I did a HIR restore from a SuperMicro X7DCA-3 to Asus DSEB/DG-SAS mb. The C drive is a RAID 0 (4 x Seagate SAS 146GB 15k) containing 3 partitions, SAS controller is LSI (onboard both mb's) The SAS controller has 8 ports, I use 4 on the "c" (described above), I also have another 2 SAS hdd + 1 SATA 750gb After the restore, I reboot into Vista without problems. Vista then installs all the required drivers & says to "restart" During the restart, I get the BSOD STOP message Any ideas?

You normally get this error when the OS you are trying to boot up doesn't have the correct AHCI driver enabled. Since you have the same LSI chipset on both machines (and managed to boot fine into the OS after the HIR restore), it seems strange that you have a problem after the reboot.

One thing to keep in mind is that Vista is very keen on disabling storage drivers it doesn't think it needs (in order to speed up boot time). I'm not sure why this might happen, but I guess there's a chance it disabled the msahci.sys or related RAID driver. You might want to run HIR again, and include the RAID driver(s).

I did try to run HIR again & include the RAID drivers. I get an error message (while I'm still in the recovery environment) saying the drivers I'm trying to load do not match/incorrect