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December 27th, 2022 18:00

Aurora R3, Intel P67 chipset Cougar point recall

Was Aurora R3 P67 chipset ever recalled by Dell?

The Cougar Point Intel 6 series chipsets with stepping B2 were recalled due to a hardware bug that causes their 3 Gbit/s Serial ATA to degrade over time until they become unusable.

P67 SLH84(B2) (Recalled)
SLJ4C (B3)

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December 28th, 2022 10:00

If you had an Aurora-R3, you could run the command on it, to see if there is even a reason to recall it.

Here are my notes from a Vostro-460/XPS-8300:

Intel H67-Express Cougar-Point Chipset
- SATA-3/600 for lower SATA Ports 0,1 - Others are only SATA-2/300
- I see no mention of UEFI and it's in AHCI-Mode
- Even without UEFI-BIOS, Dell ePSA is in ROM
- Current (and final) BIOS is now A06 (was A03)
- "wmic idecontroller get deviceid" reveals

- - REV_05 which is B3 Stepping = The Fixed SATA-2/300 Ports 2-5
- - Bad ones were B2. It only affected the SATA-2 ports. The lower channel (new tech) SATA-3 ports 0-1 were not affected.

Interesting how Sandy Bridge systems with Cougar-Point (H67/P67) chipset didn't make the Dell cut for Windows-10 Upgrade. I've read the reports about the rough-upgrade for Aurora-R3, and it looks like the XPS-8300/Vostro-460 are in the same boat.

Intel i5-2400 @3.1ghz (4c/4t) SandyBridge
- CPUBoss says it benchmarks 2x an Intel-Q6600 or 4x E6600
- Onboard Intel HD2000 Graphics with VGA and HDMI (previous owner used IGP for 7 years)

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December 29th, 2022 11:00

per Dell Chris M

The Aurora-R3 has six SATA ports -

White SATA 1/2 = SATA Revision 3.0 (SATA 6 Gbits/s)

Black SATA 3/4 = SATA Revision 2.0 (SATA 3 Gbits/s)

Black SATA 5/6 = SATA Revision 2.0 (SATA 3 Gbits/s)

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December 30th, 2022 03:00

No, there was never a recall done on the Aurora R3.

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December 30th, 2022 05:00

In 2022 does Dell still honor recall of XPS 8300 H67 chipset received by customer?

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December 31st, 2022 05:00

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