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Anyone else seeing sata 3gb failure on 2nd rev cougar point chipsets?

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Motherboard Master

And they said this would take years to happen! Probably a white lie since they hurried up on recalling the boards.
(wonder if they had bothered if it actually would have taken years)
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Sending boards back to supplier for RMA some are even missing chipset heatsinks i noticed as soon as i opened mb box.
Im up to 5 with failures now if i move sata devices to 6gb ports works fine, all machines end up with BSOD in windows and drives no longer show up in bios.
Motherboard Master

Wow that would really be bad if the Chipset is the root cause!

There are other possibilities including HDD and if AHCI is used. The problem is clones are prone to having 'group' problems or successes.

Q - Is AHCI used?
Q - What HDD(s)?

No doubt there should be no missing heatsinks. I assume when the rigs were built that someone 'looked' at the MOBO's to notice an obvious missing heatsink(s) before building the rigs??!!

Ahci is not used also the hard drives are seagates 500 ,and 1tb
The boards without the heat sink i noticed as soon as i pulled it out of that anti-static bag.
Also the lg dvd burners were also not showing up in the bios as well so it was the 3gb controller.
As soon as i moved both hdd and dvd burner to 6gb port no more problems.
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