I have some news.
I borrowed someone elses R3610, booted off the latest XBMCFreak CD (on USB) and it just worked without any issues at all - the killa sample, the 30GB Avatar rip.
Booted my R3610 using exactly the same USB stick - didn't work.
Checked all BIOS settings, only difference I could see was that his had an older version of the BIOS. So I created a USB DOS boot, saved his BIOS and downgraded mine to that same bios version. Booted XBMC... still didn't work.
Then I looked at his box, there are some differences. His R3610 has a manufactured date of 25 December 2009 (merry blinkin xmas) and mine was manufactured on the 23 April 2010. His had an atheros WLAN component, mine has something else... can't remember what.
So basically I think the new Revo's have something different about them.
I've noticed on this thread there are people that say it should just work... and there are those that have had problems and say it just doesn't work for high bit rate HD media... I wonder if those that have trouble have a more recently manufactured Revo
? :eek2: