Got my foxconn nt 330i, now what?

strandedhuman Wrote:Might be able to get my hands on a "foxconn nt330i" with 2 gigs of ram and a 60gig OCZ Vertex SSD w/windows 7 installed for $340.

Does this sound like a deal or am I getting ripped off?

Thank you!

Strandedhuman!

Breaking down the price (off the top of my head I'm on my mobile)

- Foxconn ~$170-180 (depending on sale price)
- 2 gigs ram ~$35
- windows 7 (do you get a key?) ~depends on version
- 60gb vertex ~$80?

This new or used?

Not sure if I get a key or not. I'll have to ask. It's used...

Has anyone modded the fan?

Considering it, but haven't found a definite plan quite yet.

Though of strapping on a huge video card passive heatsink, but the screw holes are offset a bit ...

0.0 - Preface:

Better late than never.... =)

Quote:Commands to be typed will be within Quotes

1.0 - My Hardware:
- Foxconn NT-330I-A-B-NA-A NVIDIA ION 1 x 200Pin NVIDIA ION Black Barebone System
(http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.asp...6856119016)
- OCZ Onyx Series Indilinx 32GB 2.5IN SATA2 SSD
(http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=51614)
- Corsair VS2GSDS800D2 PC2-6400 2GB 1X2GB DDR2-800 200PIN SODIMM
(http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=37152)
- Rosewill WMC Remote control/Rcvr RRC-127 for Win 7
(http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.asp...6880101003)
- Logitech diNovo Edge 2-Tone Bluetooth Wireless Mini Keyboard
(http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.asp...6823126008)
- Secondary PC running Win7
- Kingston Datatraveler 102 - 8GB USB Flash Drive
(http://pricecanada.com/click.php?id=3778551)

2.0 - My Software:

- XBMCFreak Maverick v2
(http://www.xbmcfreak.nl/en/xbmcfreak-liv...verick-v2/)
- UNetbootin
(http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)
- Foxconn NT-330I BIOS (Beta) - 943F1P07.ROM
(http://www.multiupload.com/RFUKPFQGPU) *Use at own risk, Beta software*

3.0 - Preparation:

- Optional: Flash BIOS to latest Beta .ROM for SATA AHCI and fixed Quiet Mode Boot Logo
- Install UNetbootin on secondary PC
- Make bootable USB drive from .ISO
- Make sure Foxconn BIOS set to boot USB drive first
- Plug into a wired network

4.0 - Basic Install Process:

- Boot from USB Drive
- Select: Install XBMCLive
- Select: English
- Select: Canada or United States
- Select: Guided - use entire disk
- Hit Enter
- Hit Left Arrow then Enter
...Wait at a blue screen while it formats
- Choose a Name: xbmc
- Choose a Username: xbmc
- Choose a Password: ____
- Verify Password: ____
- (Optional) Verify a weak Password
...Wait while installation finishes
- Hit Enter
- Remove USB Drive after system shuts down
- Turn system on, XBMC should boot up

5.0 - Fix Ethernet (If no network was plugged in during install) (Optional)

- Hit: Ctrl+Alt+F2
- Enter your Username
- Enter your Password
- Edit the network adapters:

Quote:sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

- Enter your Password
- Add to the end (if it doesn't already exist):

Quote:auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

- Hit Ctrl+X, Y, Enter to save
- Restart network adapters:

Quote:sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

...[OK]'s should appear beside enabled network adapters
- Reboot:

Quote:sudo reboot

6.0 - WPA2-Personal Wifi setup (Optional)

- Hit: Ctrl+Alt+F2
- Enter your Username
- Enter your Password
- Update the repos?:

Quote:sudo apt-get update

- Enter your Password
...Wait
- Find out the Wifi_SSID_For_Your_Network and the Wifi_Password_For_Your_Network and use them in the following:
- Encrypt your Wifi_Password:

