a Asus chromebox cn60 I did for a friend that i think may be bricked. It only a few months old. Standalone install. Sometimes It get stuck at the seabios booting from hard drive other times I get no signal out of the HDMI. I have tried booting a generic build of openelec and ubutnu on a usb and just get a black screen. Ive tried swapping ram out. but any ram I put in results in a black screen at boot (no bios). Only time i can ge tthe bios is having the 2gb stick in that came with the box. What else can you recommend I try to get this box recovered?

FYI, From what he told me is it just locked up on him one day and he rebooted it and it stuck at the bios screen for booting hard drive.

*EDIT* I switched to a display port to DVI cable and I can get to boot options on every boot now. But booting from an ubutnu live usb or openelec install will get stuck with either a black screen or a white cursor.

[Matt Devo]

sounds like the ram you're swapping in isn't low-voltage (DDR3L).

what's the firmware version string (on top, at boot)

how are you creating the boot media?

[WhiteWidow]

sounds like the ram you're swapping in isn't low-voltage (DDR3L).

what's the firmware version string (on top, at boot)

how are you creating the boot media?

RAM is low voltage Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3/DDR3L 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) CL11 204-Pin SODIMM Memory for Mac CT2K4G3S160BM / CT2C4G3S160BM
http://goo.gl/yvT1Gn

SeaBIOS v rel-1.8.1-11-gb7362f4-20150610

Tried creating ubutnu and mint with win32diskimiger and Lili

EDIT
Let me rephrase With the stock ram or the new ram I can get ubutunu and mint to boot as far as the screen to choose language and configure boot options. when choosing to boot live it locks up

[Matt Devo]

RAM is low voltage Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3/DDR3L 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) CL11 204-Pin SODIMM Memory for Mac CT2K4G3S160BM / CT2C4G3S160BM
http://goo.gl/yvT1Gn

SeaBIOS v rel-1.8.1-11-gb7362f4-20150610

Tried creating ubutnu and mint with win32diskimiger and Lili

EDIT
Let me rephrase With the stock ram or the new ram I can get ubutunu and mint to boot as far as the screen to choose language and configure boot options. when choosing to boot live it locks up

if you're using Ubuntu 15.10, then that's a known issue (with a workaround) documented on the wiki.

[WhiteWidow]

RAM is low voltage Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3/DDR3L 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) CL11 204-Pin SODIMM Memory for Mac CT2K4G3S160BM / CT2C4G3S160BM
http://goo.gl/yvT1Gn

SeaBIOS v rel-1.8.1-11-gb7362f4-20150610

Tried creating ubutnu and mint with win32diskimiger and Lili

EDIT
Let me rephrase With the stock ram or the new ram I can get ubutunu and mint to boot as far as the screen to choose language and configure boot options. when choosing to boot live it locks up

if you're using Ubuntu 15.10, then that's a known issue (with a workaround) documented on the wiki.

Used ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64

[Matt Devo]

Used ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64

dunno, try another USB stick? There's no reason it should start the installer but then hang

PS - you can't embed images from google photos, you have to post it as a link

[WhiteWidow]

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RAM is low voltage Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3/DDR3L 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) CL11 204-Pin SODIMM Memory for Mac CT2K4G3S160BM / CT2C4G3S160BM
http://goo.gl/yvT1Gn

SeaBIOS v rel-1.8.1-11-gb7362f4-20150610

Tried creating ubutnu and mint with win32diskimiger and Lili

EDIT
Let me rephrase With the stock ram or the new ram I can get ubutunu and mint to boot as far as the screen to choose language and configure boot options. when choosing to boot live it locks up

if you're using Ubuntu 15.10, then that's a known issue (with a workaround) documented on the wiki.

Used ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64
https://goo.gl/photos/Ab2LrEJHE22bd7118

[WhiteWidow]

Used ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64

dunno, try another USB stick? There's no reason it should start the installer but then hang

PS - you can't embed images from google photos, you have to post it as a link

Ive tried 3 different usb sticks

[Matt Devo]

Used ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64
https://goo.gl/photos/Ab2LrEJHE22bd7118

definitely looks like a ram/hardware issue.

edit: boot a USB which has memtest86 on it and run that

[WhiteWidow]

Used ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64
https://goo.gl/photos/Ab2LrEJHE22bd7118

definitely looks like a ram/hardware issue.

edit: boot a USB which has memtest86 on it and run that

Crap, will asus RMA with seabios on it?

[Matt Devo]

Crap, will asus RMA with seabios on it?

probably not, but you can always flash the stock firmware back on using an external programmer (eg, raspberry pi)

[WhiteWidow]

Crap, will asus RMA with seabios on it?

probably not, but you can always flash the stock firmware back on using an external programmer (eg, raspberry pi)

Any tutorials on how to do that. I have a pi

[Matt Devo]

Any tutorials on how to do that. I have a pi

for a Chromebook, but same process: http://www.tnhh.net/2014/08/25/unbrickin...ebone.html

[WhiteWidow]

Used ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64
https://goo.gl/photos/Ab2LrEJHE22bd7118

definitely looks like a ram/hardware issue.

edit: boot a USB which has memtest86 on it and run that

memtest86 came back with 0 errors. I have no clue what the issue could be.

[Soli]

Hi Matt.
I tried to restore a CN60 back to ChromeOS. Seems for some reason that I bricked It. (I've done this a few times, everything checked out so I guess I was just unlucky). So I have to restore the firmware with a soic8 programmer. I guess I'll find the firmware location somewhere in your script, but when using flashrom with either a RPI, or a 341 usb programmer: Do I have to do anything to keep the VPD?

Edit: by pressing ctrl-l i can get the seabios "press esc" text, but just for a split second. Even though I am hammering that esc button, the display just shuts off and nothing happens.

Edit: tried to remove the ssd and press ctrl-l at boot:

I cannot get to the boot menu. (Even though the legacy payload is set to boot from USB, it doesn't)