I just installed Win XP via Boot Camp on a Mac Pro (1st gen Quad core 2.66Ghz, 4GB RAM).
It seems like almost everything is working fine except that Windows doesn't seem to know I have a graphics card in there. Using the generic VGAsave driver, I can get full resolution and color, but the screen updates are slow and there is no 3D support. No graphics cards show up in the Device Manager and in the display settings, I am told the computer doesn't know what kind of graphics chipset is being used. I tried installing the ATI Catalyst drivers but the installer said I didn't have the correct hardware or software installed. I do have the .Net framework, Service Pack 3, and DirectX 9 installed.
When I look at the VGA Save driver I see similar conflict messages as the ones mentioned in this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/273420/
I disabled the all of the Intel 5000 PCI express items for slots 3 - 8... or at least the ones that were flagged for conflicts. But that didn't seem to help or hurt anything.
I have two ATI x1900 graphics cards in this machine. One of them was going bad so I tried replacing it with another one we had in the office. The new card doesn't work without the old card in the machine (the fans go full blast and there's no signal to the screen) so things are already a bit weird with the setup. The new card is in the bottom slot and the old card is in the next space up. There are no other expansion cards in the computer. There are 4 Hard Drives: The system drive, two 500GB drives striped together, and a 1TB drive that has the Boot Camp partition on it.
Does anyone know if there's a way to get this thing working right?
D.W. Burman
It seems like almost everything is working fine except that Windows doesn't seem to know I have a graphics card in there. Using the generic VGAsave driver, I can get full resolution and color, but the screen updates are slow and there is no 3D support. No graphics cards show up in the Device Manager and in the display settings, I am told the computer doesn't know what kind of graphics chipset is being used. I tried installing the ATI Catalyst drivers but the installer said I didn't have the correct hardware or software installed. I do have the .Net framework, Service Pack 3, and DirectX 9 installed.
When I look at the VGA Save driver I see similar conflict messages as the ones mentioned in this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/273420/
I disabled the all of the Intel 5000 PCI express items for slots 3 - 8... or at least the ones that were flagged for conflicts. But that didn't seem to help or hurt anything.
I have two ATI x1900 graphics cards in this machine. One of them was going bad so I tried replacing it with another one we had in the office. The new card doesn't work without the old card in the machine (the fans go full blast and there's no signal to the screen) so things are already a bit weird with the setup. The new card is in the bottom slot and the old card is in the next space up. There are no other expansion cards in the computer. There are 4 Hard Drives: The system drive, two 500GB drives striped together, and a 1TB drive that has the Boot Camp partition on it.
Does anyone know if there's a way to get this thing working right?
D.W. Burman