Acer CA24V Chromebase

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Hi All,

Our company has a number of 2016 Acer Chromebase CA24V models with HWID: BUDDY D25-A3-N5I-A9V

They all display “OS is missing or damaged / no bootable kernel found” and none of the recovery images i create from chromebook recovery utility works.

Instead of e-waste we would like to repurpose these machines.

If i reset with the recovery pinhole and crtl + d OS verification is turned off but booting from external media (USB/SD) has not been enabled. The restart does not boot into a setup wizard.

These have all been deprovisioned in google admin.

Questions;

How do i access the full Linux terminal to enable USB (ctrl + alt + T switches the device from OS verification OFF back to Chrome OS is missing)

Can anybody point me to a version of ChromeOS that works? Happy to install any version of ChromeOS or windows and the steps specific to this model?

How do i access the BIOS?

We have about 20 of these with the exact same issue so i fail to accept that its hardware failures.

Any help would be appreciated.

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edit to add: normal recovery method with all devices ends with “an unexpected error has occurred” message

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these devices are far past EOL, there’s no reason to try and run stock ChromeOS on them. Treat them as bricked, flash my custom firmware using a ch341a USB programmer, then install Linux or ChromeOS Flex (Flex will require using a USB/BT audio device, built-in speakers/mic/HP jack will not work)

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ill attempt that thank you