where reranking mattered on mini PC

[quietsupply11]

A couple things I'd check first. On mini PC, the easiest win is often to back off the aggressive settings and see whether the problem survives.

My first guess would be this: Start by verifying the driver/runtime combo, then test with a smaller prompt, then look at speculative decoding. Not glamorous advice, but repeatable baselines save a lot of time.

There are a few different conversations hiding inside this thread, so being explicit about the goal helps.