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No problem! Glad it helped!
A note for flashing the BIOS: I found I was missing features/options until I hit 'Default Settings' (on the last page if memory serves). Upon reboot the wake features and AHCI options appeared. That had me stumped for a good while!
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Hello,
I have had my foxconn for a long time. I've run different variations in Ubuntu, opensuse, xbmcfreak, and xbmc. 32bit or 64bit.
My problem is, with any of those combinations, I get freezing in xbmc. Usually it happens in the menus. I will be scrolling through the list of TV shows or something, and the screen will get artifacts and the whole thing freezes up.
I then will SSH into it and notice that xbmc is running at 100% cpu. If I kill xbmc and restart it it will get to the menu and instantly freeze again. This time without any keyboard input.
In the logs, right before the freeze, I see some error about dbus. Doesn't really say exactly what the error is though.
The only way I can get around any of this is to use upnp to connect to my network shares. If I connect to them via nfs, samba, http, or ssh, it freezes with the same dbus issue.
This happens in ALL variations of ubuntu. I've tried xbmc live, ubuntu core server + X + xbmc... 32bit/64bit everything! Now that I run upnp it is usable for now. But I am not really fond of upnp because I can't play any of the old iso's I have over upnp.
Anyone else have this problem? I would absolutely just love to figure this one out because I really like the size, noise, and playback on this thing. Really smooth and simple. I just hate this underlying issue where the wrong kind of network connections to my shares will cause it to lock up.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I have tried openelec. It had some issue with my TV's modelines and I decided to just scrap it because I think it was also freezing as well. Not really sure what difference openelec would make considering opensuse and ubuntu both have the issue.
I cannot believe that I am the only person with an nt330i thats had this problem. I have tried installing to a thumb drive, internal hard drive, and even had newegg replace it with a new one, just in case there was a hardware issue.
I've had the thing well over a year now. It continues to F up throughout all of the ubuntu updates. As I said, the only way to keep it running is by using upnp, which has its limitations.
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Just tossed the openelec option as I knew it was a known working configuration of linux running xbmc, on the nt330i. openelec is its own from scratch linux build, it is not build under a general distribution of linux like ubuntu so I thought if your problem was with the distributions it it might solve your problem, like your comment about ubuntu update failings, but if it hardware related, it likely wont. like I said I have all kinds of SMB mounts that I play my content over on my nt330i with out issues. if there is anything else I can tell you about my setup let me know.
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i have my xbmc live box on my nt330i, one thing that bugs me is that i rarely use it so I unplug the device from my mains, and the device does not have an internal battery to rememebr the cmos settins so I have to get it to reset the setting each time.. This is annoying.
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is it possible to have a link to download the 943F1P07 bios?
the link provided above is expired, thank you...