P965 Platinium - can't boot vista or XP when installed RAID 5

Hi,
I Hope someone can help me.
I have a dual-boot vista and win XP (SP2) SATA hd installed on AHCI Port0 - working fine.
Now I have bought 3 250GB SATA disks and want to use them in a RAID 5 disk array.
I do not want to install any operating system on the raid array.
Bios (ver 1.5) settings is:
Integrated Peripherals:
Onboard RAID controller set to [IDE]
-> On-Chip ATA Devices:
Configure SATA#1 as [RAID]
-> ACHI Device Group:
ACHI Port0 [Hard Disk] - this is my system disk
ACHI Port1 [Not Detected]
ACHI Port2 [Not Detected]
ACHI Port3 [Hard Disk] - this is a disk used for the raid 5 array
ACHI Port4 [Hard Disk] - this is a disk used for the raid 5 array
ACHI Port5 [Hard Disk] - this is a disk used for the raid 5 array
I have set up the raid array during boot (ctrl+I) and I think this looks allright.
When I try and boot vista or XP (dosen't matter) I get BSOD - Please Help me
If I just set up the 3 disks to IDE I have no problem booting and Vista see the 3 disk as individual disks.

The REG file for RAID mode (XP) should actually look like this:
Quote
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_2822&cc_0104]
"Service"="iaStor"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStor]
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000000
"Group"="SCSI miniport"
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"="system32\\drivers\\iaStor.sys"
"tag"=dword:00000019
"DisplayName"="Intel RAID Controller"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStor\Parameters]
"queuePriorityEnable"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStor\Parameters\oromVersion]
"MajorVersion"=dword:00000006
"MinorVersion"=dword:00000000
"HotfixNumber"=dword:00000000
"BuildNumber"=dword:000003fe
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStor\Enum]
"0"="PCI\\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&SUBSYS_B0001458&REV_02\\3&13c0b0c5&0&FA"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001
Quote
should I just change all the reg changes form iaStor.sys to iaStorV.sys or what do yuo think?
I have no idea, really. Never done that.

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jravin wrote:
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That Tell's me 100% you do have the same card the
_*(PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, display, Slot-1)*_
that needs OS X 10.5.2 or newer to boot from the install DVD. I went though this man, by myself is was not fun call 800-69-2773 (800-MY-Apple) ask for costumer care tell them it is the Old OS & newer GPU not the Mac Pro, So they can't try to say you need Apple Care for what in truth they never told people. I know you will get a replacement Mac OS X Leopard Install DVD 10.5.2 or newer it is white & has Replacement DVD Not For Resale on it.
I am give you my Email if needed at all in this (I know what a mess it is)
hess2 at mac dot com
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*PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, display, Slot-1*
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Brother, Sound74, I thought I was the only one pulling the hair out of my chest one by one the past two days. Your situation is very similar to mine, and I'm just as clueless as you are. I started getting kernel panic screens, then nothing on boot, until finally I brought it to the local genius bar. They ran all the usual software/hardware tests, updated Tiger to 10.4.11, recommended I buy Leopard and do an erase-install. My computer, of course, was working absolutely fine by this point. I bought Leopard, came home, backed everything up, then tried to install the new OS. Like in your case, it just up and quit half-way through. Screen went black and a "No DVI Signal" message came on my display (it does this when I turn it on without first turning on the computer).
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What you need instead is to auto-clone your boot drive occasionally and make daily auto-backups of certain folders.
This way not only do you have a hardware protection, but software protection as well. You can go back to a previous OS version if you need too, you can boot from the clone if you need to, even reverse clone.
So you have more flexability, mirroring is good for one time data captures that a hardware failure is not a option.
A great piece of software clone/backup is Deja Vu
Read how to do this and more text file here

Can't boot computer with 10.5 install CD or Single User Mode, or Safe Mode.

