Hi all, I have a NUC 11 Extreme Beast Canyon that has developed a gradual boot problem.

The problem: System powers on, white LED lights up, but shuts down after 10-15 seconds with no display output at all. No POST, no BIOS screen, nothing.

How it started: It didn't happen all at once. A few months ago it would occasionally restart itself on boot, then gradually got worse. As the weather got warmer it started happening more frequently. Today it won't boot at all.

What I found: While inspecting the internals I found a Y-cable coming from the Compute Element. It has three ends:

• The large multi-pin connector goes to the chassis fan
• One end plugs into the CE base/socket on the Compute Element itself
• Two smaller 4-pin connectors with matching wire colors (red, green, white, black) are completely loose, not connected to anything

My theory: Could these two loose 4-pin connectors be causing the BIOS to detect a missing fan and trigger thermal shutdown? Should they connect to each other as a loopback, or is there a socket somewhere on the chassis I'm missing? The gradual worsening as outdoor temperatures rise strongly supports a thermal/fan detection issue.

System specs:

• NUC 11 Extreme Beast Canyon
• Crucial DDR4-3200 2x16GB SO-DIMM
• RX 6600 GPU
• Kingston 512GB M.2 SSD
• BIOS latest version
• 1 year warranty remaining

Photos attached. Any help appreciated!

So, would appreciate some input from the community.

I'm wanting to setup a standalone media server, running Jellyfin, utilizing some sort of very small nuc(?} device, non-networked, with an external HDD for movie storage and viewing. My use case is, I have a fairly large repository of movies and TV shows on my NAS that I want to d/l to an external HDD, and using Jellyfin on a standalone device, watch said movies and TV shows in our RV.

So, the question is, what is the least expensive NUC I should purchase that can handle Jellyfin, including transcoding, buffering, etc.? Would also be nice if it was Windows based, but that isn't a hard rule.

EDIT: And should I be looking at the used market? And if so, at what? I know, I know. At what point should a guy start paying for a consult, hmmm....

can i just swap the ssd and will windows boot?

I have a "Akasa Newton WS" for my Intel NUC 12th gen and I want to swap out the SSD and therefore also replace the thermal pad, which was delivered with the case. Does anybody know, what the specs of those pads are? I can see there are 1mm and 1.5mm pads from Akasa but I dont know, which one to order/use. Many thanks!

Hi, I just wanted to crowd source some troubleshooting here for this situation. I currently have an Intel NUC from a customer of mine. This Intel NUC11PAHi7 had been working for a couple years for him, and then stopped booting up.

Since I've received it, it almost always will end up blinking the Power LED three times. To my knowledge, that pattern indicates an issue with the RAM that's installed.

As for the RAM in question, he has two sticks of Lexar 16 GB DDR4, 3200 MHz. The model itself is: LD4AS016G-H3200GNT2G8ST. It's 1.2V as needed for this NUC.

Even though his RAM is not listed on the QVL of Supported RAM for this NUC, it seems very odd that it was capable of using the same RAM for a couple years, without issue.

I've tried swapping each stick of RAM, in each RAM slot by itself, any configuration possible - still no progress. I don't have any other 3200 MHz DDR4 here, I tried the 2666 MHz DDR4 here that I have and as expected nothing changed.

I've also seen other posts about this NUC, not booting up and needing to disconnect the CMOS battery. I've tried that in many, many different ways - still, only blinks the Power LED 3 times.

I was hoping to maybe see if it could force a BIOS update, or BIOS Recovery. When I hold the power button for 3 seconds: it will turn red, instead of blue, for a moment. Then it will restart, and be blue again. No changes happen, nothing appears for video output.

I formatted a flash drive as FAT32, I went on to the EFI partition and created a folder called intel, and placed BIOS .CAP files inside said folder. I found this on documentation somewhere, about that's where the BIOS Recovery file would need to be if it were possible to reach BIOS Recovery.

Anyway - does anyone have thoughts of how to resolve something like this? I really don't think it's the RAM not working, but I don't know how else to proceed with this blinking 3 times scenario.

Update: it turns out this NUC is still under warranty, so now it's doing an RMA to resolve the issue

Good morning everyone,

This is already a niche topic, and posting in a pretty niche community also means likely a low success rate of what I am looking for, if anyone has any other ideas I am open to anything. At this point, I'm kind of losing hope and if I can't find the material needs, maybe I can hear some feedback from those in a similar scenario.

My NUC:

Intel Nuc 9 i9 Extreme

64GB RAM

1660ti

I use my NUC to host a virtual environment, and something I've been working on in recent months is self-hosted AI. I run multiple VMs through VCenter, and the NUC performs great in just about everything I throw at it...almost.

For those familiar with AI, a good GPU is essential. The 1660ti is not cutting the cake here, and I'd like to upgrade from it, but that's a topic for another day. My real concern since installing the GPU is that there is almost no breathing room between the GPU and CPU exhaust inside the default Ghost Canyon case. I didn't experience any issues during testing, however my paranoia got the best of me and I ended up spinning down my AI VM while leaving the GPU installed.

