Yup, I have the same disease! I almost bought a few myselfCan someone provide more detail on what to do with these units? I have 5 of these units that I purchased off of Ebay at a cheap price.
Yup, I have the same disease! I almost bought a few myselfCan someone provide more detail on what to do with these units? I have 5 of these units that I purchased off of Ebay at a cheap price.
Ok, I am compelled to purchase one too now! ...See what this forum does to us? I don't want to miss out on the potential fun & community learning opportunity. Is there an AA for tech surplus addicts?!?Yup, I have the same disease! I almost bought a few myself. ...Buy something with vague & time consuming potential, but no clear path forward or critical application. Lucky for both of us that this forum is full of really smart folks, with lots of ideas, and special skills to address the challenging parts (e.g. Fohdeesha is one of our forum's most gifted hacking geniuses, so I assume a lot of folks pressuring him, which he deftly balances with rest of his life & hobbies
. ...My major skill is draining the bank account & supporting second hand equipment economy - along with pursuing a few too many never finished projects. Great site (STH) & hobby here!
Let us know what you find out.I'll look through the BIOS and see if I can find that option. As for Windows once I coaxed it into updating and getting the drivers, the onboard video worked just fine. I dunno how it slipped my mind to do that, I only remembered when I sat down to ask the question!
I've got to fiddle with it a bit more, but once I installed the drivers for the Intel HD 4000 in Windows, it didn't seem to matter which setting I enabled (IGPU or PGS I think) the video output was working on both ports once the bios was completed. No luck on getting the BIOS on either (wasn't really expecting it) but my issue was just driver related. I installed Debian 11 without a DE, and with the IGPU set as the default I got Console Output on HDMI 1 without issues.Let us know what you find out.
All the units I have had dead CR2032 (backup) batteries and would reset the BIOS every power cycle.I got one of these units to play with also. Very powerful little boxes! I wanted to document a few things I've learned so far:
The UEFI BIOS seems buggy, but it works OK in "BIOS" mode with UEFI disabled. I did hunt around a bit to see if there was an updated image out there but I haven't found one yet.
- I was unable to reset the Administrator password and successfully login even after doing a factory restore, not sure why exactly
- The "Service" port is Ethernet and is connected to an internal switch of some sort
- The second gigabit RTL chip is also connected to the internal switch
- There are other devices on the board with IPs 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.4 that try to open up connections to 10.0.0.1 on TCP ports 49348 and 49350
- Ubuntu treats HDMI1 as the first screen, HDMI2 as the second screen, and the TS port as a third screen by default
- The HDMI ports appear as "always connected" and seem limited to 1920x1080 only
- ESXi v6.7 works fine once you add the NET55_R8 package
- Cannot seem to change the boot device in the BIOS, it always resets itself back to the built-in SSD. Temporary changes work to boot from other devices though
- I managed to get macOS Mojave running, using the TS only - HDMI ports not functional (yet?)
that would make sense, but it remembers all of the other settings OK only the boot device won't stick. not really an issue once you get an OS installed.All the units I have had dead CR2032 (backup) batteries and would reset the BIOS every power cycle.
Seems like EWF is enabled, so all changes you make are only changed in an ramdisk overlay. If you want to persist any changes you make runSo i have been messing with this for a while now with no luck. I dont have the touchscreen yet and i think thats holding me back. but if i could just get some help getting into safemode i think i can figure some more stuff out. Currently digging through the registry and editing things to see what crashes it and what does not. Was able to remove the spashscreen with this
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\crestsoft\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
removed
UtsUserMessage
C:\crestron\bin\UtsUserMessage.exe
UtsSplashScreen
c:\crestron\bin\UtsSplashScreen.exe
Was also able to change the login to administrator but with no change.
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\crestsoft\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
DefaultUsername changed from lyncroom to Administrator
shell changed from eshell.exe to C:\Windows\explorer.exe
ShellOrg changed from eshell.exe C:\Windows\explorer.exe
--------after booting they were auto changed back to eshell.exe
And have been digging through the .bat files to see what they are up to but if you change most of them it either does not boot at all or just goes to a blackscreen.
G:\Crestron\bin\RunLMR.bat to G:\Crestron\bin\RunLMRo.bat
boots still no keyboard or change.
Also was able to rename alot of the folders on the 4 partitions but again most would cause no boot or blackscreen. Some would reappear after renaming
Also tried using easybcd to edit the bcd on the drive and force it to safemode. Resulted in no boot.
EWFMGR.exe C: -COMMIT
Any chance you could strip the drivers for the touchscreen and other things? forgot to pull them off before i re installed.Seems like EWF is enabled, so all changes you make are only changed in an ramdisk overlay. If you want to persist any changes you make runEWFMGR.exe C: -COMMIT
I've been playing with the original disk image in a kvm VM and I'm trying to bring it out of kiosk mode (most of them seem to be Group Policies - gpedit.msc) to start playing with the custom drivers.
dism /Online /get-drivers /format:table