Newegg TV: Sandy Bridge Design Issue Explanation & Workaround

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Intel identified a design error with their P67 & H67 chipsets this week, which has prompted some confusion as to what early adopters should do if they purchased a system or motherboard based on the Socket 1155 Sandy Bridge platform. Essentially, 4 of the 6 SATA ports that are controlled by the H67/P67 chipsets are flawed and should not be used.

We wanted to share a hardware work-around with our viewers to bypass the issue for now, and also provide some more in-depth explanation regarding this design error. We've also created a thread on our EggXpert community forums where you can find up-to-date information on how we at Newegg are helping to resolve this problem. Please check this forum thread periodically as we will do our best to update it once we have more information (Subject to change without notice):
http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread...


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Camera, Editing: Lam
Talking: Paul

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[LALIN ROBLES]

Intel, no long time ago we have bought 1156 and 1366 MOBOs and CPUs, and u come up with your new 1155!... what should we do?... to buy new products again? well Intel... accept your punishment now!

[mikeccuk2006]

why cant they just make all ports sata III?

[DazhFX]

This is the very early version of H67 and P67. At that time, there was no Z68 chipset, only H61, H67 and P67. Don't worry, that was last year's issue, today, we don't.

[Matthew Mccormack]

i just bought a 1155 socket motherboard but it has a z68 chipset do i have to worry?

[Tritium8]

my DVD drive, which uses a Sata2 port just stopped beeing recognised :(

SSD and conventional Harddrive occupy the "good" sata ports.

wonder what my retailer will say...

[turbotonic27]

not use them at all, why the fuck do we pay for them then?

[playstationRLZ]

intel dz68bc... got my 2500k @ 4.5 stable ALL DAY!

[0oDarkLordRevano0]

Uhh... You just got a bad board :/

[champsmitty1]

I bought the revision b3 from amazon. Put it together yesterday. Guess what? The SATA ports are fucked. Go figure, they didn't fix the problem. My board is manufactured by intel dp67bgb3. My os won't boot from disk or hdd, so now I have to jump trough hoops to get my CPU working.

I7-2700k

32gb corsair dominator ddr3 ram

Evga gtx 580 gpu

Psu: corsair 1050 hx 80 plus silver

[OghamTheBold]

As clear as clear can be in practical terms

But as clear as mud in terms of explanation of the design issue

How can a bug - get worse over time - capacitors can - meat pies can if left on a radiator - but firmware?

[BoY860]

yea i already started my build. Main parts gtx570 asrock extreme gen4 8gb ddr2066 swiftech hd water block (sick) i still dont know if im getting 2500 or 2600k but its all i need now cant wait

[LEW1S1900]

nahh mate, It's foxed now just buy a B3 revision of the chipset