"Official" ASRock ION 330 nettop thread - Page 9

I have Onkyo TX-SR606 and ION 330HD BD. I there any way to pass Dolby TrueHD direct to the Onkyo? I tried using shark007 codecs but it didn't work.

Hi,
I've owned a 330 for a couple of years now and must say I've been happy with it.
6 months ago the DVD stopped working which I just put up with until my family are saying they want to play DVD's (we don't own any BD).
I just want to know what spec of DVD to buy?
Is it SATA or IDE?
Can I just buy anything that says slimline?
Is it 2.5" or 3.5"?

Thanks in advance
Regards
Nigel

Hi Nigel,

It's SATA. It's very rare to find computers that are 2 years old with IDE in them. Also, you're right in that you need to find a slimline DVD reader. I would look at the measurements of your current slimline DVD drive and compare it with ones online. The key is the height and width if you really want to be certain, or just bring the drive with you to the computer store.

Good luck.

I know this is an old thread but it seems the most appropriate.

My ION 330 is coming up on 3 years old. The HDD has died, no problem easily replaced, however I can't get it to boot off a Ubuntu or XBMCbuntu iso burned to CD. It won't read the disk I'm sure I built it from in the first place either

The CD was written on a win7 machine. Both the win7 and an old XP box can boot off that disk. The ION happily boots off an old XP install disk so I know the drive is actually working.

Figuring perhaps it was just where it was written and where it was read drive incompatabilites I wrote it agan from a different machine and still no luck.

The message is "Reboot and select proper boot device or Insert Boot media in selected boot device and press any key". It seems to not be seeing the CD as a boot disk - it is definitely trying to read the CD.

Any ideas?

Hi Essay2,

I have the same model Ion 330 and I have successfully installed XBMCbuntu on it. However, I used the boot from USB option to do it. Perhaps you could try to install it this way, as a workaround?

Thanks, I'll give that a try in the morning.

It's a bit weird how the XP Install disk works but the Ubuntu one I used last time no longer does, nor a new one.

Thanks dhomas, that worked.

The installer font was so small as to sometimes be illegible on our HD TV, did you see that?

All went well except after install it didn't actually restart and had to power cycle. So much simpler than last time (2009) in how audio (including digital surround passthrough) and video all worked perfectly out of the box. I only had to adjust the overscan.