Moreover, I do not really want to drill holes on the tvbox's housing. And in case I did not mention it earlier, it also has a small square ~8*8cm steel plate (2-3mm thick) mounted under its top so as to weight more. Removing that will probably make it 90% lighter
They gave you a useless metal block instead of a reset button. Marketing geniuses... 
You just need one hole to reach the button. Nobody will see. 
Not sure where to even begin to troubleshoot where my issue is...any help greatly appreciated.
As for the reset button addition, I am still waiting for the neighbor to buy me a button and I will then give him the tvbox to solder it.
Ask for a small round button. So you can drill a hole with that size, and glue it on from inside the case.
No big deal, you just wanted to help. LE only accepts one user on SSH, which is root. So there is only one home directory.
That's not an RTL chip number though. Try Googling..
Right, with the ETV ending it should be your guess.
chewitt I'm reading RTL8129ETQ. Just in case you have extra offers for this.
Where do you mean by "on top"?
Upper side of the PCB (where the chips are).
Yep, PCB tracks on top seem to proof my theory. You can solder now. 
Second pic has great quality. Can you do the same from the other side? It might help to identify soldering points.
PS: It's probably not necessary to make another pic. It seems like it has no "reset" label anyway. The three soldering points from your tagged pic seem to be right, because two of them are grounded (see backside). So the upper one (on the tagged pic), and one of the others should be right.
Better pics from both sides would help. Then we could see all chip labels, and the PCB label of the reset button. That's essential.
By the way where I can find some minimum hw requirements for v11?
That doesn't exist, because requirements depend on used codecs. We don't set the most demanding codecs as minimum for hw.
The neighbor literally destroyed all 4 feet instead of opening small holes on them. Now the tvbox has no feet at all
I think he had to do that to search for hidden screws. Feet are easy to replace (hardware store), compared to a case.
Let's wait for chewitt now. Thanks for the pic.
The alternative is a clear picture of the board to see the SDIO module markings.
jim_p Please open your box, and do that. It's page two, and we are still digging in the dung. We need the labels of each chip.
Chances to boot are better with a legacy image.
You have to use LEs generic-legacy variant, because you have an Nvidia graphics card.
Any idea what's wrong? I'm running the 10.95.0 version so it should be pretty new.
3D doesn't work on LE 10+. Latest working version is LE 9.2.8. No ETA for 3D updates on LE 10+.
p.s. thread title changed because you have done clean install from SD card and are not technically updating from CE; which is something I have no interest in trying to support with users as too much has changed and too much stuff breaks.
Thread title was my baby, but it's OK 
. I've separated those two posts from another thread.
