[mythtv-users] Warning: Do not get Kaby Lake NUC boxes

[Jon Heizer]

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Justin Moore <justin.nonwork at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I recently got a NUC7i3BNK for my basement, to go with two other older
> NUCs in my house. These older NUCs have worked well as MythTV frontends,
> and are running v29 with no issues.
>
> The NUC7i3BNK has been a dumpster fire, though.
>
> 1) HD Audio pass-through is a known issue, although posts on the Intel
> community board seemed to indicate that this has been solved. It has not.
>
> 2) Neither the BIOS nor dmidecode will tell you the current version of the
> HDMI firmware. You need to install and run the updater in order to figure
> out if you need to run the updater.
>
> 3) If you want to update the HDMI firmware, to test and see if it fixes
> your problem, you need to
> a) Put a FULL INSTALL of Win10 on your system (see: https://communities.
> intel.com/thread/113959 comment 4). The Windows rescue disc won't work,
> and will just give you "this application is not compatible with this
> version of Windows", even though the installer is for 64-bit Win10 and the
> rescue image is from 64-bit Win10; and
> b) Connect an HDMI 2.0-compatible device.
> [ Got that? A firmware update requires a full install of Windows 10 and
> that you go buy an HDMI 2.0 device. ]
>
> 4) Even after the HDMI firmware update, a number of HD audio codecs won't
> pass through.
> See the same thread, further down: https://communities.intel.com/
> message/475807#475807
>
> This may be fixed eventually, but even in 2018 Intel struggles with modern
> concepts like "OS-agnostic firmware updater" and "surround sound".
>
> (Even after this rant I will be *thrilled* if someone pops up and says
> "No, you idiot, you're wrong, here's how you get it to work ...")
>
> -justin, serving as a warning to others ...
>
> _______________________________________________



Yeah, I bought a ASRock J4205-ITX (basically a NUC motherbard) after
getting a new 4k TV and finally a receiver than can handle the HD codecs.
Decided it was time to replace the atom ion FE.  I've been sitting on just
stereo and haven't wanted to deal with installing Win 10 to even attempt
fixing it.  I didn't realize everything was a train wreck still.  Sucks.

Jon
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