WANTED - PC innards expert

Hi

The micro PC (Beelink GK55) we use for entering races and recording leisure sailing has a problem.  I have temporarily replaced it with an old PC while we sort out the issue.

The PC is just out of warranty to add to the buggeration factor.  From cold it starts as expected - loads Windows (11) and runs just fine and dandy.  After about 40 - 50 minutes it reports an error "unable to find media" - it often recovers for a few minutes but the outages become more frequent.  Starting from warmish it will run for 10-15 minutes before the problem occurs.  I am by no means a hardware expert, but from searching t'internet it seems that, a possible cause may be the SDD storage not being properly seated.

Now I could take the back off the PC and have a poke around - but with VERY little idea of what I am doing.  Is there anyone out there in SYC land who knows their way around the guts of a modern PC and would be willing to have a look.

Here's hoping

Mark

 

Mark, 
Is it just getting overheated. Take the back off and give it a good blow out. That would be my Step 1.
Andy

 

If that is the problem Step2, sit it on a lump of 1/2 inch plate as a heat sink. Just thought of something if it misbehaves try blowing some of that aerosol air/ keyboard cleaner to cool it down. I used to use it when fault finding electronic.

Andy

HI Andy
I don't think it is overheatng - certainly the case isn't even warm
Mark