no good 3 LED flash continues. waiting for my friend to come by with his mini pc and im going to try his memory.
I highly doubt its a memory issue as this is the exact same thing that happened when NUC #2 smelled like something burning inside and gave me the 3 LED flash. that nuc never started again and was exchanged for the current nuc #3. current nuc never smelled like there was something burning. this incident came directly after bios 45 loaded.