Quote:wpa_passphrase Wifi_SSID_For_Your_Network Wifi_Password_For_Your_Network

- Write down the long string after psk=, (easy to write 8 rows of 8 characters, 64 total), these will be the The_64_Characters_To_Write_Down
- Edit network adapters:

Quote:sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

- (Optional) If using wifi-only remove the two eth0 lines
- Add to the end:

Quote:auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid Wifi_SSID_For_Your_Network
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-proto RSN
wpa-pairwise TKIP
wpa-group TKIP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk The_64_Characters_To_Write_Down

- Hit Ctrl+X, Y, Enter to save
- Restart network adapters:

Quote:sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

...[OK]'s should appear beside enabled network adapters
- Reboot:

Quote:sudo reboot

7.0 Fix Suspend Bugs:

- Inside XBMC go to System, System, Power Saving
- In the Shutdown Function option select: Suspend
- Hit: Ctrl+Alt+F2
- Enter your Username
- Enter your Password
- Reconfigure lirc:

Quote:sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc

- Enter your Password
- Select: Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)
- Select: Microsoft Windows Media Center V2 (usb) : Direct TV Receiver
...[OK]'s should appear
- Edit the grub:

Quote:sudo nano /etc/default/grub

- Find the line at the bottom: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="blah blah blah"
- Add to the end of that line the bolded text:

Quote:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="blah blah blah usbcore.autosuspend=-1"

- Hit Ctrl+X, Y, Enter to save
- Update the grub:

Quote:sudo update-grub

- List wakeup triggers:

Quote:cat /proc/acpi/wakeup

- We are going to set USB0 to wakeup (USB0 is on the back at the bottom beside the white DVI port, plug your IR Receiver there)
- Edit: /etc/rc.local:

Quote:sudo nano /etc/rc.local

- Add to the bottom right above "exit 0":

Quote:echo "USB0" > /proc/acpi/wakeup

- Hit Ctrl+X, Y, Enter to save
- List the USB devices:

Quote:lsusb

- Find your IR Receiver
- Write down the ####:#### after ID (Mine was 1784:0011, if different change below appropriately)
- Make a new script:

Quote:sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/90-mcewakeup.rules

- Add in one line:

Quote:SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1784", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0011" RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo enabled > /sys$env{DEVPATH}/../power/wakeup'"

- Hit Ctrl+X, Y, Enter to save
- Set permissions:

Quote:sudo chmod 755 /etc/udev/rules.d/90-mcewakeup.rules

- Reboot:

Quote:sudo reboot

- Cross fingers and try the Power On/Off button on your remote!

@Pondering

Thanks for posting your guide! I had everything working EXCEPT for usb wake (Turns out it was the bios. I was on 943F1P06), and your guide got everything running.

Although this comes on the heels of a new XBMCFreak release:

http://www.xbmcfreak.nl/en/xbmcfreak-10-...livecd-v2/

- Kernel 2.6.38-7-generic
- Built-in ASRock remote drivers
- The Wonder Patch to improve desktop experience
- Nvidia 260.19.29 drivers
- Fix auto enabling of usb wakeup feature
- Fix /etc/xbmc/hostname otherwise default to XBMCLive
- Double click remote fix
- Cleaned up double dir under /var/

Maybe they've done the hard lifting for us! I haven't checked this release out yet...might make this guide obsolete!

Hrm.. good to know. I'm still on vanilla Dharma live, so it doesn't really affect me directly until I try migrating over.

Either way, unless they're somehow managing to flash bios for the NT-330i in place, your guide still did the trick

Thanks again!

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!

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.

flexgrip Wrote: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.

Try the OpenELEC version of XMBC, I have it on my nt330i, and while I have had it crash, it happens rarely. It is all pre built for you, you just need to put it on a USB stick and boot, then install it on your drive or another USB stick. By rare I mean maybe 1 once a week with heavy usage, and that is typicality a hang when I am trying to access a stream off the internet from something like the livestream addon, which I think must be some kind of bad data crashing a codec, but never in the way you outline. I am using SMB share for most of my content access, about 6TB worth, that if very solid.