Asus B250 Mining Expert

B250 Mining Expert Motherboards Asus Usa

Amazon.com: Customer reviews: ASUS B250 MINING EXPERT LGA1151 DDR4 HDMI B250 ATX Motherboard for Cryptocurrency Mining (BTC) with 19 PCIe Slots and USB 3.1 Gen1

Bought 2 of these HE70 Mining Master motherboards. Wanted a spare to keep the mining up if the board ever quite. Just a couple days over 1 month this board would no longer boot with more than 4 GPU's installed. Amazon was very nice to me and took back this motherboard and gave me a refund, even though a few days over their return window. Figuring it was just a bad part on this board, I didn't order a backup. Just about 2 weeks later, the second motherboard did the identical same thing. It will still boot with only 4 GPU's but no more than that.I bought this motherboard to eventually have 20 GPU's on it. Now what?ASUS you need to not release product not fully tested, or perhaps knowingly release what you know is going to go bad quickly. 2 for 2 is good odds that this is a known issue, yet ASUS tech people haven't a clue, or act like they don't anyway. Really upsetting.Need to try something else now, but what?Not good.EDIT- Got it fixed! Changing my rating as ASUS came out with a second update since I bought these boards. The update fixed this issue, which was totally unfixable before I did this update. Kudos to Asus!!! I guess it's just the idea of losing 2 identical boards in 2 weeks to the same issue. Sort of bummed me out I guess. Going from * star to **** stars now.

Edit -- 9 Months later. This motherboard has glitches which according to Asus is because I am not using actual mining GPUs. Might be, but I sort of doubt it. Most GPU's it will run is 14. It's not happy with 14 however and one GPU will drop off and force a reboot. The reboot will not find the lost GPU however and to get that GPU found, you must do a full shutdown, unplug the USB to that specific GPU, reboot, let windows fully stabilize and then do a full shutdown again, plug the GPU's USB connector back in, reboot, and check device manager to make sure windows found it. If it has, start your miners and it will work for a day, week maybe even a month, but it will drop the GPU at some point, and you will have to do this routine again. Very likely Windows 10 is the root cause of this problem to some extent, but not the limit of 14 GPU's. There simply isn't anyway to get BIOS to see more then 14. Put another GPU in and it will never even post. Run 13 GPUs and you are home free. But, 13 isn't 20, so Asus should man up and say it's only good for 13 GPUs. They no longer make this board. No wonder, it has never worked as it was suppose to for anyone.