MinisForum MS-01 - Owners Thread

HighlandeR said:
Yeah I heard about the cmos battery issues, lots of comments over on reddit are asking if they have fixed the cmos battery failure, since many owners are saying I can't keep changing batteries constantly and its apparently not easy to do it.

I am still amazed you don't hear about it with the YT videos really, but guess they are just spamming out non stop reviews and not actually using them or don't have the time to do a follow up video half the time.

I haven't even had the chance to dabble with the ms units or servers, put me right off already :D
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In fairness to Minisforum, I'm a little peeved at the moment because it's naffed up my Tuesday having to spend the best part of 2 hrs faffing round with one of these units and the other two haven't had issues like that as of yet (Touch wood) however if they are starting to charge more for the A2 units I hope they start to put a bit more into their support team.

The person I've been speaking to over there seems pretty decent and I know throughout the postage debacle they were sound as a pound but it seems to be one person dealing with all queries which is mental, likewise having people send their units all the way to Germany or China seems a bit bizarre if they are planning on expanding further.

They're great PCs but they are definitely with their unpolished areas, stuff like the battery being a swine to service because they've stuck it to the board with a sticky pad and put the connector right under the metal chamfered edge as well as things like the import process and the fact that you have to make two holes into some foam in order to get the CPU cooler..... it just lacks a bit of development that would really make the difference.

One bit that is stinky is the reports of them rejecting peoples RMAs due to changing the thermal paste, completely get it if they've fried the CPU as a result but if the issue is unrelated I think that's poor imho
 
TechMinerUK said:
:D :DIn fairness to Minisforum, I'm a little peeved at the moment because it's naffed up my Tuesday having to spend the best part of 2 hrs faffing round with one of these units and the other two haven't had issues like that as of yet (Touch wood) however if they are starting to charge more for the A2 units I hope they start to put a bit more into their support team.

The person I've been speaking to over there seems pretty decent and I know throughout the postage debacle they were sound as a pound but it seems to be one person dealing with all queries which is mental, likewise having people send their units all the way to Germany or China seems a bit bizarre if they are planning on expanding further.

They're great PCs but they are definitely with their unpolished areas, stuff like the battery being a swine to service because they've stuck it to the board with a sticky pad and put the connector right under the metal chamfered edge as well as things like the import process and the fact that you have to make two holes into some foam in order to get the CPU cooler..... it just lacks a bit of development that would really make the difference.

One bit that is stinky is the reports of them rejecting peoples RMAs due to changing the thermal paste, completely get it if they've fried the CPU as a result but if the issue is unrelated I think that's poor imho
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I gave up trusting china and mini pcs.

We are 100% the quality control genie pigs testers and we are the ones that have to fix it:D
 
It looks good but I was really hoping for some more developments on the cooling, especially for any PCI-E add-in cards as whilst i know they say they are expecting GPUs we know a lot people are using NICs and external drive solutions that often don't have a great deal of cooling.

Looks good though but I'd like to see one under a reasonable amount of load for a few months this time round :D
 
Yup doesn't appear they have addressed the cooling and nvme temps, will be interesting to see their nvme addon with its cooling.

Its a whole lot of money really, too much imo and you could probably build something cheaper and with better performance without the issues but would be much bigger naturally.
 
HighlandeR said:
Yup doesn't appear they have addressed the cooling and nvme temps, will be interesting to see their nvme addon with its cooling.

Its a whole lot of money really, too much imo and you could probably build something cheaper and with better performance without the issues but would be much bigger naturally.
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I think this is the key and whilst I really do like the small form factor (Having a full setup that can sit nicely in the corner of the office has a big approval factor from my partner) I think just moving to a slightly larger size like the HP/Lenovo/Dell mini towers is definitely a solid option if thermals are a key issue as it gives you a lot more room for fans and even up to two PCI-E cards which can be a big difference if you are doing clusters or 10G+ networking
 
New bios for ms01...v1.27

Wholesale inquiry

official store
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Release Date: 2025/04/03
BIOS Version: 1.27
BIOS Checksum: 4CE9

BIOS Description:
    1.Add Turbo Ratio Limit Options form
    2.BIOS disables the execution of the UEFI storage Option ROM  by default
    3.The PCIE SLOT supports speed control
    4.Set PL1 to 55W and PL2 to 80W for the 12800H
    5.Set PL1 to 60W and PL2 to 80W for the 270H
    6.Update GOP version to 21.0.1066
 
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skyeci100 said:
New bios for ms01...v1.27

Wholesale inquiry

official store
www.minisforum.cn

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Saw this earlier this week, I'm gonna hang back and let it get tested first after I upgraded last time and it wiped my settings :D

Also, after some back and forth discussing with Minisforum support they've admitted that mine is a battery issue (Albeit it I know after replacing the battery) however they provided steps for how to change the battery along with a confirmation that the process wouldn't void the warranty which was nice (Especially considering they said replacing the TIM would)
 
TechMinerUK said:
Saw this earlier this week, I'm gonna hang back and let it get tested first after I upgraded last time and it wiped my settings :D

Also, after some back and forth discussing with Minisforum support they've admitted that mine is a battery issue (Albeit it I know after replacing the battery) however they provided steps for how to change the battery along with a confirmation that the process wouldn't void the warranty which was nice (Especially considering they said replacing the TIM would)
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Can you share those instructions for the battery replacement please? I haven't had any issue but it would be good to know what's required if and when...

