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*****SANDYBRIDGE MOTHERBOARD CHIPSET ISSUE*****
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Duncan if you are that worried about your data though matey, dont do bleeding edge..
Exactly the same as if you were writing data and had a power cut and did not have a UPS.
You will loose the data you were writing for sure, causing that data to be corrupted, but all other data would be intact.
For those who are mega worried about data and can't be without their PC, then buy yourself a SATA controller card and connect your devices to that if your using ports 2-5 on your SB motherboard. Otherwise wait a few days/week until the motherboard vendors release official statements and action plans.
Intel themselves stated they could only get the issue to happen in a heated up chamber with higher voltages now I'd assume most of you are in well ventilated cases and not running above stock voltage on the motherboard chipset and as such the chances of seeing this issue are very low, no doubt sub the 5% Asus are claiming.
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duncanm, as someone who is just following the threads im not taking sides i have disagreed with OCUK many times, personal insults are not welcome on here so i choose my words carfully:
Your post are coming over as you acting like a plonker, chill out wait untill ocuk has more info and stop going like your data is MI5 we all have p0rn.
on a serious not just take a breath dude it will be sorted one way or another
Your post are coming over as you acting like a plonker, chill out wait untill ocuk has more info and stop going like your data is MI5 we all have p0rn.
on a serious not just take a breath dude it will be sorted one way or another
Soldato
Thanks Gibbo. When I get my board back i'll be putting my SSD and data drive on the Sata III ports and only my optical on the Sata II port.
Are Overclockers trying to recreate the Sata II fault on a test rig?
Remember SATA III ports are fine as are ports 0 and 1. Just 2-5 are affected.
Then if you need more, just buy a cheap SATA card, they are like £15-£30.
Then remember press makes something seem far worse than it is, if Intel had to increases voltages and temperatures to get this problem to show itself I doubt most end users will witness the issue.
Soldato
No excuse for that. You then question my replies to yourself?
I'm sorry but their is no conspirancy here. Intel have still NOT released a proper statement or an official recall.
So I think you are worrying alittle too much, hell your system isn't about to implode.
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"You can coax the problem out earlier by testing the PCH at increased voltage and temperature levels. By increasing one or both of these values you can simulate load over time and that’s how the problem was initially discovered."
You are pretty much right.duncanm, as someone who is just following the threads im not taking sides i have disagreed with OCUK many times, personal insults are not welcome on here so i choose my words carfully:
Your post are coming over as you acting like a plonker, chill out wait untill ocuk has more info and stop going like your data is MI5 we all have p0rn.
on a serious not just take a breath dude it will be sorted one way or another
As much as anything getting rubbed up the wrong way by people saying don't worry there isn't a problem instead of no one really knows but you should be ok.
Actually most of the data is a mixture fraps and video footage that I haven't got around to properly editing.
6TB of porn would be O_O
Will just disconnect the drives and grab a controller if it's going to be a long wait for a fix.
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You do realise the only data at risk would be the data thats been written to at the time, so its not all your data just be what was written to at the time.
Also yes there is an issue but the issue is nowhere near as bad as you seem to think it is. Intel themselves have said to manifest the issue they had to go in a thermal chamber with higher temperatures and voltages to see the issue and Asus have also commented saying 5%.
My Sandybridge rig here is still running happily and its had absurb voltages thrown the the motherboard and CPU as I was attempting to kill it, yet it still lives and everything is working fine including both HDD's and optical drive which are connected to the regular SATA ports.
We shall get some deals posted up on controller cards for those who want to air on the side of caution as any recall/rma situation if it happens will still be a good month away as B3 revisions won't be available until March-April time.
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Exactly. And the fact that it doesn't kill HDDs
I'll play devils advocate here...
My one week old C300 died today.
I'm not saying it was down to this fault, but no one can be 100% and claim it wasn't either.
Soldato
You have (had) an SSD not a HDD.
If you were using it properly then it would have been connected to the 6GB/s ports which are unaffected with this issue.
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Are you suggesting that an SSD may be vulnerable?
Now, I'm not entirely sure which ports 2-5 are, but on my board, if you start from 0 being the far left, then 2-5 would be 2x3Gb/s ports and 2xIntel 6Gb/s.
Left to right it goes 4x3Gb/s -> 2x Intel 6Gb/s -> 2x Marvell 6Gb/s.
I keep seeing people saying it is only the 3Gb/s ports that are affected, but considering there are 8 ports, and the 3Gb/s start on the end, it would be illogical to number them 2-5, no?
yes, 100% I can say for definate that it wasn't because of this fault.
The SATA III ports are generally a different color. Some motherboards have Marvell SATA contollers and these are unaffected by this fault as well, which is why you have 8 ports, the 6 intel ones and the two marvell ones. It's logical because the 6 intel ports are labelled 1 to 6 and the Marvell ones 7 and 8.
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Its only SATA 2 (port numbers 2-5) that are affected by this issue from what I understand.
Soldato
No one "has" to use the ports.
Unless you have filled all the others, as SATA 6GB/s ports are backwards compatible with SATA 3GB/s devices
You will probably be fine, if you have really sensitive data and don't want to take any risk just buy a SATA card or just unplug that drive.
These boards have circa 8 SATA ports, only 4 are effected so plug your devices into the 4 un-affected ports.
If you have more than 4 devices then plug your hard drives into the 4 un-affected ports and plug your optical drives into the affected ports. If you still need more ports then take the risk which is extremely minimal, buy a SATA card or wait for further updates on a fix/rma solution.
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