I opened the expansion-port slot and saw that the plastic for the backpanel had melted and left waxy trails all over. Following setting to mode 5 and trying to run a kernel compile.
This is probably due to the fact that the fan is useless because there is no airflow in the device. The fan is just pushing air outside of the machine rather than through it. Someone has made a Fan shroud for Devterm to fix this defect.