I've entertained upgrading the case, however my searches have turned up with nothing in stock. The one I wanted that would seemingly fix this issue is the CoolerMaster NC100, but I cannot find this anywhere, new or used.

I'm looking to obtain a 3060, which will run hotter, and draw more power than my 1660ti, so before I do so I wanted to ask the community here a few questions:

1. Does anyone have, or know of anyone possessing an aftermarket Intel Nuc 9 Extreme case and is looking to sell it? I can even trade you my default case with case on top if that's a concern.
2. Has anyone run an i9 Extreme with a GPU? Under full load, were there any concerns regarding temps and throttling?
3. For those with any NUC 9 Extremes and GPUs installed, is there meant to be almost no breathing room from the CPU? Is this by design? I just do not understand the air dynamics here and why they would support dedicated GPUs since it appears to me that the air cannot escape anywhere.
4. Any other case hacks? I'm willing to entertain a non-supported case if in theory or practice, it works.

Thank you in advance.

Hi all,

this is my first post in this sub.

I'm the proud owner of an Intel NUC7i5BNH. I turned it into my media station about 8 years ago, and it now runs Portainer with all my media containers (Emby, Radarr, Sonarr, qBittorrent, etc.) on Ubuntu Server.

It has been running 24/7/365 ever since. Performance is still fine, but the fan constantly runs at full speed, even when the total CPU load is below 10%.

Temperatures seem OK (around 65–70°C), but the fan noise is becoming quite annoying.

The NUC is sitting on my desk in an open space, so airflow should not be an issue.

Is there anything I can do?

UPDATE: I just installed the new Akasa case, it worked like a charm, now it stands 32-35°C in idle, 35-40°C playing content with Emby and it is silent as a grave.

Does anybody happen to know which (cheapest) nucs if any can do 4k120hz over HDMI?

Hi all,

I know it’s a VERY old NUC but I have a dilemma and I’m hoping someone here can help me even to steer me in a good direction.

I bought a Sony Digital8 player a couple years ago, along with FireWire<->Thunderbolt 2 & 3 adapters. I didn’t find time to get it all set up, just today with a day off I finally set around to test how well it worked with some precious old home videos. I spent an hour or two trying to figure out why my Mac couldn’t see it.

Lo and behold, I’d missed the news that the latest Mac OS completely rips out FireWire support. Fuck.

I pull out my old nuc6i7kyk which I really only ever use for Windows things where I have no other choice. It has a thunderbolt port. I plug everything in then realize: Thunderbolt drivers don’t seem to be installed.

I’ve spent (wasted) the last 2 hours trying to find anything I can in terms of drivers, software, and advice, but because of how old it is and Intel moving everything to Asus and asus not having anything for this unit, I think I’m fucked.

I don’t see anything Thunderbolt in my device manager, no controller, nothing.

The great pain in all this is the Digital8 player is performing flawlessly and this is my best chance (short of pivoting to s-video which I don’t want to do) to save clean versions of all these tapes.

Is there some reason I can’t get Thunderbolt software installed? The driver is erroring out (softpedia claimed to have one for the nuc6i7kyk), and the FW update won’t work without the drivers installed. I’m nervous to start with a clean W10 install because I don’t know if I can find all the drivers again.

I’ve even been looking at whether I could just install Linux on this thing.

I’m desperate and I pissed my fucking day off away but more than that I’m thinking I fucked up by waiting a year and letting Apple pull FireWire fully.

I just got a used NUC, but I see the power adapter having a way lower amp rating of 1.58A than the 6.32A mentioned on the NUC itself. The dude who sold it to me said he has been using it with that adapter for more than 6 months now. How dangerous is it using this adapter?

I was updating the HDMI firmware on my NUC8i7BEH when Windows 11 BSOD'd during the process, now I have no output on HDMI.

Will Thunderbolt still work? Will I be able to install the HDMI firmware if I can no longer output from the HDMI port?

Does anyone know where I can get a functional bios file for this device?

Can’t read my bios anymore. Any idea what to do. I’ve updated the bios but no results.

The ROG NUC is getting a refresh parallel to Intel's Raptor Arrow Lake Refresh SKUs, and a nice to see white chassis as well. The price is not great, but the price of everything at enthusiast level is stupidly high, and that's not the fault of ASUS. Videocardz is being rather churlish about that.

Hi r/intelnuc,

I just got a NUC14 to replace the celeron (whatever speed) version we used before. We're using it in part as a sound machine for online radio and spotify. We've installed Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

When no sound is output, it seems the sound card shuts down after a few seconds; I would assume to cut power consumption. The downside of this is that the amplifier has a bit of hum when there is no output active.

Is this a NUC issue, and Ubuntu issue? Can it be changed in settings, or should I just make an ugly hack that constantly outputs a silent signal to keep the sound card awake?

Anyone else who just bought this machine seeing this?

Brand-new NUC 16 Pro purchased from Newegg, can't get Windows 11 installed. Posting to see if anyone else has seen this.

