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Why are you resetting it?
I also have 2 western digital external 2TB attached. I DID notice if I remove or add one, it will def freeze within a bit of time afterward.
Also, both drives are the same. I noticed on my PC, I didn't assign static drive letters, which sometimes impacts them being recognized at the same time on the PC. However, is that causing more freeze on the Chromebox? I wouldn't assume so, because they are both being read and other people are having freeze issues when navigating as well.
Again, it's not often. This is the 1st I've had it in 4 days, but I've reset my box 3 times tonight.
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Hey guys, I've had my Chromebox set up with OpenElec for about a week now, and am 100% happy with performance and experience, with one caveat that I'd like to inquire about. I had imagined this to be an "always on" box, but it seems that the wifi connection to my router goes "idle" after a while (this is the status reported on the Connection page, and the device loses it's IP. I've got the "automatically connect" checkbox checked in the properties of the connection, but it doesn't automatically connect, and in fact needs me to re-type the password each time. I haven't done proper testing on it, but it seems that about 50% of the time when booting, if upon the last shutdown the connection had been active then it will connect properly, but if it had gone idle then I'd most likely need to manually connect again. Anybody else having this experience, or have suggestions to remediate?
Thanks!
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2014-05-19, 04:23
(This post was last modified: 2014-05-19, 04:32 by speedbal.)
For those curious about how OpenELEC runs on the Asus Chromebox M004U (179$ version), Here is a short youtube video. Should give you an idea of what the system is capable of...
This includes a new SeaBIOS/Coreboot tweak from Matt. Boot time is extremely fast.
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So for those that have this box, I understand that S3 suspend/resune doesn't work yet. So either you have it on all the time, or boot it each time. But the unit is only using ~5w when on and idle?
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Could the freezes be a RAM issue? I only have the 2 GB that came with the box...
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I don't think it's the RAM. Can anyone else verify? I also have stick RAM only. If the freezing would end, this would be perfect.
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I also have the 2gb ram the box came with and I have the freezing issue, don't have other ram stick to test eather
My XBMC/Kodi folder: addons, skins, addon/menu backgrounds & more
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Wow this is awesome, thanks for sharing. I just picked up the 2GB version to replace my RPi.