Topton N100 Reporting 402 MHz

AnonymousRetard

@roxy Haha, so you went the "dark side" route anyways. Glad it worked out for you! Thanks for sharing all the information. I downloaded the files you shared on google drive and archived the steps you did in case I ever want to tinker further with my BIOS as well in the future. Mine is still running the original version but with seemingly different hidden default settings. Since it is performing as expected though I don't think there's much to fix with another BIOS but I really like tinkering with computers and perhaps I can save a watt or two or something (or perhaps unlock even more performance instead) if I feel like I want to tinker further.

JohnnyUtah1054

@roxy When loading the custom bios on this mini PC did anyone else get the 1.nsh is not recognized as an internal or eternal command. Ive followed the post here and the Server the Home post both give me the same result. NSH errror.PNG

Thx for any help in advance

roxy

Hi @JohnnyUtah1054 ,

no I didnt see anything about 1.nsh.
You can try to use my binary custom bin file. It worked. An it is still working right now. I didn't changed from that moment. Everything works smoothly. I am happy with 2.5 GHz network + firewall.

grety

@roxy Hey looks like the images have been deleted from this thread, any chance you can share the iso again please?

stephenw10

The link to the ISO is still good. It's only the screenshots that were uploaded that are no longer available.

roxy

@grety ,
the link to my Google Drive is still alive ;-)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k60AVx_5Yl_8JkP8lvAryoa0ALUSv0Gv

grety

@roxy Thanks for the link!
However I get the same error another use had 1.nsh is not recognized, maybe we've got different hardware.

McG800

@grety Do you have an NVME drive installed? I was getting this error as well, but once I removed the drive it worked like it should have.

chrcoluk

Interesting, these topton n100's ship with a really crippled bios, can change hardly anything, they have also have a high default power limit as well. So it is tempting to flash.

binhex01

Super useful post, thanks for the details guys, i managed to get my cheap Chinese N100 BIOS flashed with 'Power & Performance' unlocked which then allowed me to set PL1 and PL2 and finally get some decent performance out of the box (was getting stuck at 402 Mhz on all cores like the OP).

So I have written up exactly what i did including photos from 'thys' forum post over on servethehome.com and the modified BIOS with full instruction on how to flash it and bundled it up into a zip HERE.

IMPORTANT - Please ensure you read the ENTIRE readme.txt (included in the zip) before considering flashing the BIOS.

alirx

Greetings, guys!

I have 6-port CWWK N100 box (CW-AL_6L), no PL settings in bios as well, although mine boost fine, but gets quite hot (around 50C doing basically nothing as it's not yet configured for things i want it to do, and that's after I changed thermal paste to smth decent). So I'd like to lower power limits (I belive they are set to 25W by default, but have no way to confirm it).

I've managed to find and flash newer BIOS for this box on CWWK site, thinking that it would unlock it. But no.

How exactly do you mod the bios for your 4 port version?

Or should i even bother and better to look into SpeedShift tunables and try to adjust power consumption that way?

Tzvia

@alirx I have that CWWK 6 port box (the version with the tall heat-sync fins) running PFSense and yea it got hot because the settings are locked-down and not visible on the bios provided by CWWK. Not set optimally by default, that's for sure. There has been at least one 'third party' bios mod for this found on the Serve the Home Forums, (https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/cwwk-i5-1235u-6-port-i226-report.39341/) by user 'fta', you really have to read through the posts and be 100% positive that it is compatible with your board revision before making the attempt. I read through it, opened the case of my router, compared what i had to his and others there and decided to take the chance. Thankfully in my case it worked. With the settings exposed via the modded bios, I was able to apply the recommended settings from that long thread and mine now idles in the mid-upper 20s' c. I've got the 8505CPU btw. But 'out of the box' mine was disappointing, to say the least.