The m2.2 SSD port has issues and will not recognize in BIOS as a boot drive
Response from https://www.asus.comBy Customer Service, November 7, 2024
Dear Valued Customer,
I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues with your motherboard. To improve system compatibility, please update your BIOS to the latest version. You can find the BIOS file on our Online ASUS Help Desk. If the issue persists, feel free to contact me with any technical or general questions. You can reach me at customerloyalty@asus.com. Please include a link to this post for reference.
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Best Regards, Adrian ASUS Customer Loyalty – US Support
This ia good TUF series motherboard. It has 2 m.2 slots and 6 sata connections. One m.2 slot is pcie gen 3.0. The one closest to the graphic card alot is pcie gen 4. It has good heatsync coverage over the vrms. Decent amout of usb ports on the rear and the front. All in all it runs my Ryzen 5 5600x3d cpu and Radeon Rx 7600 just fine.
No USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps Type-C connector to utilize the front case port, no bluetooth, and perhaps a minor issue is the Wi-Fi 6 antenna doesn't have a magnet to stick it to the case like I could with my last MB. This TUF GAMING B550-PLUS WIFI II was part of a CPU, MB, RAM bundle offered by MC. I'm a fan of ASUS products so I'll just use a bluetooth dongle for my controller, use double-stick tape on the antenna, and just use the C port on the back of the PC.
Response from https://www.asus.comBy CLM, November 21, 2024
Dear Consumer Advocate,
Thank you for being an ASUS fan.
We appreciate your feedback. Information coming from valuable customers, like you, will help us continuously improve our future product offering. This motherboard has a USB 3.2 Gen 1 header, you can use this to connect your front USB3.2 Gen 2 port since both have the same pinout signal or headers. However, you will not achieve the data transfer speed of a USB 3.2 Gen 2. This motherboard has a built-in Bluetooth controller, you need to install the driver to work properly. For the WIFI, you simply connect an antenna to the rear connectors to improve signal strength.
Should you need further assistance with the product, please email me at cl-rodel@asus.com and I would be more than happy to help. Or you are most welcome to call Product Support Hotline at: 1(888) 678-3688. Also, you can chat with an ASUS live support agent from the link: https://www.asus.com/us/support/article/1135/.
Good overall, only problem I had was that the wifi drivers weren't there and it's a touch awkward to download them that way. Happened to have an old usb dongle to work around that. Once that was fixed it's been fine.
Well made product works great wish the instructions were a little bit more understandable to vague but worked through it this was my first build wish it had a 3.1 usb port on the board which it doesn’t need to buy an adapter if you want to use it on your case great other than the 2 issues I found with the instructions and the usb port there’s not much else to say but the lettering on the board I wish that was a little bit more bolder so you can read it much better the board itself is amazing it handles the load great if your a gamer it looks great I also coupled it with an asus 1000 watt power supply which works very very well fun build had a some learning curves on the way but no one said it would be easy but great product for a first timer