BKHD-1264-NAS (Intel N100 mini-ITX)



  • I attach a photo. Is the scheme correct?

    Didn't you saw what is written on the board?


    From left to right top row

    PWR LED (2 & 4) / PWR BTN (6 & 8 )

    . . . .

    . . . .

    From left to right bottom row

    HD LED (1 & 3) / RESET (5 & 7)


    These are pretty much standard front panel connections:

    atx front panel connector at DuckDuckGo

  • The link to download the bios files from the manufacturer's website does not work.

    Can someone tell me where I can download?

    I just wrote to the client service and they confirmed me that the url is not working. However, they gave me another that seems to be working. Please, if your fans are running at max speed before the BIOS update, tell me if the update solves this problem, because I have not made it yet :)


    The link :

    BKHD 1264 NAS – Google Drive


    Edit : the folder leads to the same BIOS I already have... I talked to the engineer that explained me that the PWM feature is not working on this motherboard yet and that is will eventually be handled in the future. But he did not give me any date.

    Edited once, last by GrgMdmn: more information on potential next release ().

  • Hi, new here. I've been using this board for and Proxmox and OMV for the last few weeks without any issues. I decided to upgrade my 8gb ram that came with the board to 16gb. However, the ram I've ordered doesn't work (Corsair Vengeance CMSX16GX5M1A4800C40). It gives me 3 beeps and the boot stops. Before I order a new one, can someone confirm which 16gb ddr5 ram works for this board?


    Other question, the board idles around 16w after a clean installation of OMV. That's with 1x M.2 and 2x HDDs attached. Only after installing docker, setting up shares etc, the board idles around 22w and never goes back to 16w. Is there any way I can get this board back under 20w again? I already turned off the SATA controller and installed ASM1166 PCIe card but that didn't change much.


    Any help is appreciated.



  • I can't get the board to idle below 25w even with all drives spun down (Unraid). I can confirm it works with a Samsung 16GB DDR5 5600MHz SODIMM stick. The BIOS is weird and does not have Power Management options in there, I really hope there is an update coming to expose these settings.

  • I ordered a Crucial SODIMM CL40 (16Gbit) RAM, 32GB and can confirm that it works for this board. :thumbup:

  • I can't get the board to idle below 25w even with all drives spun down (Unraid). I can confirm it works with a Samsung 16GB DDR5 5600MHz SODIMM stick. The BIOS is weird and does not have Power Management options in there, I really hope there is an update coming to expose these settings.

    How are you guys idling below 30 watts with this board? What bios settings or other configs have you customized?

  • How are you guys idling below 30 watts with this board? What bios settings or other configs have you customized?

    Mine idles at 23 watts with all the drives spun down (44 watts with 4 drives spun up but idle).


    I decided to upgrade my 8gb ram that came with the board to 16gb. However, the ram I've ordered doesn't work (Corsair Vengeance CMSX16GX5M1A4800C40). It gives me 3 beeps and the boot stops. Before I order a new one, can someone confirm which 16gb ddr5 ram works for this board?

    I had the same issue with Crucial DDR5-4800 16GB (CT16G48C40S5). Went back to the old 8GB stick.

    I can't get the board to idle below 25w even with all drives spun down (Unraid). The BIOS is weird and does not have Power Management options in there, I really hope there is an update coming to expose these settings.

    Same (well technically mine idles at 23W but there's no reason why it shouldn't be able to get down to ~12W with the N100). I ran across this reddit post which led me to this unraid forum post about hacking the bios to possibly enable some of the power management options, but that seems way over my head. The board is BKHD made but different model. Maybe someone here wants to give it a stab? If so, please let us know how it goes, and send us the bios!

  • Hey all, I'm not an OMV user but I am utilizing this board in a little multi-purpose home server environment. I just wanted to mention that I have the v1.1 bios image on my board already (ordered from Amazon for $179 for the convenience of getting it overnight). There are multiple options for controlling fan speeds, turning off fans at certain temps, etc. The AC power loss setting is also configurable in BIOS. I see around 50w idling with 4 12TB platter drives installed, for reference.


    Just wanted to mention that I am having issues with the system coming to a halt about once a week running Ubuntu LTS version whatever the hell. Kernel logs have nothing between the hangup and the reboot but I am seeing IO errors on one of my disks so going to replace that and see what happens.


