N100 Mini PC Constantly Booting to BIOS

jj8aus on 15/06/2024 - 15:09

I bought a N100 Mini pc from Ali express. Link: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005984620683.html

If was mentioned in a recent deal post.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/849266#comment-15384380

I bought one of these without ram or ssd. It arrived yesterday and I just picked up a 16gig so-dimm ddr5-4800 and a 1tb crucial ssd. Have a standard usb keyboard and hdmi monitor plugged in. The problem is that the computer is always booting to bios. I can’t figure it out.

If I remove power and plug it in, it immediately powers on, does not wait for me to press power button. It beeps once and shows the bios page.

If I save and exit from the bios, it just saves and then the bios kinda reloads/like a reboot.

The ram is showing up in the bios and seems all good.

It looks like AMI bios…and single short beep is “ DRAM (dynamic random access memory) refresh failure.”. Does this thing require a very specific type of ram?

I’ve removed the ssd and same behaviour. Anyone got any tips or ideas? Unfortunately I don’t have anything else with ddr5 so-dimms to swap out/test the ram.

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Comments

  • USER DC on 15/06/2024 - 15:19
    +2

    you have any OS in SSD ?? (my guess is you are trying to boot from SSD which has no windows/linux or any other OS in it)

    you tried booting into like a Linux Live OS with a USB ??

    In bios you changed boot sequence options ?? Boot from USB first > Boost from SSD next

    As far as memory specs for N100

    Memory Specifications
    Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type)
    16 GB
    Memory Types
    DDR4 3200 MT/s
    DDR5 4800 MT/s
    LPDDR5 4800 MT/s
    Maximum Memory Speed
    4800 MHz

  • o53djz7qTPY4der on 15/06/2024 - 16:01

    I agree with above. You don't have an OS.

  • jj8aus on 15/06/2024 - 16:04
    +2

    Yep, you are both correct, thanks! I have never encountered it behaving like that before. Used to just tell you no bootable device found. I put in a bootable device and she works :) thanks again

  • redfox1200 on 15/06/2024 - 16:05

    you need to get a windows bootable usb to install the OS

  • Lord Ra on 15/06/2024 - 17:20

    The no OS is what I was thinking 🙄
    But then I was sure that you would have covered it.

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