Sandy Bridge

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Slackrat <torfree-GANU6spQydw at public.gmane.org>

| http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sandy-bridge-chipset-flaw-refund,12119.html

If I remember correctly, this was an early problem with a particular
chipset's SATA port.  The CPUs were fine, but motherboards were essentially
scrapped (or possibly remanufactured).  Only a very few systems had
been shipped with the faulty chip.

Notice the date of the article: before all this was clear.

See. for example,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge_%28microarchitecture%29#Cougar_Point_chipset_flaw>

Do you think you have one of the rare systems with this bug?  Is your
drive SATA-II?  When did you buy your notebook?
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