    Anyhow, for the reference of anyone curious.. this board has been really solid. I'm running Radarr, Lidarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Transmission w/ VPN, NZBget, Jellyfin, and a few other services on the system. I started with CasaOS but I'm growing comfortable enough with Docker now that it's more of a hinderance to me, but it was a great starting point for learning since my only other experience was essentially just a few dozen Pi projects.


    I basically registered because I saw the chatter about RAM issues. I am running 16GB with the module below.


    Here's the BOM for the budget system I put together with this board:


    $180 - N100 Board

    Note: I only bought this on Amazon because I could get it overnight. Much cheaper on AliExpress.

    $80 - Mini-ITX NAS Case w/ 4 3.5" Drive Trays

    $36 - Apevia ITX-AP300W power supply

    Note: If I could do this again, I'd spend a little more for a modular option like the ITX-PFC400W. There is plenty of room for cable slack in the case, but would rather it not be there for airflow purposes.

    $42 - Crucial 16GB DDR5 4800MHz CL40 Laptop Memory, SODIMM CT16G48C40S5

    $19.99 - Silicon Power 256GB NVMe SSD (Gen 3) for OS.

    Note: This board's m2 slots are Gen 3 so don't waste money on faster drives.

    $60 - Crucial 1TB NVMe SSD (Gen 4)

    Note: This is my scratch drive, downloading and unpacking torrents & NZBs here keeps my platter drives from working overtime as they don't see the downloads in progress until they're assembled and subsequently transferred into my long-term storage folders on the platter drives.

    $12 - 4x 18" bundled SATA3 cables for platter drives.

    $17 - Noctua 80mm PWM Fan (optional, replaced the included chassis fan)

    $26 - PCIEx1 USB Expansion Card

    Note: Since this case has front USB3.0 and the N100 board has no 3.0 headers, I chose this board because in addition to adding 2x USB-C and 3x USB-A ports on the back, it has an on-board internal USB3.0 header that I was able to plug the front case ports into.


    This put the total build cost around $475 before adding my platter drives. Some of this is optional, you can use the included chassis fan, you can share an M2 drive for OS and scratch, you can get the N100 board from AliExpress, etc. and probably bring the cost down to <$400.


    For bulk storage, I picked up four 12TB 3.5" drives second-hand from serverpartsdeals @ ~$90 each. I am using mergerfs to treat all four as one storage device. My backups are done to a second array, setup in the same manner on my gaming PC with differential backups weekly. I also have a cron job that copies the docker appdata files and other stuff to the scratch drive + Google Drive since that doesn't take up much space.


    For reference, I forgot to repaste the stock cooler on the board. I reach ~65C under 100% usage and my platter & SSDs are sitting around 95-100F under load. I still intend to add additional cooling and heatsinks, maybe even find another cooler for the CPU at some point.


    Solid unit, I intend to build another for NAS and Immich usage soon without a case, I put together a 10" wide server rack with 80/20 and have been buying shelves (like a shelf with mini-itx mount holes) from DeskPi Rackmate. They have some pre-made 10" racks but I really wanted 12U of working space to incorporate a 12v and 5v PDU, a few rPis, and a home-built 12v battery with transfer switch for power conditioning and UPS functionality.


    Hope this helps someone out there, in any case, good luck with your projects!

  • Hello.

    Can anyone tell me how to activate wake on lan in the bios of this board?

    Thank!

    Hi, in the bios there is a section that manage power and hibernation set on auto. Move it to manual to have acces to wake up settings.

  • I have the same motherboard and it is working great... Except the fans that are always running at maximum speed, even if they are PWM... I don't understand since there is a smart fans mode inside of the BIOS where you can set temperature limits but it does not seem to change anything so my homelab is just like an apache helicopter...


    I have reflashed the BIOS (but it is the same BIOS version so I had low chances of success). When restarting, firstly... nothing on the screen. I was afraid to have messed up my board, but after having unplugged RJ45, HDMI and USB device, it restarted and the signal came back... with the same problem. HOWEVER, during the time between computer restart and BIOS boot, the fans were running at much lower speed so that could be a proof that this motherboard is technically able to regulate the fans speeds... But the bios is probably badly coded... :/

    Hello and thank you for sharing this information.

    I'm in the same boat.

    Do you know if there has been any news?

    I would also be willing to purchase an external fan controller.

    The fan noise is too loud.

    The only constraint for me is the need to use TrueNas Scale 24.10.2.

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