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Boot Camp w/ Windows XP 64 bit
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<blockquote data-quote="sculptingman" data-source="post: 596025" data-attributes="member: 48619"><p>Actually... you can run XP64 under a boot camp install.... the only trouble is that boot camp can not burn 64 bit XP compatible drivers...</p><p></p><p>You run boot camp as normal, select the formatting and all... then simply run the XP64 install disc...</p><p></p><p>When it comes to the drivers, you will have to find XP64 drivers independently on line and install each by hand.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The only problematic driver is the video driver.... I have the Nvidia 4500FX... when the install rebooted into XP there was no XP64 compatible driver for this card and the screen came up scrambled.</p><p></p><p>How we got around this was to copy the XP64 driver from Nvidia onto the root level of the drive and literally figure out the sequence of keys strokes needed to execute a Run command and step thru the driver options... without being able to see anything onscreen. ( we used a partition boot camp install of XP32 on another drive so that we could copy files to and from the XP64 drive... which we formated with the windows only format.)</p><p></p><p>Once that was done and the driver installer ran... we rebooted and found that XP64 ran perfectly.</p><p></p><p>Except we had no ethernet connection, no control over the sound card, and could not get the monitor to shut down completely ( screen dark but backlight still on)</p><p>We eventually located drivers for the sound and ethernet cards... but for the display- we simply have to re-boot into Mac OS and shut down from there to get the display to power off completely.</p><p></p><p>One other glitch is that Boot camp will no longer recognize a "selected" boot volume... Because there is not a Boot Camp compatible startup control panel installed on the XP64 drive.... left to itself the system will always boot into XP64.</p><p></p><p>So- I have to hold down the alt key every time I restart, and select the boot volume from the list.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sculptingman, post: 596025, member: 48619"] Actually... you can run XP64 under a boot camp install.... the only trouble is that boot camp can not burn 64 bit XP compatible drivers... You run boot camp as normal, select the formatting and all... then simply run the XP64 install disc... When it comes to the drivers, you will have to find XP64 drivers independently on line and install each by hand. The only problematic driver is the video driver.... I have the Nvidia 4500FX... when the install rebooted into XP there was no XP64 compatible driver for this card and the screen came up scrambled. How we got around this was to copy the XP64 driver from Nvidia onto the root level of the drive and literally figure out the sequence of keys strokes needed to execute a Run command and step thru the driver options... without being able to see anything onscreen. ( we used a partition boot camp install of XP32 on another drive so that we could copy files to and from the XP64 drive... which we formated with the windows only format.) Once that was done and the driver installer ran... we rebooted and found that XP64 ran perfectly. Except we had no ethernet connection, no control over the sound card, and could not get the monitor to shut down completely ( screen dark but backlight still on) We eventually located drivers for the sound and ethernet cards... but for the display- we simply have to re-boot into Mac OS and shut down from there to get the display to power off completely. One other glitch is that Boot camp will no longer recognize a "selected" boot volume... Because there is not a Boot Camp compatible startup control panel installed on the XP64 drive.... left to itself the system will always boot into XP64. So- I have to hold down the alt key every time I restart, and select the boot volume from the list. [/QUOTE]
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