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Spacedust

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My new Mac Pro 2009 is booting very slowly. When I press power button there is chime, but screen remains blank for about 30 seconds. Then there is grey screen and system is loading normally. Everything else is working fine.

I thought it was Areca RAID controller slowing the boot process, but removing it didn't help at all.

I use genuine Apple Radeon HD5770 card.

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Reseting NVRAM fixed this problem, but now I got chime the grey screen comes up and stays for about 30 seconds which is very long.

I think it's Areca now. It's waiting for F/W to become ready (I'm using non-EFI BIOS since I use this card to boot Windows 7 on BootCamp).

Is there anything I can do now ?
 
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