I did upgrade my bios to 1.26 without any issues so I'm am going to put 1.27 on my recent purchase and see how that goes.

Thanks.
 
skyeci100 said:
Can you share those instructions for the battery replacement please? I haven't had any issue but it would be good to know what's required if and when...

I did upgrade my bios to 1.26 without any issues so I'm am going to put 1.27 on my recent purchase and see how that goes.

Thanks.
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So they aren't so much as instructions than a video file they shared via Mediafire as an MP4 :D

That being said, it's easy enough. For me I got a load of "CR2032 1.25MM 2P 3P" from online and then it is a case of using some tiny needle nose pliers (Or tweezers) or lift up the connector and then rinse and repeat with connecting the new one. Then just remove the battery carefully from the motherboard as it's stuck and you are good to go.

The hardest part is the connector as it's in such a daft place like it was never meant to be unplugged but having some tweezers makes it much much easier :)
 
TechMinerUK said:
So they aren't so much as instructions than a video file they shared via Mediafire as an MP4 :D

That being said, it's easy enough. For me I got a load of "CR2032 1.25MM 2P 3P" from online and then it is a case of using some tiny needle nose pliers (Or tweezers) or lift up the connector and then rinse and repeat with connecting the new one. Then just remove the battery carefully from the motherboard as it's stuck and you are good to go.

The hardest part is the connector as it's in such a daft place like it was never meant to be unplugged but having some tweezers makes it much much easier :)
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Ok thanks. What were the issues? Loss of time or something?
 
skyeci100 said:
Ok thanks. What were the issues? Loss of time or something?
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Loss of time and hurting fingers, half the battle is I didn't have the best tools first time round so I was having to delicately pull the wires so as to not damage them and the board but to get enough leverage to actually get the connector to unplug.

Same thing on the reverse was using what little rigidity the wires had to angle the connector in and then get it fixed in.

The main frustration is this connector could have been almost anywhere so why they put it right under the end of the chassis is just bizarre :D
 
I've not paid an awful lot of attention to it tbh, other than to say I've not had any issues. With the MS-01 I didn't change anything, it was running stock for all settings. On the A2 I've changed the other two NVMe from Gen3 to Gen4, and it doesn't appear to have impacted on anything so far. When they're in use they're hit pretty hard as they're my lab gear.

I'll run up some temp monitoring and see what it throws out.
 
Surprised at the lack of USB4 (over USB-C) - the board and CPUs should support it as standard, albeit AMD's implementation has some issues mostly related to initial startup delays.

EDIT: Oh same as the older A1 - only the 8000 series CPUs implement USB4 in this configuration.
 
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Yeah, it's a little frustrating as I've a single cable to swap on the MS-01 on one TB hub - can't do that now! Not that big a deal in the scheme of things.

The power consumption is proving reasonably higher. The MS-01 running my whole lab, once settled, was about 40-55 watts. The MS-02 is settling at about 80ish.
 
Welp, another month another CMOS battery chewed out by the second unit, it seems to be shredding through them like nobodies business!

Same incident where it wouldn't power on, had to take it out, leave it off for a few hours and swap in a new battery.

Really weird
 
Hi. Been a while but could do with some advice please. I had my 3rd ms01 i5 arrive a few days ago. Its running ubuntu and setup the same as the box it replaced. Sadly it has locked up 3 times whilst running. No response through ssh for example and no video.

Could do with a plan of action. First thoughts are to run extended mem test (new ram was fitted at build) but after that I'm not sure. I haven't messed with the heatsink or anything else at this stage on this unit. Bios shipped on the latest version.

Thank you!
 
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skyeci100 said:
Hi. Been a while but could do with some advice please. I had my 3rd ms01 i5 arrive a few days ago. Its running ubuntu and setup the same as the box it replaced. Sadly it has locked up 3 times whilst running. No response through ssh for example and no video.

Could do with a plan of action. First thoughts are to run extended mem test (new ram was fitted at build) but after that I'm not sure. I haven't messed with the heatsink or anything else at this stage on this unit. Bios shipped on the latest version.

Thank you!
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I could have sworn Minisforum had put some advice on STH regarding lockups as whilst the latest BIOS is meant to improve stability apparently it needed a bit of "Jiggery Pokery" in the settings such as dialing back the power limits etc

I've not upgraded to the latest yet as the feedback seems to be unless your specific usecase requires it theres more drawbacks than benefits (extra config, more power restrictions etc)

I would check everything is seated, reset the BIOS, check your drives, run Memtest and if its still being funny log an RMA with them as ultimately you don't want to do too much and get the "oh we can't do an RMA on that now" reply
 
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