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Seriously considering not returning my P67 board for exchange

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gdday4

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My ASRock P67 Extreme4 has performed flawlessly for 7 weeks. Due to the extra Marvell controller I can handle my optical, SSD and HDD with no problem and do not expect to add any more SATA devices over the life of this build. If I exchange it I'll get an extra 14 months of warranty. I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. Am I nuts?
 
if the (time)cost of tearing down your build > fixing the problem, and you have a solution for your problem(the Marvell controller), then sure, its fine for you not to exchange it
 
I have a friend whose rig needs changing to a B3 revision motherboard but he is too busy playing games now till he can't get his hands off long enough for me to change the motherboard.

So there is a possibility that he might not change his motherboard since there is already 1 SSD, 1 HDD and 1 ODD currently connected and most probably another 2TB of HDD which I think is for storage.

That makes 4 SATA devices and I think that is as many SATA devices he will ever put. I just hope I could change his motherboard though but Crysis 2 just came out. :hmm:
 
Well we would like to see you return all of the older “B2” stepping boards, we can understand if you are unable to return them for one reason or another. We do advise that you if you do keep an older board that you disable all of the SATA 2 ports that are affected by this issue (which you have done by using the marvel controller).

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team
 
I agree, it's a pain in the butt to take my system apart and replace the mobo, and hope I don't have to reinstall Windows etc. when I do. Apparently using a system builders version of Win 7 is a bit more picky in relation to hardware changes.
I am not using the "bad" controllers' ports either.
The only concern is reselling my stuff, a savvy buyer will know which boards to look out for and might not buy it.
 
nOOky said:
I agree, it's a pain in the butt to take my system apart and replace the mobo, and hope I don't have to reinstall Windows etc. when I do. Apparently using a system builders version of Win 7 is a bit more picky in relation to hardware changes.
I am not using the "bad" controllers' ports either.
The only concern is reselling my stuff, a savvy buyer will know which boards to look out for and might not buy it.
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Yeah, those were additional considerations I didn't mention. I have the system builder's Win 7 and resale would be diminished.
 
Newegg did cross shipping for me as long as I gave them a credit card as a deposit. Newegg even gave me a UPS shipping label at no charge to me.

I did not have to reinstall Windows but I'm going to anyway.

Yes it was a pain to take my system apart and took a little over two hours because of my after market CPU cooler. I was having problems with my BD-ROM & DVD-RW drives that were not plugged into the SATA 6Gbps ports.

The back panel is slightly redesigned but over all I'm glad I finished and no longer have issues with my Disc drives not connection properly or not showing up at all.
 
I just went through the process with Asus with a P8P67 MB.

I was impressed with their turnaround. I didn't get around to online filing directly with Asus until last Thursday........ the MB was shipped to me by second day air and arrived Monday. I was quite honestly expecting a bit of a wait as the boards became available.

It was a painful experience swapping out the MB; it's pretty much equivalent to a system build all over again except that you need to dissemble the old one and clean the thermal paste as well. Took around three hours in total; but everything worked perfectly on first power up etc, so it went smoothly.

Asus made the return easy (and free) by providing the pre-paid FedEx label and since it was cross shipped I just had to repack it in their box and drop it off at a FedEx location.

As much as it would have been better to never have this recall in the first place, Intel and Asus have done what they could to make this as easy as possible. If only they could somehow give my 3-4 hours of time back as well!

I actually have a lot of respect for Intel in the way they handled this. I remember many vendors back in 2001-2003 time frame who sourced bad capacitors from China and it seemed that the strategy they used was to wait out the customers warranty period. This really annoyed me (I took note of which vendors did what) and it is good to see that Intel did not choose this path and was proactive about the problem.

Go ahead and get your board replaced............
 
This is basically a repost of this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2151401

I almost didnt since I have controller cards, but then I thought about the future and selling the board.
Intel/Newegg made it so easy to get a replacement for no cost (sent me a shipping label) or downtime (due to advanced replacement) that it seemed like a no-brainer.
Took me 45 minutes to get everything out and the new board and everything back in and now I don't have to worry about it anymore.
 
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