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Historically this was a classic problem when buying from abroad in the UK with VAT being collected by the UK courier company, especially the big ones that regularly handled international packages. They charged a flat fee, such as £10+VAT. The cheaper the item, then the worse the charge was...

I thought I'd mention that cwwk have managed to resurrect some -K purple boards in WHITE with N150. The purples have been out of stock for ages, except at some resellers. They'd been quoted as saying that it had been hard to source alder/twin lake cpus lately.

The chip that's getting hot is probably a JMB585 or the ASM1166 or similar. Essentially a PCIe to SATA controller. They're meant to be able to hit ~105c, but are expected to peak around 50-55c. As your seeing 70c on the outside it might be getting hotter internally. On the better boards...

The BKHD boards are said to prefer SK Hynex or Samsung DRAM. If you're using something else that might be a factor. I'd also recommend running some kind of temperature monitoring software. There's been cases where poor quality control could leave the cpu or sata controller overheating. It's...

This is interesting info, as it shows that the embedded chipset tended to keep the package at an active state even ten years before the N series emerged. So the problems people have getting the N series to approach their published test states & wattage are not really new. The difference is...

If you want cheap but less reliability then the various CWWK boards with embedded cpus would easily meet your needs. As discussed in several very long threads on here. They have weaknesses but only the Chinese boards have lots of sata or nvme, and low cost. From N100 to i5, and a few AMD...

Ahh yeah, the copper slug is just to adapt the surface mount cpu to the standard footprint. It also stops the normal cooler from crushing the chip. You really went big with that cooler though it is really good at missing the capacitors which some lower profile coolers clash with. At the other...

Traditionally there used to be a setting in the bios to allow booting without a keyboard. Though I can't guarantee that Chinese bioses and/or every os supports it. If you can't find a software fix I've found several situations where people solved it using an old school PS/2 keyboard -> usb...

* This is only an idea I've been building for a while. No actual testing. * Check the bios and card/driver settings. Look for anything related to "boot on lan" (or similar wake up, fast response settings). Disable it. My theory is that devices with wake up functionality (LAN, USB, etc) are...

The base BKHD website is bkipc.com Their about page is About us While cwwk is at cwwk.net and I think also run 1 (or 2) Ali shops. The resellers most often seen are topton/kingnovy on aliexpress. I've seen posts that reckon that those two are two sides of the same company. Their support...

The BKHD BK_ boards seem to be tuned to Samsung or Hynex. They really dislike Crucial. Lots of evidence in these threads. Conversely the CWWK CW_ boards love Crucial. The rarer MW_ boards give us less evidence.

What RAM brand & spec are you using? CWWK boards really like crucial. Other thought is psu. See kobold81 posts.

Interesting. I feel I've seen other posts (here or on reddit) where a quality psu struggled to drive an N100 type board. My hypothesis is that good high wattage supplies can be surprisingly bad at managing the low but fluctuating demand on an N100 type device. Even your new psu is so over...

I've often wondered about the real life pcie throughput. There's not a lot online that addresses that. My google-fu today turned up 2 things from an old-ish nvidea/melinox page. PCIe V1 & V2 had a 20% packet overhead, later is only 1.5%. And they also throw in a fudge factor of -1Gb/s. So...

There used to a method to unlock the advanced bios settings that worked on all BKHD boards. Search might find it. I think it was be in the bios and either "hit some function key" or "flip a dummy bios setting" then save & reboot.

There was a lot of talk on early units (both mini pc & itx) of the cpu die to copper shim/plate being too big a gap for everyday thermal paste. Quality paste helped but some were getting big gaps. Paste intends <= 0.2mm. Depending on the unit design some people fixed that with copper shims or...

It could be worth inspecting the board in the failing Horaco. Loose connectors seems possible (if there even are any). I'd lean towards failed capacitors, so really eyeball any electrolytics for bulging tops, etc. We have these things on 24/7 and it doesn't take long to age out super cheapo...

If its a green board labelled BKHD_ (or probably also MW_) then based on many threads I've read they detest Crucial but really like Samsung (or Hynex if you can get it). If it's a CW_ label (ie. From CWWK) then they really love Crucial. As with the chinese mini pcs some boards had too big a...

Only a guess, but the VM may be waiting for all possible drives to boot. I've a vague memory of posts about similar issues. So the startup stalls until something times out.

From reading many many threads, it seems the CWWK built devices (board ids CW_**), including ones sold by topton, etc appear to get on well with crucial RAM. Often explicitly recommended by CWWK themselves Meanwhile the BKHD_ devices, mainly sold by topton and their cohort, seen to dislike...