Tweeking a ExpressCred to boot?

I'm trying to install Tiger and Boot Camp on my external eSATA RAID-disks as I want a faster and more reliable harddrive to work on.
External Firewire-drives works for installing and running OS X, but it seems that they can't make Boot Camp partitions.
I have seen instructions for OS X and XP on USB-sticks, but I find nothing for the ExpressCard, which I believe is the fastest port on the MBP(!?).
I got myself a 2-port eSATA expresscard, and a eSATA box with hardware RAID on two 320GB SATA II disks.
Silicon Image released new version of the driver just a few days ago (06-12-26) but that didn't change much except stopping the card from giving "roller blind"-death to OS X while reinserting a card.
I have some hope at least to get XP booting from these disks as they actually shows up before the XP boot.
The card and the disks flashes by a second or so just when boot kicks in after I chosen XP in the alt-start OS-choice.
I see this:
SiL 3132 SATALink BIOS Version 7.2.23
Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Silicon Image, Inc.
0 WDC WD3200YS-01PDB0 298GB
1 WCD WD3200YS-01PCB0 298GB
Then the screen gets "256-colored" stripes and booting continue as without the drive.
In OS X the drives shows as:
SCSI Parallel Domain 1
SCSI Target Device @ 0:
SCSI Logical Unit @ 0:
SCSI Target Device @ 15:
SCSI Logical Unit @ 0:
In XP they show as SCSI too.
Any ideas on how to get this ExpressCard to cooperate?
Will it work with Leopard? Vista?
Macbook Pro 2Ghz CoreDuo, 2GB RAM, 128MB VRAM, 80GB Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Ok, I think I have found the problem.
When booting up the MBP the eSATA-expresscard does not wake up until the apple-logo shows at the grey screen.
That is after the option-menu, and thereby I can't choose it to start from.
Is there a way to help OS X (or the MBP itself) to start up this device earlier?
I'm thankful for any ideas about this.

