After rebooting the device about 10 times and installing linux on it i have never had a device run into a soft lock on a cpu core before.  The issue was in the bios and was fixed by setting to all defaults.  Also getting into the bios is not stated in the documentation given with the computer you have to press the "DELETE" button instead of the standard F1 or F2 keys.  The little computer still works well with ubuntu/mint and works well for low power applications.For every 9 days of up time it will fail once.  The hardware is not reliable.