1 00:00:00,599 --> 00:00:07,680 so as some of you may have heard there's been lots of hubub all over the 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:12,160 internets about this but Intel's Sandy 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:15,680 bridge chipsets that is the p67 and h67 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:19,680 chipsets are affected by a bit of an 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:22,480 issue that can cause the SATA 2 3 gbit 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:30,439 pers second ports on your motherboard to degrade slowly over time and then die 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:32,439 okay so basically right now is if you 8 00:00:30,439 --> 00:00:36,000 look around on the major etail sites you probably can't buy a Sandy Bridge board 9 00:00:34,559 --> 00:00:39,640 looks like it's probably going to be around the April May time frame before 10 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:44,840 you can actually buy a Sandy Bridge board but I'm going to show you guys if 11 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:51,199 you already have a system based on p67 or h67 chipsets how you can prevent this 12 00:00:48,559 --> 00:00:55,280 issue from affecting you in the near term while you wait for the replacement 13 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:59,359 boards to come on the market and for yours to be swapped for one okay so you 14 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:03,600 can see right here the way I have my Sandy Bridge system set up is that I 15 00:01:01,399 --> 00:01:11,000 have my two SATA 2 devices that is my DVD burner as well as my Intel x25 M SSD 16 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:18,080 plugged into these two ports so you can see right here that these are SATA 3g5 17 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:19,920 SATA 3 G6 SATA 3 G3 and SATA 3 G4 so 18 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:24,920 what I'm going to do and you're going to need to consult the manual of your 19 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:28,040 particular motherboard find the section 20 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:30,040 about the internal IO connectors and 21 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:34,479 which ones are which in this case they are labeled on the board and you are 22 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:42,320 going to want to take those ports unplug them from any devices and plug them into 23 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:44,799 one of the SATA 3 6 gbit pers second 24 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:48,840 ports on your board so in this case these two are running off the Intel 25 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:52,320 chipset and those are still okay even though they're running off the same 26 00:01:50,079 --> 00:01:56,840 chipset as the SATA 23 gbit per second ports and I could also plug them into 27 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:02,560 these ones which are running off of a third party chipset so any one of these 28 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:06,200 four port is fine to run my devices off 29 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:09,440 of in the meantime now bear in mind that 30 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:12,280 Intel recommends or Intel advises that 31 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:19,319 the SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports are more likely to die from heavy use so by 32 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:22,519 avoiding using those ports or let's say for example you have a three Drive 33 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:27,760 configuration you have an SSD a hard drive and you have an optical drive and 34 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:33,360 you only have two SATA 3 6 GB per second ports well Intel recommends you lightly 35 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:35,360 use the SATA 2 ports if you have to so 36 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:38,360 you take your SSD and your hard drive and you plug them into these ones so you 37 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:43,800 don't get any data corruption or potentially even data loss by using the 38 00:02:40,959 --> 00:02:48,440 good say the 3 6 gbit per second ports and then you take your optical drive 39 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:51,120 which unless you're burning a DVD which 40 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:56,800 probably is a very lowrisk sort of thing if something goes wrong so you take any 41 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:00,920 sort of non-critical devices and plug those into the SATA 2 3 gbit per second 42 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:06,920 ports so thank you for checking out my video today on lineus Tech tips and 43 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,920 don't forget to subscribe