I had a completely dead Chromebook. Googling dead Chromebooks I came across a fix. Hold down the refresh button(4th button from the left on the top) and then press the power button. This does a hard reset of the computer without deleting any files. I think I glitched the computer by plugging in a camera into the USB port.
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Lucky escape.
Also, the Chromebook comes with a Recovery Utility you can burn to a 4Gb USB tab. Also, you can install Chromebook Recovery Utility on any machine with Google Chrome installed and create the USB Recovery using the app. You just need to know the specific model of the machine, like the Acer Chromebook `5 CB3-532 I picked up recently. (ProTip: $139 at NewEgg right now, refurbed!).
Other folks are using this utility to try to install images on other machines, like: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-turn-an-old-laptop-into-a-chro...
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Lucky escape.
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2017, at 08:12 AM, Michael Madigan wrote:
I had a completely dead Chromebook. Googling dead Chromebooks I came across a fix. Hold down the refresh button(4th button from the left on the top) and then press the power button. This does a hard reset of the computer without deleting any files. I think I glitched the computer by plugging in a camera into the USB port.
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