Thanks to all of you for helping with the issues I had with my AZBox Elite!
Only booted to loading screen and would not go any further.
Happy to say I'm up and running!!

Re-read a lot of information again and ended up using a older patch file. Booted right from the USB this time. Will update slowly to the newest firmware as suggested. Enjoying it right now. Had an old version (0.9.996) firmware that came with the stb.
Don't have the version in front of me I loaded but found it after again reading AZBox review posts.
I think I re-seated every connection in the box a few times.
Anyway, had to take a break and let the remote cool off and say thanks!