Sandy Bridge Pulled!?!?!

Hey Guys,
One of my friends brought to my attention that the sandy bridge line of processors got pulled, I just bought a MSI-GT680R laptop last week with a 2630QM in, how will this affect me? or we're they pulled and fixed awhile ago? What exactly was the issue, I think I read somewhere something to do with 3 or more sata connections?

 

This was months ago. It was a defect with the cougar point motherboard causing Sata ports 1 onwards to degenerate the health of the drive attached. It was fixed long time ago, by march I believe

 

The issue cropped up in January and was over by the end of March. If you bought a laptop last week, there's no way it could possibly affect you.

Furthermore, while a number of desktop motherboards affected by the issue managed to make it into the hands of end users, I don't believe any prebuilt systems, desktop or laptop, actually managed to hit store shelves before the issue was caught.

 

A couple of the earliest SB laptops that were preordered before their original release did make it into the hands of users, I think, but there aren't any affected systems still floating around in stores/retailers' websites. You don't have any need to worry if you bought your laptop recently.

 

There were plenty of B2 stepping boards/laptops that were pre-shipped. We had Sandy Bridge notebooks at least 1 month before actual launch. We ended up RTV-ing all of them back to manufacturers.

Most recommend you RMA their stuff or return to the location where you bought it from. At work we still get the occasional B2 stepping SB motherboard.

 

it was only predicted to hit 5% of users anyways...in 3 years.

anyone who got one of those mobos should start heavily investing in the lottery if they got a dud.

 

lol
Welcome to January 31st 2011.

 

3 months behind the public.


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My SB laptop is going in for repair sometime this month (replacing mobo). Good news is that my warranty restarts the day the fix it so got a good four months use out of it for free, kinda.