2017-02-22, 02:12
(2017-02-19, 02:02)Matt Devo Wrote:(2017-02-19, 00:33)SandmanUT Wrote: Well..waded in and got as far as the UEFI flash.
From Ubuntu 16 on a stick, all went well, made it to the end and chose "P" to power down while I went to make a Steam install stick. When I came back and restarted, it powers up but there is now no video output. Tried it with hdmi, with the DP, two different monitors, with a boot disk in, without, steam, ubuntu...just blackness. No prompt, no response to any keys.
Thought I'd stop right there before doing any additional damage and check on thoughts here. A reminder that the box is the Asus M004U, it's got 4 gigs of ram in, a wired keyboard and mouse and wired net connection. I ran the firmware utility script as outlined on your site and it looked like it did everything it was supposed to do..while I was using the terminal from Ubuntu.
** Additional info: I used the Full rom (3) option and created a backup on a separate usb stick. It was running OpenElec and Kodi under a dual boot with ChromeOS using your script until today.
some users have reported video output/handshaking issues after flashing/before an OS is installed. I'd give it a try with another HDMI cable / on a different display if you can. I can count on one hand (with digits to spare) the number of boxes actually bricked when flashing firmware over the past ~3 years
Well, you were right about it not being bricked. When I took it to a monitor (instead of the 2 tvs in that room) I was able to get into and install the OS, even using the same hdmi cable that wasn't in a working scenario. I finally got SteamOS all configured and Kodi loaded into it, etc, but when I moved it back to the original room, no video on my older plasma (same HDMI cable from working) and still no output on the dp (via dp-hdmi) that were both working with openelec/chromeos/your script.
What's missing to make these handshakes work again?
