From COLD boot only [when PC has been off] I get a freeze as soon as the spinning cursor begins to rotate. The cursor is frozen at an angle. This does not happen the second or subsequent reboots [pushing REST button]. The cold boot freeze always happens. A successful boot always happens after a reboot.
About 30 seconds after the freeze the PC reports "EBIOS READ ERROR: DEVICE TIMEOUT BLOCK0x0 SECTOR 0" This read error string repeats every ~30 seconds.
When the boot DOES complete [resets] it reports:
Darwin/x86 boot v 5.0.132
Chameleon V 2.0 RC5 r699
Build date 2011-01-09
When the boot is successful, all the HDDs are properly displayed on the Chameleon boot screen..
My installation of OSX 10.6.6 was built with iBoot & Multibeast 3.4. It is fully functional & stable.
The PC hardware configuration includes a 1TB SATA drive with OSX, A 300 GB SATA drive with Win 7. Each was built with the other HDD disconnected. The WIN 7 build was built using the Win install disc only. The Win 7 HDD is MBR. The OSX HDD is GUID. There are 3 additional HDDs connected to the PC via USB 2.0.
Because this failure occurs so early, I don't know where I can look to see what is happening. Is there a log file that has info and is readable after a reboot? I don't have any Linux builds but could use Ubuntu 10 live for test purposes.
I am not a programmer. I have a few months OSX86 experience ONLY.
ANY HELP?
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GA-P55a-UB3 F 11, i5 650,8GB OCZ 1333 RAM, 700 watt PSU, USB keyboard & mouse. The freeze happens with only 4GB RAM installed too.