Correct ACHI Drivers for P67A-GD65? Motherboard Over-Volts on Auto

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I purchased the P67A-GD65 MB and a 2600K last Sunday. Win 7 x64 saw my HD set to ACHI in the bios so I didn't load any drivers. Much to my chagrin, after all drivers were installed, device manager shows my 2 Sata 3GB HDs running as ATA.  :nooo: They are plugged into the Sata  Intel 3-4 slots which are supposed to be Intel PCH. I tried reinstalling Win7 x64 and loading the drivers from the x64 floppy folder/PCH. No compatible drivers were found. Acronis could not find drivers when doing a universal restore/add drivers either. Just where are the correct Intel ACHI drivers for the P67 lurking?

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PCH Been there. No compatible drivers according to Win 7 x64 and Acronis
Tigerpoint

Why oh why is all that stuff on a CD for a P67? Trying auto update on the website didn't do any better. The driver was for the ICH series according to the readme.  :nooo:

Shouldn't there have been a P67 PCH folder?

With everything in Auto, My mobo overvolts. CPU v-core starts at 1.208 idle and jumps to 1.240 under load. In auto my G.Skill DDR3 1600 should be at 1.5 in auto yet it is @ 1.65. There is no v-droop. Do I have a defective mobo or will a bios past 1.6 correct over-volting?  :biggthumbsdown: PSU is a PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750. Approx. 2 years old.

My second 2600K build with and Asus P8P67 Deluxe exhibited no problems. ACHI drivers are correctly identified. Voltage regulators provide proper voltage.  :biggthumbsup:
 
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What is your current BIOS Version? 

Is your system overclocked?

Are you sure that the VCore Changes are not the result of the CPU's power saving features (EIST, C1E, C-States) which would cause exactly what you are describing (VCore transitions between IDLE/LOAD)?

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As for the AHCI & Driver problem:  Are you sure that it is the Intel Controller that is set to AHCI Mode and not one of the other two (JMicron, Marvell)?  Are there perhaps other more than one options to switch between IDE/AHCI/RAID Mode?

Also, please try the latest Intel RST Drivers (which will of course only work as long as it is really the Intel Controller that is set to work in AHCI Mode): http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?lang=eng&changeLang=true&DwnldId=19607

In auto my G.Skill DDR3 1600 should be at 1.5 in auto yet it is @ 1.65.
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Check with CPU-Z (SPD Tab) if your modules feature an XMP Profile and also check if XMP is enabled in BIOS/EFI Setup or not.
 
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Thanks for the driver link. That worked.  :)

Yes, I'm OCed. 4.5GHz 1.275 v-core equals 1.312 in Windows. All power savings are disabled. C1E, Overload Protection and C-State.

My ram is rated @1.5 v-dimm even in XMS. That's profile is disabled and speed is manually set to 1600. I found a manual setting very close to the 1.5 so I'm not worried about it.

I am a little concerned about lack of v-droop since that is supposed to protect the processor from voltage spikes when unloading. I'm using the release of bios 1.6
TIA
 
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I am a little concerned about lack of v-droop since that is supposed to protect the processor from voltage spikes when unloading. I'm using the release of bios 1.6
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Give v1.7 a try and if that does not change anything.
 
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... and if that does not help either, there are still newer BETAs to have a look at (the latest being v1.8b6). Read a complaint of too much vdroop with v1.8b6 when compared to v1.7.  That means something with done in that direction.
 
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Thanks for the link!  :) It's still over-volting with v1.7. Are the beta bios' available to the public? It sounds like they will have a release of v1.8 so I may just wait. It's stable and crunching WCG happily. :)
 
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