[Matt Devo]

I'm currently using a Asus Chromebox and OpenElec 5.0.8. I usually have 2x 2TB my passport hard drives (usb powered) plugged in, and everything boots fine.
I recently swapped out for a 6TB MyBook (outlet powered), and the Chromebox freezes at the boot menu. It's RIGHT before it asks to hit ESC for boot list. Just a black screen with the info line at the top (SeaBIOS (version 20140405_201740-john-lewis.) . If I reset the box, it works fine. If I reset the box 100 other times, it's fine. However, if I wait for 2 minutes and boot back up, it freezes. It's almost like it's trying to load the box, but it hasn't woken up yet.

So, how would I remedy this? I tried to set boot priority, but it already defaults and only shows the internal Chromebox. Is there a way to disable to Bios PreBoot authentication? Is there an updated BIOS that fixes this?

Or, am I just way off?

**I also did notice that the Chromebox sometimes randomly mounts and dismounts the hard drive as well. Related issue? If not, suggestions?

Thanks a ton!
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I just tested this with a SUSPEND (keeping the box kinda live), and it still froze on boot.
**I also tried different cables..and a much longer one to maybe delay the boot a tiny bit. All freezes.

unfortunately, I really can't provide support for what are potentially firmware-related issues when you're using someone else's custom firmware. If you upgrade to mine (which is 1.5yrs newer than the one you are running) then I can try to help, but there's not much that either John Lewis or I can do if your drive takes longer to respond to initialization on cold boot than the USB spec says it should.