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Slightly off the wall thought . . . based on an entirely different scenario, but just conceivably might be relevant here . . . I have an Aeotec Z-Wave controller running on a Raspberry Pi - but if you plug it into the Raspberry Pi directly it won't work - you have to put an external USB hub between the two to get it to function. The problem apparently is that the Aeotec device doesn't accurately follow the USB 3 power protocols - but the Raspberry Pi does - so when plugged direct, the Raspberry Pi correctly detects that something isn't doing what it should and shuts off the power - the external hub just supplies power pretty much regardless and everything works fine. So it is the Aeotec USB device that is at fault, not the Pi. I'd also vaguely been aware for a while that some USB Ethernet adapters worked when PXE booting other (non-Geobook) laptops though some occasionally didn't, but never really thought about it much. Is it possible that it is some of the USB Ethernet adapters that are actually the problem - and some laptops notice and fail to boot / recognise them - and some laptops don't care and let them work anyway? I've no particular evidence one way or the other on this, but might it be worth investigating?

We've got 5 of these GeoBook 1Es . . . one of which has died. No response to anything at all, no power LED coming on, nothing on the screen, totally D E A D. Power supply looks good - 12V coming out of it no problem. And when plugged into the GeoBook, the area at the top left of the keyboard starts getting warm as though SOMETHING is doing SOMETHING inside. I've tried leaving it to charge for quite a long time . . . then tried leaving it to discharge on its own . . . or with a weight on the power button to see if that forced it to discharge (as I've had other devices where that drained the battery fairly effectively, which then reset the BIOS / UEFI) . . . but none of these had any effect on bringing it to life. Anybody got any ideas of anything else to try that might resurrect it? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I've just seen your post from November 2015 about Energy_Dashboard_Setup. Do you still have a copy of the software? If so, I'd be interested in obtaining a copy as we have one of these gizmos installed in the school but, somewhere along the way, the software got lost. If necessary I can set up somewhere where you can upload it if you can't email it to me (zip file). Many thanks, David.