(2013-10-18, 15:44)IIIPgCIII Wrote: I have a DCCP847DYE.

I have installed Openelec no problem, but I wanted a bit more freedom (emulators,etc)

I tried to install XBMCbuntu, but all I get is a black screen with a cursor. I cannot SSH into the nuc, or get a shell on the actual machine (ctrl+alt+f1)

I have tried both xbmcbuntu-12.2.Intel-NVIDIA.iso and xbmcbuntu-12.0.Intel-NVIDIA.iso.

What am I doing wrong, how can I fix this?

(2013-10-17, 14:25)the_bluester Wrote: I have been trawling this thread til my eyes hurt as it seemed the likely one to have my answer.

Based on things read here and responses on another forum, I bought a second NUC a couple of days ago. What I was trying to be sure about was performance of the celeron version for bd iso playback. I bought an I3 first time around and was roundly called an idiot on another forum for wasting money by not getting a celeron as it would be fine.

So, this time around I bought a celeron and bd playback in my initial test is terrible. Hitting o lets me watch it run up about ten dropped frames a second. Watching bd content ripped to mkv at full res and high quality it is smooth as silk with a couple of dropped frames as the video starts and that is it.

The spec is the celeron NUC (obviously) with 4g of 1033 Ram and an intel 30g msata ssd. OS is Ubuntu 12.04 and XBMC is 12.2. Bios I updated to the latest. Ubuntu reports all up to date to sudo apt-get update.

Have I let myself be dudded into buying one that just won't cut it or am I missing basics in settings? The I3 simply worked out of the box with all the same settings and the same ram and ssd. I turned off all the hd audio options in xbmc settings as that gave trouble on my wife's PC but it made no difference. Audio quality is not a great issue as it is just for a bedroom tv with only the tv speakers.

(2013-10-18, 10:17)grnt Wrote: Hi guys I have a few quick questions as I am considering picking up one of these beauties so I can make my N40L strictly a server.

1) Do you need to use a specific installation of Openelec or do you just use the Generic build?

2) As this will only serve media (from the NAS) is it worth running an SSD or will I not really notice much difference from say an 8GB USB card?

3) Is SODIMM RAM required? My N40L said it needed SODIMM ram but it runs just fine with normal desktop grade RAM (and I've never had an issue with it).

(2013-10-19, 02:50)swerver32 Wrote: It does get bogged down a bit when I do a first scrub, but not too bad after that.

(2013-10-18, 17:23)jinkyjim Wrote: I tried XBMCbuntu on my q190 and all i got was the black screen with a cursor,
i googled the problem and found this ......

Power on, as soon as the Bios screen vanishes hold down the right-shift key (Don’t press it, hold it down!)
You will be presented with a GRUB boot screen in which your choices are “Unbuntu” or “Advanced options for Ubuntu”.
The “Unbuntu” option will already be selected. Press “e” to edit the boot options.
Find the line that begins “linux /boot/vmlinux-3.5.0-34-generic root=”
Put a space at the end of the line and add this text, without the speech-marks “i915.i915_enable_rc6=0″.
Press F10 and it will continue to boot normally. Once the system is fully booted, we must make this change permanent, so that it happens on every subsequent boot.
Press CTRL-ALT-F1 from the main XBMC interface and you will be taken a Ubuntu Linux login prompt. Type in the username and password that you specified during the initial XBMC setup.
Once logged in type “sudo nano /etc/default/grub”. You may be prompted for your password again.How to edit the Grub defaults on XBMCBuntu
Use the cursor keys to move down to the line which contains: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash “
Add the text “i915.i915_enable_rc6=0″ within the speech marks, so it should look exactly like this:Changing Grub defaults to stop XBMC from hanging on startup.
Press CTRL-X (to save the file)
Press Y (To confirm that you want to save your changes)
You will now drop back to a prompt. Enter the command “sudo update-grub” (you may be prompted for your password again)
Now type “sudo reboot now” – it will now reboot and should boot directly into XBMC without any further issues!
.....worked for my q190, might work for the NUC

(2013-10-19, 18:44)spencers Wrote: This little NUC isn't liking Win8.1 very well.

edit: If you are running Win8 and update to 8.1, it looks like drivers will have to be reinstalled.
LAN defaulted to a Windows driver, as did Graphics. Intel's download page contains new drivers. However, I still cannot access the NUC from another computer via VNC, RDP, or even ping. Even with built-in firewall turned completely off. The NUC talks to the network and internet just fine.

Strongly urge against upgrading. Luckily I have an acronis image of the NUC from a week or two ago.

(2013-10-19, 22:03)Bryman31 Wrote: hi guys........COMPLETELY NEW to htpc, so im here to gain as much knowledge as possible.......

im wanting to try the NUC. ive already got all my parts written down, i was just needing some advice on what you all use for storage. i have no idea how to setup a network so i was thinking just getting a few WD Red drives and getting a JBOD box and just putting the two together side by side.

what have you all seen or used comfortably for a JBOD box? im gonna need at least 3 HDD's to start, (i have about 1200 dvd's and about 30 blu-ray's) i was eying THIS for my drives but i thought id ask here before i pull the trigger......


thanks for your help and info

(2013-10-19, 21:28)nickr Wrote: You broke rule 1 of htpc management: if it ain't broke, don't fix it!