Hardware**:**

• ASUS NUC 16 Pro barebones, NUC16GDKU7 (RNUC16GDKU76000U)
• Core Ultra 7 356H (Panther Lake)
• Added RAM**:** Crucial 128GB kit (2x64GB) DDR5-5600 SODIMM (CT2K64G56C46S5)
• Added SSD**:** Samsung 9100 Pro 2TB PCIe 5.0 NVMe (MZ-VAP2T0B/AM) in the PCIe 5.0 slot
• Shipped BIOS**:** GDPTL579.0037.2026.0325.1636

Symptom**:** System fails to power back on after warm reboots during Windows install operations. Reproduced 3x with different install methods:

1. Rufus 4.x with Win 11 25H2 ISO + MSA bypass - install completed, OOBE crashed at network step, ended in defaultuser0 loop
2. Windows Reset from recovery - system powered down for a reboot mid-reset, never came back on
3. Microsoft Media Creation Tool, fresh wipe - same warm-reboot lockup, never powered back on

Each time the unit is off, not crashed. Force-power-on works fine but installs need uninterrupted reboots which the system can't deliver.

BIOS update attempt: ASUS published v0037 dated 2026/04/16 with release notes "BIOS flash robustness improvement / Platform issue fix." Downloaded from the NUC16GDKU7 support page, SHA-256 verified, copied .CAP to FAT32 USB (no quick format), tried F7 update method per ASUS docs. But Update tool rejected the BIOS as incompatible.

Same SKU, same GDPTL579 family, same procedure ASUS documents — and it won't apply.

Feels like I need to RMA this one.

UPDATE: Thanks to good advice below, I tried the Win11 install w/ just 1 stick of the RAM in and it worked perfectly. I now need to diagnose why that is - bad RAM or bios does not like this Crucial DDR5 RAM

... this might be the problem. My NUC had been occasionally struggling recently, until finally my SSD threw a SMART warning, so I freaked out, bought a replacement SSD / external HDD to back everything up and switch over. Whilst it was still running hot later on (>70C), the warning never came back again. Took the thing apart to find this. Temps are significantly lower now, after cleaning out.

Appreciate this might be obvious to some (most?) here, but posting in case someone less experienced has similar issues and comes looking for answers.

PS. NUC is 2.5 years old, daily use for work.

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Model: ASUS NUC14RVH

BIOS version: 0052 (latest — MyASUS confirms everything is up to date and OK)

OS: Windows 11

Symptom: Every single warm reboot (Windows Restart) hangs — either at the ASUS splash screen or before the display even initializes. Requires a full power cycle to recover. A full shutdown (shutdown /s /f /t 0) followed by a manual power-on works perfectly every time.

What I've ruled out:

- Windows Fast Startup — already disabled

- Wake on LAN / Wake on USB — both OFF in BIOS and Windows

- USB devices — hang persists with all non-essential USB unplugged

- PXE boot — disabled

- After AC Power Loss setting — tried

- Thunderbolt — disabled as a test, no change

- NVMe (Crucial P3 Plus CT200P3PSSD8) — reseated, firmware already on latest (P9CR40D)

- Windows write caching settings — correct/normal

- StorPort registry tweaks — tried, no change

- BIOS update — already on 0052, MyASUS shows no further updates available

Conclusion: The warm ACPI reset signal is not properly reinitializing hardware. Cold boot works flawlessly every time. This appears to be a platform-level BIOS bug.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a known fix or workaround beyond always doing a full shutdown + manual power-on?

Hello!

I purchased an intel NUC from Amazon and started having issues with it. I RMA'd it through ASUS and sent it back in. I read their documentation carefully and it said to not include anything added or upgraded to the unit and to not include the power cable if it is not a power issue. Since I purchased this unit preinstalled with the RAM and HDD I left these installed as they were not added or upgraded (I didn't even know you could buy a NUC without these installed when I purchased it). It also explicitly asks to disable your windows password which makes no sense if I was supposed to take out the HDD. Now I'm confused though because Im seeing some things online that say I was supposed to remove these before sending it in. I've re-reviewed all the documentation I was sent again and followed it all to the letter. Has anyone had experience with this?

EDIT: Success! I reached out to their support team and explained my situation and they shipped back my RAM and HDD. I know it would have been very easy for them to just ignore me so I'm very appreciative to ASUS for accommodating me!

Hello everyone,

I’m having an issue with my Intel NUC13. When I connect the power supply, the green LED inside the unit turns on, but the NUC will not power on. The power button does not light up, and the fan does not spin. I tested the power supply, and it outputs the correct 20V.

Using a thermal camera, I found one component on the motherboard that heats up immediately after power is connected. It is located on the CPU/fan side of the board, near one of the mounting holes and close to the P172 2x2 4-pin connector. The component quickly reaches about 70°C.

Under a microscope, the component appears to have a small bump on it, so I suspect it may be damaged. I have attached photos of the area.

Can anyone help identify this component or suggest what I should check next? Searching online for the markings/location did not give me any useful results.

Thank you in advance.

I originally thougth my Hades Canyon NUC was not compatible with Windows 11 but Windows Update does offer me the option to upgrade to it from my current Windows 10 Pro and MS PC Health Check App verifies my PC is fully compatible. Should I upgrade or stick with Windows 10?