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<blockquote data-quote="Nokism" data-source="post: 1045706" data-attributes="member: 152931"><p>Thank you Chscag for moving this post to the appropriate folder.</p><p></p><p>Also thank you for your suggestions and response. I managed to fix the problem at about 6am this morning after having stayed up all night trying to fix the problem, I'm still not sure exactly why i had the problem but it was definately a video driver problem. </p><p></p><p>The way i fixed it was to format again for the umpteenth time, once it was all done i inserted the snow leopard disk and installed 3.0 of boot camp, for whatever reason it fully installed, where in previous attempts, it would lockup during the screen flashing caused by the video driver being installed, so at first i was happy that it had all worked o.k, then upon reboot i had the same problem with the screen being black and being able to hear windows chimes in the background, ready to pull my hair out i rebooted again this time in safe mode, and uninstalled the video driver that the snow leopard disk had installed, and rebooted the computer again and it booted into windows xp again this time i was able to see the desktop, so i went to hardware manager and selected the video card and chose update drivers, i then allowed it to connect to the internet to find drivers, and removed the snow leopard disk from the drive and click o.k, a couple or minutes later the screen flashed again then it stabilized, i then updated windows and installed my game and now everything is working fine. I did NOT update bootcamp to 3.1 because from what i have read it is mainly for mac books and windows 7</p><p></p><p>The funny thing is i am sure i had done the exact same thing a couple of times before but this time it seems to have stuck, which is great.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks again for taking the time to try to help me.</p><p></p><p></p><p>P.S During all this i had rang apple care and they also told me to run the Apple Hardware Test, he told me to loop it and let it run while i was sleeping so i did so and i woke to it being frozen. So they are sending someone out to look at it.</p><p></p><p>Also when originally trying to partition the drive for windows in boot camp assistant, it would not do it, so i run the disk utility and it found and fixed errors, and since then i have noticed a folder in my root directory called lost+found, is this important? or can i just delete it and assume it was file it didn't know what to do with while disk utility was fixing the errors. inside the lost+found folder it created are empty folder titled with seemingly random numbers like 223348585</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nokism, post: 1045706, member: 152931"] Thank you Chscag for moving this post to the appropriate folder. Also thank you for your suggestions and response. I managed to fix the problem at about 6am this morning after having stayed up all night trying to fix the problem, I'm still not sure exactly why i had the problem but it was definately a video driver problem. The way i fixed it was to format again for the umpteenth time, once it was all done i inserted the snow leopard disk and installed 3.0 of boot camp, for whatever reason it fully installed, where in previous attempts, it would lockup during the screen flashing caused by the video driver being installed, so at first i was happy that it had all worked o.k, then upon reboot i had the same problem with the screen being black and being able to hear windows chimes in the background, ready to pull my hair out i rebooted again this time in safe mode, and uninstalled the video driver that the snow leopard disk had installed, and rebooted the computer again and it booted into windows xp again this time i was able to see the desktop, so i went to hardware manager and selected the video card and chose update drivers, i then allowed it to connect to the internet to find drivers, and removed the snow leopard disk from the drive and click o.k, a couple or minutes later the screen flashed again then it stabilized, i then updated windows and installed my game and now everything is working fine. I did NOT update bootcamp to 3.1 because from what i have read it is mainly for mac books and windows 7 The funny thing is i am sure i had done the exact same thing a couple of times before but this time it seems to have stuck, which is great. Thanks again for taking the time to try to help me. P.S During all this i had rang apple care and they also told me to run the Apple Hardware Test, he told me to loop it and let it run while i was sleeping so i did so and i woke to it being frozen. So they are sending someone out to look at it. Also when originally trying to partition the drive for windows in boot camp assistant, it would not do it, so i run the disk utility and it found and fixed errors, and since then i have noticed a folder in my root directory called lost+found, is this important? or can i just delete it and assume it was file it didn't know what to do with while disk utility was fixing the errors. inside the lost+found folder it created are empty folder titled with seemingly random numbers like 223348585 [/QUOTE]
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