Intel announce SATA design flaw in new 6 series chipsets

[Stephen!]

I've RMA'd this piece of crap. The P8P67 motherboard to me seems totally unreliable. Just tried to reflash the BIOS (funilly enough using the CrashFree utility) and now it refuses to output any video. Fantastic. /sarcasm.

Hoping to get a Gigabyte board instead, not sure if I should wait for the new boards or just order a new mobo now.

You would only have to RMA it again when Gigabyte get the updated chipsets. Which will be in about a month.

[Recursion]

Yeah but Intel were saying like 5% of boards were affected weren't they? I could be prepared to take the chance and if it dies on me later return it to GigaByte under warranty.

[Firehorse]

Yeah but Intel were saying like 5% of boards were affected weren't they? I could be prepared to take the chance and if it dies on me later return it to GigaByte under warranty.

Although what if it happens just after it goes out of warranty? After all it's a problem that won't show itself for a while, and intel would have been testing those motherboards to the limit.

[N!ck]

Yeah but Intel were saying like 5% of boards were affected weren't they? I could be prepared to take the chance and if it dies on me later return it to GigaByte under warranty.

It's not just a problem of the board dieing/making the SATA ports slow. It can screw up your drives.

[Stephen!]

It's not just a problem of the board dieing/making the SATA ports slow. It can screw up your drives.

Where's it say that? Everybody else is saying it's just the port failing.

[N!ck]

Where's it say that? Everybody else is saying it's just the port failing.

I can't remember exactly, but something about the drive thinking it's gone bad and giving itself a bad SMART report when it's actually the port messing up the data.

[Recursion]

Got my shipping info through from eBuyer to send this POS back. Got a GigaByte P67A-UD3P arriving tomorrow, I'm not waiting until what could be April for a fixed chipset, I'm only using my DVD drive and eSATA port on the 2Gb/s ports anyway which I barely use.

[Jam]

Is there a page setup for returns on eBuyer or have you just returned regularly? Can't seem to find any mention of it except the forums.

[Recursion]

I returned it through their returns system, not because of the Sandybridge issue but because of all the other issues I'm having (and in trying to fix it, the problem is now worse! LMAO).

Filed the RMA last night, rang today, they picked up after like 30 seconds, asked for the RMA number, my name and email and two minutes later I'd got the emails through saying the guy had approved free courier collection and that the RMA had been approved.

[Stephen!]

Just hope they find the fault or else you'll land yourself a nasty testing charge :p