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My minisforum mini PC died within two years seemingly our of the blue. Support won't return my emails.
by mcny 1y ago
My minisforum mini PC died within two years seemingly our of the blue. Support won't return my emails.
- brk 1y agoMine has been going for about 4 years now, no issues.
- layer8 1y agoThat’s unfortunately typical for Minisforum. They issue batches of products in a fire-and-forget manner, with hardly any after sales support.
- fckgw 1y agoSame issue here. Just no power at all.
- mcny 1y agoReddit threads suggest MOSFET problems are common among mini PCs. Any ideas? This is especially frustrating because I have an ancient dell optiplex and dell precision with i3-2100 and i3-5xx that still work. I occasionally need to open the box to reseat the ram for whatever reason after a power failure but by an large these machines are over ten years old!
- jauntywundrkind 1y agoMinisforum is also one of many mini-pc vendors that basically doesn't release bios updates. They might release a couple early on, to try to get systems stable, but after that don't expect any bios updates. AMD will release plenty of updates, & you'll be stuck on whatever it was your system came with. Different kind of support concern from yours, but also noteworthy. Really unfortunate. I still have an old HP EliteDesk (i5-8600t) that is my one reliable 24/7 system, still runs fine. Also no bios updates, so I guess there's that. Mini-PCs to me started more as a way to buy cast-off business gear, these small affordable small business systems, even cheaper second hand. It's amazing and great seeing this new market rise up to make interesting mini-pc's, and the value is often still pretty good, but it's a very different character from where the trend started.
- scrlk 1y agoI’d be very surprised if your EliteDesk never got any BIOS updates. In my experience, business grade PCs from the major vendors (Dell/HP/Lenovo) usually have a pretty solid software support lifecycle. If it’s an EliteDesk G2 Mini, the last BIOS update was released in May 2024.
- jauntywundrkind 1y agoYou're totally right! Small distinction: my unit is smaller than the Mini (a weird in between size), it's the 1-liter-ish DM 35W. I thought it would be moot, because I vaguely remember HP starting to require support contracts for bios updates. But I guess that only applies to HP Enterprise gear? Yuck, what a pox.
- LeoPanthera 1y agoAre there any mini PC vendors that do provide BIOS updates?
- mrheosuper 1y agoBig players like HP, Dell, Lenovo do.