I could not get my Chromebook Pixel to connect. It was working at the coffee shop and then it would not connect at home. I tried everything.
I am posting from the Pixel so I did locate a fix. There is a reset option that sets everything back to the “factory settings”. It is one of those multi-key (use two hands and hold all down) functions – Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R. It is called a Power Wash.
You do start from scratch, but this is not a big deal because the Pixel is really just a browser anyway. Once, I identified myself to Google, my apps gradually were downloaded again.
This experience made me nervous and the files I had saved were gone on the device were gone (no big deal), but it was nice to see well the system recovered. If there is a lesson here, it is likely that there is a lot of useful information on the Internet. Do not panic.