Beelink Mini PC Tips

[Tom Saurus]

With the set up my Sister has we bought a used monitor at a second hand store. Well anyway this monitor doesn't have the sound built in. So what we have been doing is plugging some speakers into the headphone slot on my Sister's computer to output the sound. This works fine until it doesn't work. The solution I eventually found by searching the internet and a person had a reddit thread and had asked the question and the answer is while the computer is off unplug the power adapter from the back of the computer and then plug it back in. This seems to reboot the drivers to export the sound again via the headphone jack output.

Another thing that has been happening on my Beelink Mini PC is that suddenly the ethernet even though it shows it is working browsers and other programs can't access the internet. From my search on the internet for the problems seems to be that the solution is going into Device Manager and finding the ethernet and making sure that you untick the box that says "allow the computer to put this device to sleep to save energy". So I have done this and I hope it works.

The last time this happened the only thing that seemed to be able to access the internet was the Microsoft Edge Browser. Before I could reconnect with activating my Eset VPN but this last time even that didn't work.

The Windows 11 Beelink Mini PC have been wonderful and I am considering on getting one more to replace my Windows 7 Desktop for surfing the internet. My current one I use for my Mom's media center for her non smart TV.

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Thanks for the tips. It will surely help anyone who has problems like these.

[Tom Saurus]

Thank that is my intention. I have been waffling about getting that other mini pc as I have an important project that I am saving up for. I did notice another Beelink with twice as much ram and twice the amount of hard drive space as the ones we have now for around the same price. I might just buy it as the another brand that has a 1 TB hard drive has went up in price.

I have a question I will float here. Now when a Mini PC says it has Blue Tooth built in does that mean you don't have to put that receiver dongle for a wireless keyboard in a USB slot?

Also a warning about the Mini PC I have. Even though it has 4 USB slots don't plug any more than two large USB hard drives in as I believe it is too much of a power draw. I have plugged in three 2 TB hard drives that get their power from the USB and one will start beeping and not work. I have been able to plug a thumb drive into the third USB slot. My wireless keyboard with track pad takes up a USB slot with its receiver.

[Tom Saurus]

I have found that one can get the blue screen of death a fair bit if you are watching your videos through Kodi and you were doing something else like downloading a video stream or such task. So now I use VLC to watch videos and bsod happens much less.

[johns0]

When blu-tooth is built-in there's no need for a dongle.

[Tom Saurus]

When blu-tooth is built-in there's no need for a dongle.

Thank you for this information. It is certainly nice not having to use up a USB slot for the dongle.

I am thinking to when it comes to USB Hubs and I don't even own one yet that when it come to such devices that one would be best to go with a powered hub as I could easily see the USB being too taxing on the power supply in the mini pc.

Something I am wondering though is I wonder if the blue tooth being built in would one have to be careful how close you have other mini pcs as you wouldn't want them interfering with each other when it comes to using your keyboard.

I personally went Logitech K400 wireless keyboard with trackpad and I was worried as I thought it would have a cramped feel but thankfully it doesn't and I appreciate the media keys such as the play / pause button.

[Tom Saurus]

One of the biggest reasons I went with a mini pc was I had been using Android Boxes for playing .mp4 files and some streaming video. However even though I was paying 75 bucks or so I would end up frustrated as they wouldn't function the way the should as they had phone operating systems on them.

So I took a chance and bought a Beelink Mini PC with Windows 11 and Windows 11 hasn't been as horrible as I thought it would be. I had watched a lot of YouTube videos for Raspberry Pi and was going to go that route but realized that even though the OS was cool I felt one got more bang for the buck going with a Beelink Mini PC.