Ive written a couple times about this and responded to people who have similiar queeries but i just havent gotten any answers.
I cannot log onto my computer, I boot up and get a blue screen, with a nice black arrow. Thats as far as i can get. Obviously happening to lots of people..So, ive tried rebooting holding the C key and with 10.5 install CD, ive tried Unix (command-S), Ive tried resetting PR Ram, ive tried mantra recitation and cooing to my laptop; ive tried all the shortcuts in Oreilly's book and the only thing that DOES work is holding the OPTION key while rebooting. This brings up a nice icon of a padlock and a place to type letters or words and then there is another arrow in a box. Is this Open Firmware? I dont have an open firmware password...Ive tried entering my user password but it doenst accept it. ( I did change my password last week, did that create these problems???) how do i by pass that password????? Is it open firmware? (the date reads 1904 when i do the command option-O F command, and i cant get beyond that either...HELP!!

Hello,
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Utilities from the Installer menu at the top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access the Menubar at top.
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Reset Password from the Installer menu at the top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Reset Password.
Space between mount & -uw, space between -uw & the /
rm /var/db/.applesetupdone
Space after rm, before the 1st /

Can't boot from Recovery or USB Install Drive

Hi Folks,
My (mid-2011) MacBook Pro [Mavericks (10.9)] is not booting up – not matter what I try.
I've tried booting into Recovery (using command-R), Internet Recovery, and tonight I finally created a bootable USB install drive – no luck there either (pressing option to get to the startup disk manager). I can select which drive I want to boot from, but after selecting the USB drive and clicking on the arrow, I get to the gray apple screen (with the spinning progress wheel), and then it just stalls on a blank light gray screen (and the fans spin up). I've waited up to 45 minutes in this state, still nothing.
The same thing happens when I try to boot normally. I have Filevault 2 enabled, so I get to the user account screen – but after selecting my account, the machine goes from the gray apple startup screen to the blank gray screen and hangs.
I've tried resetting the NVRAM, booting from an install CD, etc., etc., and nada.
Does anyone have any advice where to go from here? I had hoped the USB install drive would be the answer, but for whatever reason, I'm simply having no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated – this is my main rig and I can't afford to have it down for much longer…
Thanks so much!

What install "CD"?? (sure it's not a DVD disc) did you try.
Not sure it is related to the Filevault system but if you can't get the Recovery HD partition to boot that may be caused by having Filevault enabled.
Have you tried the Real Online Internet Recovery system? Hold down the Command + Option/Alt + r keys at startup and keep holding them down until you see a globe on the screen. If after you see the globe, or you never get a globe on the screen, and you get that same Grey color on the screen then you more than likely have a hardware problem. You should make an Appointment with your local Apple store Genius Bar for your Mac to be properly diagnosed.

Can't boot back into OSX after installing windows 8.1

I have a late 2013 MacBook pro 15 inch with retina display.
After I got windows 8.1 up and running with a disk copy I tried to go back to the mac os side, but after I held down option/alt after restarting and clicked on the osx partition but all that happened was a white "no sign" showed on the screen and my computer began to boot back into windows.
I don't know if all my mac stuff is gone, so should I try and use osx recovery?

Try this first. Do a backup. Boot to the Recovery Volume (command - R on a restart or hold down the option/alt key during a restart and select Recovery Volume). Run Disk Utility Verify/Repair and Repair Permissions until you get no errors. Then re-install the OS.
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Cannot boot from XP CD when installing Boot Camp

I've tried several times to install XP with SP2 on my Mac Pro. I was successful installing Boot Camp with OS X 10.4. I did a clean install of OX 10.5.
My Mac will not boot from the XP CD once I'm told to re-boot while installing Boot Camp. I've tried holding the "C" key to force it to boot. It still will not boot. I can only get back into Max OS X by holding the "Option" key during boot up.
I have verified my XP disk and all looks good.
Has anyone else seen this and is there are work around?
Thanks!
Rick

Hi
It seems the drive cannot boot up from the CD recovery and switch to the LAN boot.
The PXE-E61 error message appears because the LAN cable was not connected and the notebook is not able to find a network boot source
I think you should check the recovery CD and maybe you will need a new one

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