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I bought a new barebones mini pc for my parents a while ago (MSI Cubi ADL N with N100 cpu) in which I put ram and m.2 stick from previous pc.

After installing windows 11 on it I noticed very slight and somewhat common artifacting happening around buttons with animations and the pc was restarting within 10-60 seconds after booting up. Eventually I came to a conclusion that it's the driver and tried installing it from 3 different sources - auto update from windows, official msi cubi site and official intel website.

Regardless of which I installed the artifacting was there. Turning on high performance power plan on cranked artifacting to 100. Screen would blink when hovering over task bar and start menu icons and there'd be squares of varying colors appearing, text would deform,... Yes, I tried different monitors and cables.

Having no gpu driver installed and using only Microsoft Basic Display Driver made all the problems above go away.

I ended up RMAing the mini pc assuming the igpu is bad. They said the pc works on their part and asked if customer (me) tried different ram.

Then I sent in the ram stick for an RMA and I was reimbursed 45€ (thats how much I paid for it back then) so I assumed ram was faulty afterall (I did memtest on it beforehand and it showed 0 errors).

After that I ordered a new stick of ram which I today put in the pc again and voila... same problems as before. New ram, old problems except that pc wasn't restarting anymore.

I don't know what to do now. Is artifacting supposed to be there even on Balanced power plan? Am I in the wrong here? Is there something I don't know? I never really owned a mini pc with N-series cpu before. If I RMA it again I have to proove that artifacting is happening and source of it is the faulty igpu.

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I bought a mini pc MSI Cubi N ADL S with N100 cpu 10 days ago.

After installing windows 11 the screen would go black after 10-60 seconds or it would straight up reboot sometimes. There would also be occasional artifacting present and turning on high performance power plan would crank that up to 11 and even distort text on screen.

Even tried to install windows 10 which threw BSOD 2 times with VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE, dkmdn64.sys being the culprit. (installing linux mint worked completely fine which is super weird)

I wrote all that on a piece of paper and handed the pc back for an RMA.

An hour ago I received a call from the shop I bought it from that they sent it to MSI for an RMA and it came back fine (furmark testing was okay and a bunch of other tests that I can't remember) except that there would be slight artifacting at times.

I wouldn't call myself highly knowledgeable but as far as I know any artifacting is typically a sign of failing gpu. Occasionally it can be a sign of bad drivers but I tried 3 different gpu drivers (letting windows update handle it, directly from msi support page and latest from intel). In this case that would mean the integrated graphics is faulty.

I also tested the ram I used just in case but memtest passed with no issues.

There's no way in hell the RMA gets denied, right?

I bought my parents a new mini pc MSI Cubi N ADL S with N100 as cpu. It had black screen issues and BSODs but I think I solved that - there were driver conflicts which were causing it I guess.

While troubleshooting I tried changing the power plan option from balanced to high performance. When selecting the Balanced option (which is on by default) you can rarely see artifacting (all sorts of colored shapes appearing when hovering over buttons/text with animations).

But when I select high performance plan this is cranked to 11. Nearly every animations makes various dots appear of all colors, some text would even get distorted and re-shaped. Screen also goes black for a split second.

Is that a cause for concern (I mean an RMA)? It's a low power mini pc and it makes sense it would cause problem if you want it to perform outside of its bounds (hence the artifacting) but I'm asking just to be sure.

I bought my parents a new mini pc MSI Cubi N ADL S with N100 as cpu. It had black screen issues and BSODs but I think I solved that - there were driver conflicts which were causing it I guess.

While troubleshooting I tried changing the power plan option from balanced to high performance. When selecting the Balanced option (which is on by default) you can rarely see artifacting (all sorts of colored shapes appearing when hovering over buttons/text with animations).

But when I select high performance plan this is cranked to 11. Nearly every animations makes various dots appear of all colors, some text would even get distorted and re-shaped. Screen also goes black for a split second.

Is that a cause for concern (I mean an RMA)? It's a low power mini pc and it makes sense it would cause problem if you want it to perform outside of its bounds (hence the artifacting) but I'm asking just to be sure.

TL;DR at the bottom in bold.

I bought a barebones mini pc Msi cubi n adl s (N100 cpu) and put in 8gb of ram + a 500gb m.2 from previous mini pc that refused to boot up.

After windows 11 updates go through the pc black screens. Nothing works and it can only be powered down by holding the power button. After turning it on again it typically does the same thing after 10 to 60 seconds. On rare occasion it doesn't hang on black screen but it just reboots.

But if I revert the intel gpu driver from device manager (I have to do it quickly otherwise the pc black screens) that doesn't happen anymore.

I've been troubleshooting for 2 days straight. I reinstalled windows 11 like 5 times. I came to a conclusion that it's either a gpu driver that has trouble or a combination of two drivers.

