ASUS AMD Socket AM5 Compatible B650M Chipset, Micro-ATX Motherboard, PRIME B650M-A/CSM, Domestic Authorized Dealer

Motherboard has multiple m.2 slots but comes with no anchors or screws to mount them. I bought m.2 drives and cannot even install them so I cant even build the PC. It has spots for the hardware but you have to buy 3rd party risers and hope they fit the non-standard holes.

Had this exact problem on 2 boards. RMA'd the first one back to Amazon, but 2nd board exhibited the exact same behavior. Ran 4 sticks of 8GB RAM from the compatibility list. Every time a known good stick of RAM was in the 3rd DIMM slot, Memory error and would not boot. Had to put a speaker on the motherboard to get the post codes as there are no onboard diagnostic LED's like with MSI, etc. This RAM was known good and worked fine in other systems, and any stick in the 3rd DIMM would elicit the behavior. Further, i could not get the PCIe card i was trying to use to be recognized by either board. Once again, this PCIe card worked fine in other systems. Contacted ASUS support, in the hopes that a BIOS update would fix, no avail. They didn't have a clue other than to return the board either to Amazon or them. (Their 1st tier support didn't seem to understand what a PCIe expansion card was.) The only option they offered was for me to pay to ship the board to ASUS, and i would get a known good b-stock for my trouble. That's not an option when i am paying full price for a board. So back to Amazon they all went and i am using a Asrock PG Lightning and everything just works. Too bad, ASUS' BIOS is amazing. And their in Windows tweaking utilities worked great.

I'm now sending in my replacement to get repaired only two weeks after build. Original one never work out of the box I do not recommend this particular board. And Amazon's return policy totally sucks so remember that when buying something from Amazon!

Was sent a used motherboard advertised as new! Also missing back panel and SSD mounting screws. Very disappointed