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The one AMD x86 box I got from them occasionally randomly segfaulted and would blackscreen and hang if left on on after anywhere from 45 minutes to a few hours. I read that it might be a driver issue in proxmox debian and tried running windows on it and had the same issue. Oddly memtest passed on it while running repeatedly for 3 days strait before shutting down unexpectedly.

Its kinda made me hesitant to trust any of these cheap minipcs ever again.

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I bought three of them for a Kubernetes cluster and it seems to work great for a few days and then constant black screens every few hours to few days. The most frustrating part is thinking I fixed it with a bios change or different software, but it keeps coming back. Never again.

Try disabling C states in the bios. My 5950x developed that issue, as did a friends 5600x.

Ive had very similar issues with my UM790 pro. I even RMA’ed it and the replacement ran into the same issue. It gets corrupted somehow if I leave it running overnight.

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