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Beelink Mini S12 Pro Mini PC: Intel 12th Gen N100, 16GB DDR4, 500GB SSD
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These machine comes with a default windows 11/10 but there is a software that comes with it, that you can see it under START UP services. I forgot the name but please make sure you reinstall windows.
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For all who are uninvolved, Debian Bookworm (latest version) takes care of all this.
The problem is not Linux. The problem is Intel and they are behind on providing the microcode to globally support their hardware. If Linus and team are provided microcode guidelines they patch kernels fast (nightly builds as you know).
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If you download the media and do the clean install it will NOT come up as having a valid license.
I'm guessing you tried installing from the media without doing the initial startup online, didn't you?
Although true that the N95 GPU runs faster, it has 16 compute units versus 24 for the N100. Benchmarks mostly show the video performance of the N100 much higher. In terms of overall benchmark, they are similar with the N100 winning by about 3 percent.
For me is exactly the same machine just a different enclosure
Microsoft makes its Windows installers widely available for everyone to download and install. Google Windows USB Media Creation Tool and it will link you to the Microsoft site to get it.
If you hand built a custom PC, the Windows activation servers will not recognize that specific hardware profile and prompt you to enter a valid product key as it wasn't not an OEM product where the manufacturer had licensed the Windows installation.
It is not exactly a specific numeric product key per se. It is composed of the manufacturer's hardware profile that the Windows activation servers recognize. So if you drastically upgrade the components of your OEM PC it may fail the activation server's query some day.
Once your Windows installation has been activated, the Windows activation servers has a snapshot of your system's components for a "profile". So from there on, anytime you re-install Windows it is glad to see you again and activate your freshly installed Windows OS.
Without knowing if your custom built PC motherboard's manufacturer has purchased a Windows license, probably both system's hardware profile was similar enough to "fool" the Windows activation server. Perhaps you re-used the same gaming card on both rigs?
As to the naming of the PC, you probably named the PC the same name during the Windows installation and was not aware of it. When Windows self installs, it usually just gives it a random alpha-numeric ID and that you can change later via Computer Properties. It never gives it a specific computer name. Naming is for humans to identify, computers can care less, you are just a MAC address, an IP address, and a unique hardware profile token.
After sending it back, I unboxed the gaming pc I was sitting on and installed the windows that I found on that pc. I only used a mouse. No keyboard. It asks what language, what partition and that's pretty much it. It installed windows 11 and after reboot it has the same name as the mini pc with not the same hardware and all of that. The only thing similar is the internet connection. The GTR7 is ddr5, and the gaming pc is ddr-4. They both use AMD processors, but the mini pc was the 7740HS and the gaming pc is a 5600X. I'm even made the image on a third pc because I was scared the GTR7 would reboot during the process.
I say all that to say that I don't believe it's stored in bios nor do I believe that it's a close hardware relationship. The GTR7 has Radeon graphics, my gaming pc has an RTX 3070. I'm fine with having an activated windows 11 on my gaming pc, but it's just weird how everything transferred to totally different hardware. .
Appreciate the response.
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