pastrychef
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A few years ago, I picked up an ASRock Deskmini 110. It wasn't because I needed it, I just loved the form factor and its ability to house two SATA drives and an NVMe SSD. Since I didn't need it, after installing macOS, it went in the closet and had been sitting there since.
Now that we are at peak heat of the summer, I find myself at home a lot because I despise the heat and humidity. So, I've been looking for projects to do to keep myself busy... I decided to pull out my Deskmini and turn it in to a Batocera box.
Everything ran great... for a few days. Then the system started freezing randomly for no apparent reason when it had been running just fine previously. I also tested and experienced freezes in macOS too. So, I went down the rabbit hole...
I tried:
Nothing helped. Then I went searching on Google and found:
Apparently, this is an issue that afflicts many (all?) Deskmini 110 owners. There was a long thread on the ASRock forum about it which ASRock deleted. The workaround seems to be to use Intel XTU to undervolt the IGPU. This, of course, is useless to me because I run Batocera (Linux) or macOS...
So, in to the garbage this Deskmini goes...
Now that we are at peak heat of the summer, I find myself at home a lot because I despise the heat and humidity. So, I've been looking for projects to do to keep myself busy... I decided to pull out my Deskmini and turn it in to a Batocera box.
Everything ran great... for a few days. Then the system started freezing randomly for no apparent reason when it had been running just fine previously. I also tested and experienced freezes in macOS too. So, I went down the rabbit hole...
I tried:
- Two different CPUs
- Three different sets of RAM
- Two different CPU coolers
- With and without NVMe SSD
- With and without Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
Nothing helped. Then I went searching on Google and found:
Solution for Intel Graphics freezing system
?MY COMPUTERASRock DeskMini H110-STX/COMIntel Pentium G4560 (with HD610?Corsair DDR4 2133 8GSAMSUNG...
forum.asrock.com
Apparently, this is an issue that afflicts many (all?) Deskmini 110 owners. There was a long thread on the ASRock forum about it which ASRock deleted. The workaround seems to be to use Intel XTU to undervolt the IGPU. This, of course, is useless to me because I run Batocera (Linux) or macOS...
So, in to the garbage this Deskmini goes...
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