[trick420]

Well, so here's an update...

I came back into work this morning and set it all up again with the Displayport. It boots again and I have the same issues as yesterday. So, I connected both the display port AND the HDMI to my other T240 monitor... This time I put in the installation drive and booted and when I selected option 2, it booted, then switched video to HDMI to complete the installation. Now that I have OpenElec installed and configured, I rebooted the system without DisplayPort and blammo! It works! So I think I now have a functioning dedicated openelec box.

The TL;DR for this is - to install standalone, I had to connect both DisplayPort AND HDMI.

Weird.

Jeff

Weird indeed, but glad you got it working.

I have just purchased the Chrombox and am working on installing the standalone setup with Openelec. I have completed step 5 and then moved to step 6 created the stick... On the reboot all i get is a black screen. I have tried many monitors but no changes. I have tried the escape 2 option at so many different time but nothing is working.... what can i do at this point??

I figured it out would appear that moved the keyboard to the front USB and the install USB to the back and it worked... although maybe after 100 reboots i finally got the timing correct

now that you have OpenELEC installed, does it still give you no video (eg, no SeaBIOS text / boot menu text) before the OE splash screen? If so, it would be really helpful if you can extract a certain log for me. Hit me up on google chat/hangouts and I can walk you thru what I need

One other item of note: If I boot my Chromebox with no video connected at all, and then connect either HDMI or DisplayPort, I get no video and must reboot the unit.

Sounds like markcf105's issue is very similar to mine. Similar symptoms. Were you asking for a file from his machine or mine? When I boot now it jumps straight to the Openelec screen. I don't see the SeaBIOS text.