My Beelink Mini PC Died in 4 days

Well, I said I'd let you know if anything happened. After setting up home assistant, and getting everything dialed in... my Beelink S12 Pro died the very next day. In this video, I try to get it to boot to no avail... Oh well.

Caveat Emptor.

=== Timestamps ===
0:00 Introduction
0:30 Power Cycling
0:50 Resetting the CMOS
1:34 Removing new SSD
2:30 Voltage testing the power supply
2:58 Removing M2 SSD
3:45 Thermal imaging
6:30 Disconnecting CMOS battery
7:05 Conclusion: IDK WTF.

[Roberto]

I own it from September and fortunately no problems. I just reinstalled windows 11 pro from zero, replaced the original 512 GB SSD with a 2 TB one from Crucial (with a heat sink because it gets very hot), removed the SATA enclosure for more space and replaced the 16 GB RAM bank with one, also 16 GB DDR4 3200 (Corsair Vengeance) that I had at home and it was incompatible with a Ryzen miniPC (sometimes it froze, but with this mini s12 pro the compatibility seems to be excellent).. It's been 6 months and so far it's going great..🤞🤞

[apwelsh]

I have the Mini S which looks identical on the inside. It worked for 10 months, not the blue light is always on. did all the same stuff (less the thermal imaging) and doesn't work. Hoping the company makes good on their warranty. I'm not too confident though, their support has been really bad, taking days to weeks to reply to inquiries in the past.

[Tikka]

Our beelink has been on 2/7 for 2years, only time it's been off is when the power has gone off. Seems some have flunk the month test. Usually if it lasts a week, it'll last a month, if lasts a month, usually good til the owner wants to update.

[NotIT]

I just go an S12 Pro and it lasted all of about 10 hours of runtime. Just long enough to get things set up. Frustrating to say the least. What the one I had would do is turn on for 1-2 seconds and then shut off over and over. Waiting for a replacement now. Would be one heck of a cheap and decent mini if would last.

[katjak]

A friend bought a SER5 (5600H I think) which started dying after 4 days (loss of color palette during POST, but Windows was fine). She returned it and bought a SER6 Pro which started to falter today (the second day of use). The USB ports were going out.

She's had it with Beelink after investing in 2 computers, 64 gig of RAM for the SER5 and 3TB of NVMEs (none of which she can use).

[dabbridges]

The only other thing I would've tried first was swapping out the HDMI/Displayport cable and/or different monitor/monitor port. I've had bad/loose cables and bad monitor ports result in a "no signal" erro even though the computer was booting. Not saying it's your issue, but just soemthing to eliminate early on duing diagnostics.

[usatechcity]

Change memory ram is the first thing to test. As a computer tech. Memory is always get hot 🔥 and fail

[markdawson]

Glad your replacement is working fine... My EQ12 has really impressed me so far, and I'm thinking about picking up one of these today now that they are down to $139 for this model (and $119 for 8GB RAM/256GB SSD).

[gyllkrans]

I had actually just ordered this model for the same purpose when I saw this. Luckily just in time to cancel the order. I notice among the comments that some swear by their beelinks, some had a similar experience but it does seem that QC is an issue so I thank you for this info. I think I'll go with a more reputable brand.

[gilpi]

Dont wanna jinx mine... I bought a Beelink N95 a week ago, have not shut it off yet and runs like a champ. Longevity, well, I'll post here in a few weeks.

[supervisblex]

never thought this was so common in beelink. I bought 2 mini s12 last 6 months and my one mini pc after 5 days died, luckily though replacement was easy in the store i purchased

[Tech_with_Loco]

Own Ser5 R7 5700U Pro, it's rock solid! I did remove Win-dose 11 Pro after a month, installed Mint OS. After a few months replaced NVMe to faster and bigger unit. Installed SSD the same week I purchased. Upped the RAM to 32 after 6 months. Have created short 4K video with present setup, IT JUST WORKS! That's my true review of my Beelink mini PC. Only issue is CPU is not up gradable (soldered in unit), and BIOS is pretty minimal. It is still a great value, I've had laptops fail out of box, and a few name brands that nothing was able to be upgraded, if you have a spare monitor, the mini is a far better deal than a laptop!

[the_original_dude]

Thanks for sharing!
I have a chance of buying it for $145(16G/500G), but read some alarming comments on a forum, and this just confirms my suspicions.
Even though there are people saying they have beelink products that are working fine, I wouldn't put my trust in this thing, I'd rather spend more money for something rock-solid.

[odysseythekidd]

My beelink PC has been amazing! Sad to see some of them have problems.

[ErikS-]

I have two of them. Both with AMD 5600H cpu. One of them is running 24/7 and hasnt given an issue ever (over 10 months).
Note: I replaced memory and SSD after receiving it.

[johanncat-s]

My version of this same machine worked fairly well out of the box and the 1235U seemed good and fast, but the whole package seemed to run a bit hot according to thermal monitors I installed and had a noisy fan than revved stressfully almost constantly; RAM use was oddly high on a machine with 32gb RAM. This trivia may or may not have something to do with the SEi12's real behavioral problems, which began with odd acts coming out of sleep. At about month 9 with this machine, if it returned from sleep, the wifi would be off and I would have to restart the network adapter to get it back. Stranger behaviors developed after this: if the machine restarted itself over-night for an update, it might crash to a black screen at some random point during the next day-and rebooting was not simple. Rebooting would involve a 15 minute off-interval (I never understood why, but it was an empirical fact) before it would reboot. Hibernating the machine would result in the same behaviors. Eventually, the machine would not return from hibernate or sleep at all [and not just with USB stimuli, but with the power button]. Yes, scary. My options were to leave the machine on all the time OR fully shut-down the machine. Anything else made the machine prone to black-crash at some random point afterwards. The reason I simply replaced this machine is that its crash-to-black [with unresponsive keyboard, no simple reboot, and a required 15 minute off period] behavior, though rare and hard to link to a specific cause other than "it doesn't like partial shut-downs, " became more frequent. Though similar, Beelink-unique problems are often discussed in Beelink forums, [with no fixes that I saw and comments like "I worked in PC repair for 20 years, and this stumps me"], Beelink help confined its advice to suggestions that one could get from a Windows chat-bot, and little more-- like "have you tried updating your graphics drivers?" Uh, yeh. This machine began to crash to black during Zoom or in image editing work--fairly low-demand stuff by current standards. I can't have a machine that leaves me high, dry, and reaching for a back-up laptop during a Zoom classroom that I am leading. Beelink sent me into the waiting arms of Lenovo for a new desktop. Given the percentage of these that fail (see other reviews and forums), I'd say at the least that this machine wasn't built to withstand its own heat stresses, and that the run had serious quality-control issues. Sorry to say it, but avoid these guys.

[abu_badi]

Thanks, I cancelled my order before thy ship it, unfortunately a few people talking about this issue, most of them are receiving the PC for free In return for advertising

[zonatourvirtual]

I'm recomending it to a friend because of the price and performance but now I'm wondering if it is a good product. I read some reviews on Amazon and some pleople are having the same issue.

[gregspeakman]

I have the same model. It only boots up if you have any usb thumb drive in it. It could be just a data drive. I am using Windows 11 Pro. Beelink said it was the m.2 SSD. They sent me a new one and the same issue.

[nick]

You should do a follow up video because you replace this. This happens sometimes I bought a Dell laptop three years ago that lasted three days. I didn’t do a video about it because it was replaced by the manufacturer.