(2015-12-23, 22:46)Matt Devo Wrote: are you sure you didn't flash the standalone firmware at some point? If powering on the box with the recovery button pressed (via paperclip) doesn't bring you to the recovery screen, then you have the standalone firmware installed. But again, not sure what you're trying to do exactly, other than update for the sake of having the latest

(2015-12-25, 21:34)Boulder Wrote: Nope, I have a dual boot setup and I've used the Update Legacy BIOS option.

And yes, "update to have the latest version"

By the way, would it be possible to have the Chromebox power button put the device into standby mode if pushed just once?

(2015-12-26, 23:28)dudephatal Wrote: i did the standalone steps correctly but after rebooting and putting a ubuntu image on a usb from - https://www.distroshare.com/distros/get/72/. it just puts to this:

SeaBIOS (version rel-1.9.0-12gab2ea1a-20151220-MattDevo)

Press ESC for boot menu.

Booting from hard Disk...
early console in decompress_kernel
MASLR using RDRAND...

Decompressing Linux...Parsing ELF... Performing relocations...done
Booting the kernel.

i try pressing ESC but nothing happens. Anyone know what to do? i want to run ubuntu on my hp chromebox CB1-014

(2015-12-26, 22:02)Boulder Wrote: Is the video encoded with VC-1? If so, you could try disabling hardware accelerated decoding of VC-1.

(2015-12-20, 21:06)dnko Wrote: this might be a simple question but i'd appreciate your help.
I picked up an ASUS Chromebox last week. The celerion cn60 and started to the the standalone install.
i got the:
'Press ESC for boot menu'
and pressed ESC but no joy.

so i finally found another keyboard that activates when the Chromebox is turned on but now i have nothing on the display - a black screen.
i take out the usb disk and same thing.
tried multiple thumb drives with same response.
I'm using a HDMI to VGA adapter and wondering if that could be the problem.
was thinking of getting a displayport to vga and try again.

your thoughts please.

(2015-12-27, 04:11)RockDawg Wrote: I never payed attention, but the one video I know that did it, turns out is VC-1. I turned off hardware acceleration for VC-1 like you suggested and it's not there in the scene I remember seeing it. I don't have the time to check more right now but it looks like it's fixed. Thanks! What causes the chromebox to do that while my Windows desktop is fine with that enabled?

(2015-12-27, 17:52)lisat3 Wrote: HELP!! I am an EXTREME newbie here.. I was trying to set up kodi on my husband's chromebox and I messed up. I did not reset to factory before going through the process and now the box doesn't work. I have tried resetting to factory since, and still nothing. The chromebox is stuck on a loop of "press esc for boot..." then flashes to a white page with the chrome logo in the middle and then back to the "press esc" screen... 0

(2015-12-29, 05:59)jsp1 Wrote: Hello Matt,

Is it possible to keep the chromebox alive (without disabling auto suspend) as long as it is serving a file to a different client via smb.

As it is, if the suspend time comes and you are watching something from a second client, it will still go to sleep.

This is in addition to no apparent hard drive spindown on sleep. I am testing a possible solution for the spindown problem now. The suspend has me stumped.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.