Sandy Bridge Chipset Issue - How to Avoid Damaging Your Motherboard Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so as some of you may have heard there's been lots of hubub all over the
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internets about this but Intel's Sandy
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bridge chipsets that is the p67 and h67
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chipsets are affected by a bit of an
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issue that can cause the SATA 2 3 gbit
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pers second ports on your motherboard to degrade slowly over time and then die
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okay so basically right now is if you
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look around on the major etail sites you probably can't buy a Sandy Bridge board
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looks like it's probably going to be around the April May time frame before
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you can actually buy a Sandy Bridge board but I'm going to show you guys if
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you already have a system based on p67 or h67 chipsets how you can prevent this
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issue from affecting you in the near term while you wait for the replacement
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boards to come on the market and for yours to be swapped for one okay so you
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can see right here the way I have my Sandy Bridge system set up is that I
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have my two SATA 2 devices that is my DVD burner as well as my Intel x25 M SSD
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plugged into these two ports so you can see right here that these are SATA 3g5
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SATA 3 G6 SATA 3 G3 and SATA 3 G4 so
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what I'm going to do and you're going to need to consult the manual of your
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particular motherboard find the section
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about the internal IO connectors and
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which ones are which in this case they are labeled on the board and you are
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going to want to take those ports unplug them from any devices and plug them into
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one of the SATA 3 6 gbit pers second
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ports on your board so in this case these two are running off the Intel
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chipset and those are still okay even though they're running off the same
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chipset as the SATA 23 gbit per second ports and I could also plug them into
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these ones which are running off of a third party chipset so any one of these
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four port is fine to run my devices off
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of in the meantime now bear in mind that
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Intel recommends or Intel advises that
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the SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports are more likely to die from heavy use so by
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avoiding using those ports or let's say for example you have a three Drive
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configuration you have an SSD a hard drive and you have an optical drive and
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you only have two SATA 3 6 GB per second ports well Intel recommends you lightly
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use the SATA 2 ports if you have to so
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you take your SSD and your hard drive and you plug them into these ones so you
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don't get any data corruption or potentially even data loss by using the
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good say the 3 6 gbit per second ports and then you take your optical drive
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which unless you're burning a DVD which
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probably is a very lowrisk sort of thing if something goes wrong so you take any
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sort of non-critical devices and plug those into the SATA 2 3 gbit per second
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