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I certainly did It was kaput. I tried disconnecting BIOS battery, PC monitor, etc etc...
Thanks for commenting on your NUCs Resume from sleep, a little piece of me died inside because that is not what mine does...

Is someone able to do the following for me, its really straight forward to test for one of my issues:
Enter BIOS
Goto cooling, choose custom upper/lower limit, save and exit. The NUC will reboot
Enter BIOS - is the fan speed and temps reported? On mine they aren't And the fan goes almost full speed.
This will persist between cold boots, reboots and the only way to rectify is load bios defaults.

In my loungeroom this wouldn't be a problem, but in my bedroom it is driving me nuts.

New BIOS 0028

I suggest you try the new BIOS mentioned here

Here is the update log for V28: (What was fixed/improved)
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• Improved fan speed control support.
  
• Added mouse support under [F10] Boot Menu
  
• Intel® Integrator Toolkit (ITK) fixes:
  Cannot update Setup items with ITK.
  Removed duplicate instance of “Unattended BIOS Configuration”
  Added specific project name
  
• Fixed USB2 port compatibility issue
  
• Fixed issue where USB keyboard/mouse fails after USB3 driver is installed under Legacy operating system.
  
• Fixed issue where USB mouse does not work in the Boot menu.
  
• Updated Visual BIOS to version 2.2.4, with Visual Boot Manager version 0.60.
  
• Improved EFI variable protection for Setup variable.
  
• Fixed compliance test issue with Intel® Smart Connect Technology.
  
• Fixed issue where system hangs at POST code 02.
  
• Updated PXE OPROM to v2.59.
  
• Updated Realtek* UNDI Driver to 2.026.
  
• Updated TXE firmware to version 1.0.4.1089 HF4.
  
• Updated processor microcode.
  
• Added support for the F1 hotkey to display Advanced Help Text.
  
• Moved the OS Selection option to the top of the Boot Configuration page.
  
• Updated message when no bootable device is found.
  
• Fixed issue where system hangs at POST code 69 if Primary and Secondary Temperature input is PCH and Memory
  

I'll see if I can produce a result on the test you sugested.

Hi guys I am about to pull the trigger on a DN2820FYKH0 with 4 gb of ram (bundled) and a 5400rpm 750g hard drive the laptop I use now is the same so figured it would be fine but its on its way out : ( 4 years is not bad.

All I plan to do is youtube at 720 maybe check a few websites, and watch basic mkv/mp4/avi videos most at 720 some at 1080, I just want to make sure this little beast can do that, I plan to run xbmcbuntu. Also I do buy my movies and seasons and have a beast of a computer for ripping and gaming but due to where i live I have to get my shows by other means : ( if i want to keep up and not wait for a season to come out on dvd, can this handle downloading and watching at the same time you think?

thanks for any help.

It most certainly can handle the use you mention here. Regarding Download and playback at the same time - I'd imagine limitations, if any, would be the HDD. Simultaneous very high bitrate playback and high download speeds - to/from the same HDD - could be troublesome. This has little to do with the NUC itself, Just try to copy a large file to any HDD, and copy another large file off the same drive simultaneously, and you'll see what I mean (both transfer rates will drop dramatically). This is simply the nature of multiple simultaneous processes on a single storage unit - although an SSD would not suffer this as bad as a mechanical hdd)
You could probably work around this with either a fast SSD, or storing unfinished downloads on a smaller local drive, and do playback from an network/usb drive. If you've already got a 2.5 drive, external usb 3.0/2.0 enclosures can be had for about $10 on ebay.
Personally I don't have a problem with this, but my downloads peak around 1.5MB/s.