Miniforum’s MS-01 BIOS Tweaks

I’m just outlining my tweaks to my MS-01s BIOS for future posterity. This is based on the 1.26 BIOS that was released in October (see previous article about updates).

As a note, I’m using these as my K3s cluster nodes and so don’t need some of the onboard items that I’m disabling. Also, only modifications to default are listed below.

• Main
  • Update System Date and Time if required
• Advanced
  • Onboard Devices settings
    • VMD setup menu
      • Enable VMD controller: Disabled (not using RAID)
    • HD Audio: Disabled
    • SA-PCIE PORT
      • PCIE4.0x4 SSD ASPM: Disabled
    • PCH-PCIE PORT
      • I226-V NIC ASPM: Disabled*
      • I226-LM ASPM: Disabled*
      • WIFI: Disabled
      • WIFI ASPM: Disabled

*I am disabling ASPM on the NICs due to a lot of wonky networking items. Based on a reddit thread, this definitely fixed it.