I also tried linux mint and it worked flawlessly. I was curious about windows 10 too and well, same thing as on 11 but this time it would sometimes freeze and throw up a BSOD with VIDEO_TDR_FAILIURE, igdkmdn64.sys as what failed.

Bios update also did nothing and memtest passed.

What I noticed aswell is that there seems to be some artifacting appearing when hovering over buttons and other OS elements with animations and they are very visibly appearing far more often when choosing high performance power plan.

In theory then every pc with N100 should be having problems like this but I know this isn't reasonable.

I feel like I tried everything under the sun.

I'm coming to a conclusion that the integrated graphics is faulty and I'll have to RMA the pc. However I'm somewhat afraid that it will be denied because I updated the bios (dunno if that's considered as tampering) or they will use different ram+m.2 config (it's a barebones pc so I ofcourse am not sending it in with my ram and drive) and the pc will end up working fine so they'll refuse the rma.

I bought a new mini pc for my parents. It's a mini pc MSI Cubi N ADL S-225BEU with N100 cpu. For drive and ram I used them from previous broken mini pc.

I installed windows 11 3 times.

First time I let windows 11 do it's updates after install. Pc screen was black after I came back. I figured I might aswell re-create a bootable usb and re-install the OS since the pc is empty anyway. Again same issues.

Third time is the charm, right? Guess not. I started thinking and came to a conclusion that it's either a bad cable or the driver. Well, I ruled out the cable by using another.

What's exactly the problem you may ask. Well, after the pc boots it black-screens after atleast 10 seconds. On occasion the pc would reboot but usually just turned to black screen.

Restoring the display driver to the basic microsoft one with device manager actually solves the issue. Sometimes I couldn't even make it to the device manager's driver revert button in time.

I did try the most recent drivers aswell and still same issue.

What else is there to do? Am I doing something wrong (I really hope so)?

My parents pc (i7 930 cpu) kicked the bucket so now they need a new one. They'd like a small one since it's 2026 and mini pcs are now a thing.

I see there's plenty of them on the market with N-series cpus but I'm not sure if they're better than the i7 930 they have right now. All they do on their computer is browse the internet and basic office things.

I'm looking at MSI Cubi N ADL S-225BEU barebone Intel N100 / WiFi 5 + BT 5.0 / 2x1Gbps / black for 180€.

How much can I trust this website with comparing the cpu performance?

There's also Acer Veriton NUC N1502G Intel Core 5 120U, 10 core, Iris Xe, without HDD, without RAM, without OS for 280€ but that would be overkill and paying for unnecessary cpu horsepower I think.

I do have sodimm ddr4 8gb ram stick and 500gb m.2 drive already so that's non-issue. Ofcourse I'd install windows 11 on it.

I'm very much confused. I set up cachyos in in virtual machine and wanted to share a folder over that I'd use for sharing movies on local network. It was rather straightforward once I found the right way to do it.

I copied a movie into it. After connecting from my windows 10 machine nothing really showed up. So I created a new .txt file in the shared folder and refreshing suddenly made the movie show up.

Deleting the movie instantly made the it disappear when viewing the shared folder from my windows 10 machine. After that I tried again. This time I edited the .txt folder, wrote some garbage in it and saved it.

Refreshing made the movie appear again.

What's the deal here? Why can't my windows 10 machine see new files in shared folder without editing or creating the same file in it?

Their previous mini asrock x300 pc with ryzen 3 4350g, 8gb ddr4 ram and 500gb m.2 just died. I'm fairly sure the motherboard on it died based on testing that I can do at home.

Technically we already have all components needed, the ram and ssd for a new mini pc. But what cpu to got for? I'm looking at barebones models and they have N100, N200, N97, N250 cpus.

The way they use their pc is very simple. 99% of time is spent with chrome and youtube open. The other 1% of time is either some simple word or excel document or maybe playing a media file (movies).

Nothing demanding. Is there in any way possible that any of cpus I mentioned above won't suffice?

I'm looking at MSI Cubi N ADL S-225BEU barebone Intel N100 / WiFi 5 + BT 5.0 / 2x1Gbps / black.

Their previous mini pc with ryzen 3 4350g, 8gb ddr4 ram and 500gb m.2 just died. I'm fairly sure the motherboard on it died.

Technically we already have all components needed, the ram and ssd for a new mini pc. But what cpu to got for? I'm looking at barebones models and they have N100, N200, N97, N250 cpus.

The way they use their pc is very simple. 99% of time is spent with chrome open. The other 1% of time is either some simple word or excel dock or maybe playing a media file (movies).

Nothing demanding. Is there in any way possible that any of cpus I mentioned above won't suffice?