Your board works fine. You're not out anything while you wait for this to happen, you don't need a PCI SATA connector...because you're not having the problem that the recall was instigated by. Like Dan posted, it's a problem that 5-15% of people -may- have down the road, but right now you're not...
I got the email earlier today.
There's a reason I don't buy my components anywhere else, even when it saves me a dollar or two.
That said, I'm not even really worried about the issue anyway.
I can confirm that it hasn't been an issue for me personally since I flashed 1253 (on a Pro board), where it was guaranteed to happen on a cold boot prior to the flash.
I replaced an EX58-UD3R with my P8P67 Pro and Windows wouldn't boot.
Not that it mattered much, even if it does boot I'd still strongly recommend reloading Windows.
I went from an i7-920 to an i5-2500k, and passed the other system to my wife so she had something decent to use. I haven't bothered overclocking just because everything is running perfectly as it is... there's a noticeable improvement in everything I've done with the system, and after work...
P8P67 Pro, working fine with some caveats.
Although I have some power management issues where I'm not entirely sure if they're board related or video card related (seems probable it's the latter), it's been a pretty good build and performance is excellent.
I had issues with the stutter startup...
I actually bought exactly what you did with my new build.
It works fine, but like Juan_Jose mentioned you'll need to set it up manually in the BIOS. It autodetects at POST at 1.5 and defaults it to a lower frequency if you don't set the speed of the RAM manually to run at the higher supported...
Sometimes...
I just built a system that's pretty close to the same specs of what you're running and was having the same issue, so it's at least helpful to see that someone else is suffering the same way...that means it's probably not something I borked during the setup somewhere :D
I'm...
I think you might be seeing something other than a problem with the motherboard, officer921, although there may be something with the power management on the board that's contributing to it.
Are you running the newest drivers/beta CCC from ATI?
I can run the system without a lockup if I don't...