2010-07-18, 13:50
A couple of points before I get started...
I have an ASRock ION along with an MCE remote and IR receiver with my XBMC setup, but a few weeks ago my son decided to drown the remote in green cordial, so for the time being I have been using a wireless media centre keyboard. While I prefer the remote for ease of use, the keyboard is good too. One thing i've noticed with the keyboard though is that sometimes when I make keyboard slips, weird things happen. Eg. when I go to hit enter, and I hit shift+enter together by mistake, it reduces my XBMC window to a quarter of the screen. Usually I just reboot this and it overcomes the problem.
Anyway... Just sat down to watch a movie with the Mrs, and on my keyboard, when I went to go into movies, I, of course, hit shift along with enter by mistake. Immediately XBMC goes to just the top left quarter of the screen and a small cross ( X ) appears in the middle of the screen. I went to do my usual thing and just do a reboot, but this time it didnt work. XBMC now seems to permanently occupy just the top left corner of my screen. I tried recovery mode and same deal. On top of that, it wont respond to any commands from my keyboard. Or even a wired USB keyboard for that matter. Nothing happens at all.
Weirdly, when the ION is booting, it responds to keyboard commands just fine. But once XBMC Live is fully booted, I get nothing.
No idea how this happened or how to fix it. Anyone able to give me a hand?
I have an ASRock ION along with an MCE remote and IR receiver with my XBMC setup, but a few weeks ago my son decided to drown the remote in green cordial, so for the time being I have been using a wireless media centre keyboard. While I prefer the remote for ease of use, the keyboard is good too. One thing i've noticed with the keyboard though is that sometimes when I make keyboard slips, weird things happen. Eg. when I go to hit enter, and I hit shift+enter together by mistake, it reduces my XBMC window to a quarter of the screen. Usually I just reboot this and it overcomes the problem.
Anyway... Just sat down to watch a movie with the Mrs, and on my keyboard, when I went to go into movies, I, of course, hit shift along with enter by mistake. Immediately XBMC goes to just the top left quarter of the screen and a small cross ( X ) appears in the middle of the screen. I went to do my usual thing and just do a reboot, but this time it didnt work. XBMC now seems to permanently occupy just the top left corner of my screen. I tried recovery mode and same deal. On top of that, it wont respond to any commands from my keyboard. Or even a wired USB keyboard for that matter. Nothing happens at all.
Weirdly, when the ION is booting, it responds to keyboard commands just fine. But once XBMC Live is fully booted, I get nothing.
No idea how this happened or how to fix it. Anyone able to give me a hand?