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Hi Guys,
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Have you reset the PRAM? It should usually be done when replacing any hardware. Have you got the latest EFI firmware for your Mac?
Not knowing what model /YEAR your MBP is (not that it would help me too much but the other fellas probably would) it's hard to guess as there are issue's for different models. The only thing I could find was it's usually caused by a non-conforming video driver. Microsoft had a page on it I found by accident and now I can't find it!
WinClone hasn't been updated by the original author in over a year, others have tweeked it a little to work with W7 but seems to be semi reliable, so the be aware.
Unless the other MBP's are identical in Model AND year your putting older or incompatible drivers on your MBP. Boot Camp, (especially if your using the drivers on the original install disks, like 10.6 and earlier) will only install for that specific computer. Just like the OS installer.
EDIT:
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[ HP laptop 8510w with P/N KE186ET#ABE running on Win XP Pro SP3 and only that - no dual boot or otherwise tweeked boot block on that machine]
Hi all !
- my 1st post here.
Laptop started heating up seriously about 30 months ago. Symptoms were:
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- heat being extracted from that small box was such that I could not keep my hand before the fan outlet or on top of it, touchiing the box more than 5 s. That meant temp was well above 75ºC. Imagine hacking away on your keyboard and suddenly crying out loud because you got yr hand burnt.
4 nights ago (literally during the night), my laptop called it quit.
It has not booted since. Nothing happens when I turn it on, except for the ironical fact that the fan seems to work wonderfully and the power supply LED is on. I also hear it try to access both the internal HD and the CD/DVD drive at about 4 s intervals.
Naturally my warranty has long expired.
I have tried:
- hooking it up to an external screen and powering it up to see if something appeared there. Nothing.
- booting from a CD ROM. Nothing.
- reseating memory modules, internal SATA HD, keyboard, tracking pad, even the RTC CMOS 3V battery and WLAN module, taking everything that I could take off and reseating it after checking for any visual defect. More nothing.
BTW, I have been working steadily with one and only one OS on that machine, Win XP Professional SP3.
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I had reformatted and completely reinstalled my OS about 2 months ago, after I had noticed certain unpredictability such as hangs and so on. That seemed to fix the hangs but absolutely not the overheating.
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Well it is not really a zombie case. You got 2 and a half years out of an overheated laptop. I would say the old girl gave it her best shot. Probably what it needed a couple years ago was to be opened up and have the processor area/heatsink/fan cleaned out and new thermal compound. At this point I think you are looking at a motherboard replacement. It is a bit old but it was very advanced when new so is still a desireable computer. This is the Service Manual:
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Here is one on eBay, shipped from China, but reasonably priced at $80:
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this is my first seriouse MSI board in last 3years and i have encountered few problems with overclock
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i think i got the lazy chip help me understand it better and learn things on the way.
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Ring: x39
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i also tryed just x46 with voltage bump up to 1.28v with offset 0.015
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Also is there some special USB so i can take the screenshots?
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When i put my WD 2TB HDD it recognize it but when i want to save the Screenshot it gives this message
"allocate file system resource fail"
I would post Screanshots but as i mentioned above its annoying problem..
Thanks in advance guys.
Edit:
just to see if i have lazy chip i tryed 1.3v with settings above and x47-48 wont even post.... :(
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Ubuntu Live CD's are designed for generic PC machines, not Mac's with a GUID Partition Table and EFI.
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A. run chkdsk
B. What happens if you boot from XP CD and Repair System
C. system file checker - from command "sfc /scannow"
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18530125 1
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I have a brand new imac 5k, with 4ghz i7, 295x GPU, 3.1TB fusion drive. Bought the machine so I could dual boot - I need windows for VR Dev work.
I've spent the last week and a half on tech support calls with Apple Senior Tech agents, and Microsoft agents as well, and today have been told that indeed this machine cannot run windows 8.1. Apparently Apple engineering knows about the issue, but says the problem is microsoft's. Ugh.
The latest iteration of the issue comes when installing 8.1 onto an external thunderbolt SSD (without even using boot camp) - I go through the EFI installer, convert the drive to GPT, format it as ntfs, but when I select the partition to install onto, the installer says it can't find the partition it just created. Smuh?
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Michael Conelly wrote:
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Several take home messages here:
always back up before you update.
always back up anything you don't want to lose. Kind of like flossing. Only floss the teeth you don't want to lose.
Norton is very, very bad software, and you should get rid of it.
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Just to let you know an easy way to shutdown is go to the desktop and press ALT + FN + F4 and a shutdown menu comes up on the desktop.
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This is of course AFTER you have ACTIVATED WINDOWS 7 ONLINE with YOUR ACTIVATION KEY(you supply).
ENJOY! This is the BEST machine I ever had!

It's been many, many years since I don't do dual boot anymore. Don't find the reason to do it, either. Different kinds of virtualization should be enough. Anyway...
dfw1417 wrote:
It took over 2 days to figure out how to adjust the bios to get my win 7 pro DVD to boot and install dual boot on this GREAT MACHINE!!
ENJOY! This is the BEST machine I ever had!
WHICH machine?
Cheers.
If I helped you, please give me some kudos! ^^

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Here are some suggestions based on my recent issue with unable to get Mavericks up after upgrade - The Apple geniuses just simply couldnt figure this one out...despite it being in their shop for 3 days (They probably did not look at it...and asked if they can just wipe out everything and install fresh...i had said NO):
Restart computer and hold Cmd+V when you hear chime. This will start the computer in Verbose mode.
See the messages and see where the system boot fails. In my case, it was some backtrace IOStorageFamily issue with com.paragon-software.
Google may be able to solve your Apple issues - just type the error message in and see if you get any useful suggestions. in most cases - this would be some faulty 3rd party drivers.....
In my case, it was something stupid i had probably installed....I had to boot to safe mode (Hold Shift at boot chime) - open Terminal, delete the folder com.paragon-software.kext from System/Library/Extensions....that fixed the problem. Mavericks is working great now....
Let me know if your debugging thing works...

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