ASUS announced new motherboards for sandybridge

silenthill

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ASUS announced motherboards with Intel's 6-series B3 stepping chipset will begin shipping this week. These fault-free motherboards will be identified by a "New B3 Revision" label on the box as well as a sticker on the motherboard. Additionally, users are also able to verify the chipset stepping via the BIOS or software tools like ASUS SATA Verifier and CPU-Z.
 

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Looks like I will get my P8P67 replaced sooner than I though
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How do they know your motherboard won’t have these problems? From a S/N? Aren’t all boards affected and 5-15%failure rate is estimated. Now suddenly they know which motherboard is going to die? WTF
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How do they know your motherboard won’t have these problems? From a S/N? Aren’t all boards affected and 5-15%failure rate is estimated. Now suddenly they know which motherboard is going to die? WTF
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Most likely by reports/testing....
 
How do they know your motherboard won't have these problems? From a S/N? Aren't all boards affected and 5-15%failure rate is estimated. Now suddenly they know which motherboard is going to die? WTF
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Check the link Winneh posted, it takes you to the Asus website where you enter your serial number and it tells you whether yours is affected or not.
 
Don’t have an asus mobo or a p67/h67, just wondering. They are obviously trying to cut replacement costs. But I would be pissed off if it would say it’s ok and after 1 year my board would go
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After browsing the ASUS website, I have also found another way to identify if you have the SATA problem!
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http://event.asus.co...cted_SATA_port/

This is a program that ASUS have created (I think) to make sure if you do have the affected ports or not
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Better identification than a serial number, me thinks.
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This only works if you have them plugged in, I haven't got my HDDs plugged into the SATA 2 ports because I changed them just incase they F'ed them up.

If I get time tomorrow I will test them out... but me having to shutdown my PC =
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Okay then, just trying to give all the help I can
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(Plus, it'll help for when I get my parts on Saturday, Birthday is for the win
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ASUS has no replacement casts associated with this flaw. Intel is footing the tab for everything associated with it, so I doubt that ASUS will try to side step any replacements at all.

It's good that they're already shipping the new boards now, that happened fast.
 
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