[joenitro]

Hi all,

So, I've had my i5 Haswell NUC (D54250WYK), 60GB SSD, 8 gigs ram for a week. It's a lovely thing, apart from a few problems:

I cant F2 into BIOS at all with my (wired) HP USB keyboard :-( Tried the rear and front USB ports. Tried with NUC connected to my Denon 2113 AVR and also to my Panasonic Plasma (5 years old - TH-37PX70) same result - pressing F2 causes the NUC to hang completely, with only remedy being to power off and on again.
I CAN however, press F10 at POST to change the boot device and F7 to update BIOS (which I've done to the latest 022 version). Any ideas as it's proving to be rather frustrating now?!

Also, I've installed Windows 7 and XBMC(!). Boots up very fast and loaded my mysql library fine. All ok except that a lot of my (99% 720p h264 mkv) movies have a green band across the top of screen in the black bar area :-(
Tried with hardware acceleration on/off and also changing display refresh rate to match video etc to no avail).

I then tried the latest stable intel build of Openelec (running off a 16GB USB stick, just for testing purposes) with similar results and also the grey blacks problem :-(

Would I be better off trying Windows 8.1 instead or waiting for Gotham?
It's really annoying, as I've bought the NUC as an upgrade to my Apple TV2 which, although quite slow in the menus (the main reason for getting the NUC!!!) it mainly just, works!

Any ideas welcome and if I find something that DOES work, I'll inform this thread accordingly :-)

Me again!

So after more testing with my i5, I've now settled on Windows 8.1 as an OS (yeah I know, but I need to be able to use Teamviewer and it's working fine for me so far :-P ) and it's working really well so far. Boots straight into XBMC in about 15 seconds or so. No green bars on anything so far and also managed to get HD audio playing correctly after ensuring that the Realtek Audio drivers were installed. Now plays BD iso's with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-Master Audio perfectly :-)

One problem I do have is with the infared sensor. It's all recognised fine in Device manager and I've installed the Nuvoton CIR driver. But my MCE remote ( http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/media-centre-remote-n18hc ) wont work with it at all. If I use the supplied dongle though, it works fine. Any ideas?