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Hi PJALM, The tutorial quoted ascribes possible boot delay root cause to issues with WAT, documented in licensed copies. That root cause was eliminated early in this investigation. The delay is engendered by conflicts in the pre-OS boot phase. Users could encounter this issue regardless of...

I found a BIOS/Firmware update, at: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/R640L/firmware/9230_CpuAHCI_1053.rar Running the go.bat in a DOS environment on a Wintel PC with the cards installed therein, using -w -y erase flag first then and -y to update to ver. 1.0.01018 on both my cards, by...

Trials with various W7 installs and card combinations pointed to my problem being one entirely due to having two Marvell 88SE-9230-based controller cards installed at the same time. When only one card was installed, start up took place in a relatively prompt (~30 sec) fashion. I imagine a...

Troubleshooting the BCD proved futile, so I reinstalled Win7 and applied SLIC 2.1 and Open 7 Activator as per this tutorial: http://viperfx07.blogspot.com/2010/01/tutorial-fixing-slow-booting-in-windows.html That didn't change the startup delay. I then moved the Syba card to a PC and performed...

New approach: Syba Support has responded to my request for an installer that will allow me to re-flash my card with its current firmware with the reply, "Sorry, once you flash the BIOS, nothing we can do. There is no recovery program we can send you." This naturally makes me leery of leaping...

arminreiss, I can't answer your question about a special kext for your disappearing software RAID array issue with your SI-PEX40064 controller card, but I can report the same really slow start up with an SI-PEX40057 in a Mac Pro 4.1 Dual Xeon 2.26GHz. My delay occurs when booting into Win 7...