- Jun 21, 2006
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So yeah. I bought a GIGABYTE GA-P67-UD4 last February. Then of course the whole flawed chipset issue came to light, so there was obviously a mass recall/RMA setup.
Well, I had just built my system at the time, and didn't feel like tearing it all apart. And since Intel said it could be a number of years before your SATA II ports even begins to fail, I said screw it and just decided to ride it out. And even when it does fail, it will just be the SATA II ports, etc, etc.
Well fast forward to a couple weeks ago, and my PC starts blue screening every few days. And then one day I'm working on a document that was saved on one of the drives plugged into a SATA II port, and it says it can no longer read/write to the drive.
Ok, no big whoop. I knew it would happen eventually. Time to just do an advanced replacement and get a new board.
Today I get my replacement board, and I'm fairly certain the one they've given me is one of the first revisions, with the flawed chipset intact.
1) The board says GA-P67A-UD4, with no mention on the board of B2 or B3 stepping.
2) It says "Rev 1.0" in the bottom left hand corner.
3) According to GIGABYTE's RMA website (http://rma.gigabyte.us/DirectRMA/EndUser_Main.asp), The serial number indicates it was manufactured in the 47th week of 2010, which would mean it still has the flawed chipset.
Serial number on new board is SN 1047xxxxx. Serial number on my current board is SN 1048xxxxx, which means the board I received is OLDER than the board I originally purchased.
So yeah. I'm about to call GIGABYTE, where I will likely talk to some minimum wage doofus who has no idea what I'm even talking about. This should be fun.
Well, I had just built my system at the time, and didn't feel like tearing it all apart. And since Intel said it could be a number of years before your SATA II ports even begins to fail, I said screw it and just decided to ride it out. And even when it does fail, it will just be the SATA II ports, etc, etc.
Well fast forward to a couple weeks ago, and my PC starts blue screening every few days. And then one day I'm working on a document that was saved on one of the drives plugged into a SATA II port, and it says it can no longer read/write to the drive.
Ok, no big whoop. I knew it would happen eventually. Time to just do an advanced replacement and get a new board.
Today I get my replacement board, and I'm fairly certain the one they've given me is one of the first revisions, with the flawed chipset intact.
1) The board says GA-P67A-UD4, with no mention on the board of B2 or B3 stepping.
2) It says "Rev 1.0" in the bottom left hand corner.
3) According to GIGABYTE's RMA website (http://rma.gigabyte.us/DirectRMA/EndUser_Main.asp), The serial number indicates it was manufactured in the 47th week of 2010, which would mean it still has the flawed chipset.
Serial number on new board is SN 1047xxxxx. Serial number on my current board is SN 1048xxxxx, which means the board I received is OLDER than the board I originally purchased.
So yeah. I'm about to call GIGABYTE, where I will likely talk to some minimum wage doofus who has no idea what I'm even talking about. This should be fun.
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