you can further lower the temperature of the cpu by replacing the stock thermal pad with fujipoly thermal pad.
@thk12345: Thanks for the idea, I will keep that in mind (maybe later - I just got it a few days ago). Trying anything/everything software to keep it cool and quiet for normal usage. Surfing the internet should not burn you! I mean that’s crazy! Any suggestions - I am all ears. Right now I have intel-undervolt (all at -50) and cpufreq using pstates with a cap at mostly only 30% and it runs smooth with the latest Fedora 32 kernel, just something is still sucking the battery a bit more than what I anticipated. Any ideas? Maybe we should move this to another thread? Thanks in advance!!!
I started another thread:
Using Intel XTU realy helps a lot. When setting the core voltage to -75 mV (80 mV is not always stable), setting the TDP to 4 watt the 8100Y will run, when stressed continuesly at around 2 Ghz at 70 C temperature.
Settingthe TDP to 8watt (whichseems to be the most) then the 8100Y will run at approx 2.7 GHz continuousely during a stress test.
I finally got the flashing working for me. The mistake I had made may be considered a bit stupid, but still I believe others could be confused in the same way, so I’ll explain it here.
My error was that I did not have the “efi/boot/” directory on my USB drive, but instead had copied all the files to the root of the file system. This did not work.
Today I learned that the EFI shell has to be in the folder “efi/boot” on the drive. I still wasn’t sure which files go there and which to the root, so I just copied everything to both places, and it worked. To summarise, the USB drive which worked looked like this:
BootIa32.efi
BootX64.efi
ec.bin
eFuitX64.efi
Startup.nsh
efi/
boot/
BootIa32.efi
BootX64.efi
ec.bin
eFuitX64.efi
Startup.nsh
Looking back at the official instructions, they do show an “efi” folder in a screenshot, but none of its contents nor any instructions, so I don’t feel all too stupid for not figuring it out:
In the official RAR archive the directory structure seems correct, so if people just unpack that onto the drive, it probably usually works. I must have had some other issue the first time I tried, else I wouldn’t have changed the structure, but I don’t remember.
Anyway, the computer is sooo nice and quiet now!
Hi.
Congratulations on your work!! that is something very special!!
I just bought the Minibook Intel Celeron J4125 version and I would like to try your path. That github you link, does not exist anymore. Can you please help me??
Hi! Did you ever get this running? I just bought the J4125 version myself, and I would also be interessted in the EC patch for this version.