Question about the S3 Sleep bug

chen123

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Aug 19, 2012
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Hi guys,

So it's not long till I'm going to be building my new pc. Yesterday when I went to another place to ask about prices, one of the sales mentioned about the Haswell S3 sleep bug where the once the pc sleeps, the usb ports don't function properly and you would have to restart the computer to bring it back.
I also saw the intel post (PCN) about product change notification. So how does that work? If you buy a new haswell cpu, do you send it back to intel for them to give you a c2 stepping? Or what?

Thanks!