I thought powering on is related to the BIOS and not hardware drivers? My knowledge is very basic but I can tell you that the IR works fine once you get into Linux or OPENELEC and XBMC, or whatever non-Windows based OS you use (if you know what you are doing). The problem is being able to power on this box. And to be honest, this is the MOST important feature for most people.
WORK AROUND
Many have said that you can fix the power on issue by: clearing the CMOS by disassembling the unit and pulling out the battery, installing windows, installing the Intel CIR driver and THEN installing OPENELEC or whatever other LINUS/UBUNTU software over the windows install can fix the "power on" issue on a non-windows based OS... but only for a time. Any tinkering in the BIOS causes the machine to forget to accept data from an IR blast to power on and you have to repeat the asinine process above. I'm not even going to try this. I already had Windows 7 installed on my device. The power on worked after some tinkering in Windows and the BIOS but that is not what I want on my machine. I'm sticking with OPENELEC.
BIOS
First of all version 0023, 0024 and 0025 are complete F-up's. The BIOS freezes ALL-THE-TIME. I've since updated to the 4025 beta BIOS and it didn't fix anything for me besides the fact the the screen resolution is back to what it was in 0024 (on my TV monitor 0025 BIOS had the screen like 100 pixels by 200 pixels, fun to work in, anyway...). I'm sure the beta BIOS probably fixed some of the HDMI, USB, AUDIO/VIDEO issues that others were having but I haven't had any of those problems. I just want it to power on from an off state, actually any state would be great. Also, on both this machine and the NUC that I returned, the time does not save. Each time I boot into the BIOS my time is different so I correct it often... to no avail. You can take your visual BIOS and shove it where ever you want but I am done dealing with it.
I am on my second NUC D54250WYKH1 model and I think it's about time that you hire someone who can actually fix these issues. I'm about to return my second one. Unbelievable.
