Boot Camp x64 doesn't like my Mac?

I have a Mac Pro which is maybe 18 months old or so. Xeon CPU, dual core, 4GB of ram. Great computer. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on it and it runs fine. But when I stick the Snow Leopard install disc in while booted up into Windows to install drivers for the Apple hardware, it tells me that I can't do it on my specific model. What about my model would prevent Boot Camp drivers from working?

I would really like to be able to eject the disc drives, but that is very tough since Apple does not allow physical eject buttons on their computers. Instead I have to go in, right-click on the drive and select EJECT.

Boot Camp update

You probably need to update your EFI Firmware to fix issues on Mac Pro:
Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.2

For x64 bit support, see these articles:
Boot Camp: Mac computers that work with 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows Vista
Boot Camp 3.0, Mac OS X 10.6: Frequently asked questions

I have not updated my firmware because many users said that doing so caused the fans to be really loud and have erratic behavior. My fans are perfectly quiet and I don't want to mess with that.

However I found this link which says my computer is not compatible, but does not offer an explanation why. Windows 7 runs fine, so I don't understand why the Boot Camp drivers can't unless Apple's programmers just haven't been able to figure out Windows 7 yet, and it doesn't sound like they'll bother.

However I found this link which says my computer is not compatible, but does not offer an explanation why. Windows 7 runs fine, so I don't understand why the Boot Camp drivers can't unless Apple's programmers just haven't been able to figure out Windows 7 yet, and it doesn't sound like they'll bother.

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That statement is a bit premature don't you think? Since Apple will not be officially supporting Windows 7 until December, for now the drivers which are on the latest disk update (Snow Leopard, Boot Camp 3.0) only support XP and Vista X32, Vista X64.

However, many of us (myself included) are running Win 7 without problems using the Boot Camp 3.0 drivers.

Regards.

I don't think it is premature at all, especially when Apple themselves have said that they absolutely will not support my model.

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