sadly enough there has been an issue with the new chipsets.....but the CPU's are still fine

the main points are as follows

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- If you've bought a Sandy Bridge system, you may be entitled to a free replacement.

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- If you're thinking about a Sandy Bridge system, you will have to wait until at least April.

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- Desktops, notebooks, servers are all affected.

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Manufacturers told us that revised motherboards and notebooks based are unlikely to appear until at least April of this year, and Intel probably won't be supplying new chipset revisions until early to mid-March. However, replacements are unclear as manufacturers are informing us that details need to be worked out with Intel on how customers will be handled.

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Intel claims that only 5-percent of Sandy Bridge owners will experience the flaw. But speaking with manufacturers, we were told that numbers appear to be far greater than that. Some companies told us that this is definitely a "panic-mode" situation for them.

http://www.guru3d.com/news/sandy-bridge-chipset-design-flaw-recalls
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sandy-bridge-sata-error-sata-3,12112.html

the SATA system is where the fault lies

Bucket sadly enough this means you too.....dont quiet know how to go about it though...best to talk with the shop you bought your mobo from and take it from there....hopefully you can keep the mobo until the new fixed sandy bridge mobo's are available....the only thing to do would be to use the the SATA 3 ports as they should be backwards compatible with SATA 2 devices