Beelink Mini PC Question

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So I picked up one of these units from Amazon:

I’m using it as a multi-purpose device, as a Media Center connected onto my USB storage devices and as a light Steam gaming machine.

Also since I’ve been watching a fair bit of ETA Prime, as an emulation station.

So I may have found a design flaw but I’m further testing this out and wondering if anybody has seen something similar.

So you can adjust the Windows 10 Power management to be low power or balanced or high performance, I left the setting at balanced.

Since it comes pre-installed with Windows 11 Pro, I’m using this and installed my favorite transcoding app named Tencoder, it’s old and has not been updated for quite some time but its free and still works fine for my needs.

I had installed it on this machine and was processing/upsampling quite a few media files to 1080p

At some point I found I could no longer connect to the computer and had to power on my TV to view the video output, it was in the CMOS/BIOS screen.

So checking around and not finding anything specific I exited the BIOS and tried to boot into Windows, this failed.

Going into the BIOS I then checked the SSD storage, the extra SATA SSD was showing up but not the pre-installed nVME SSD :frowning:

I was thinking it was dead for some reason and was checking for submitting an RMA but decided to unplug the AC adapter for about 15 ~ 20 minutes.

This worked and allowed the machine to boot up properly and after running a scandisk I could not find any errors.

So I’m wondering IF the thermals of this device or something else on the device as a whole got too hot/warm and caused a shut down of the machine ?

Any ideas on this one and would event viewer have even caught and logged this ?

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What brand is the NVMe SSD? The whole thing looks pretty chinesium so I would bet its a low quality one

If it were my system I would buy my own quality M.2 SSD and just swap it. I would also HIGHLY suggest you completely wipe the drive and install Windows 10 or 11 yourself, and not use a pre-installed OS. There is no telling what has been messed with on there

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Don’t own a Beelink Ryzen, what I can say is you need to be careful about the power usage between the SSDs more so than the temps. Even though I have a low-end Beelink mini PC, I learned if you’re doing a write intensive task between the main SSD & 2nd drive for a sustained amount of time it’ll randomly reboot… mine couldn’t see the boot SSD, it got stuck in Netboot.

In my usage I couldn’t blame thermals as I wasn’t pushing the CPU, if I recall my mini PC was running for ~7 days.

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Thanks for the feedback, I was wondering if maybe the Tencoder app was just eating a lot of power hence why it rebooted.

So now I’m running tencoder on both my Threadripper WS and my 5800x gaming rig and only connecting to the shared device connected onto the Beelink unit.

See if this happens again, my guess is it will be fine.

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