Ran into an issue... My Mac Pro (dual 45nm Core 2 Based Quad Core Xeons) was running Windows Vista natively. No Boot Camp or Mac OS. Video card fried and replaced it with a PC Version GTX 260. The hopes of Mac OS X going back on and working properly are about dead. Anyways, long story short I need to reformat after messing up my Vista installation. Got my snazzy new copy of Windows 7. I toss it in my drive and attempt to boot from it... Nothing. I start the install from inside my at the time current and mildy broken Windows Vista. Everything goes fine and the computer restarts and starts doing it's configurating and what not. Then, at the end of the install the system hangs for 10 minutes. I force restart. After that, the system assumes Windows 7 is installed and gives me options like safe mode, last known working configuration and what not... Those don't work obviously. I restarts. If it boots off of the hard drive, I get that Windows menu. When I boot off the DVD, or atleast I assume it's booting off the DVD, I have no idea as I can't see or have an option to choose, it just sits at a blank screen with a blinking cursor indefinitely. I tried unplugging the system and waiting 30 seconds and plugging it back in and trying again, nothing...
So I went further. I dug up the old Mac Video card. It sorta works with extremely gargled display, it's an 8800 GTX. It was in pieces and I couldn't find the heatsink screws so I put a 5 lb weight on it to keep sufficient pressure on the GPU so the heatsink makes good contact. The difference with this is I can see the grey screen upon boot but I have no other options.
The blinking cursor still occurs. I also have a non mac keyboard attached the machine and don't know any keyboard commands to pull up a BIOS or what ever voodoo it is a Mac uses. I've got a Mac Pro installation DVD I'm gonna try next. I don't want Mac OS or boot camp installed just Windows running natively.
Anybody got any idea what I can do to get passed the blinking cursor? I've tried other operating systems and it's the same issue. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
- Tommy
So I went further. I dug up the old Mac Video card. It sorta works with extremely gargled display, it's an 8800 GTX. It was in pieces and I couldn't find the heatsink screws so I put a 5 lb weight on it to keep sufficient pressure on the GPU so the heatsink makes good contact. The difference with this is I can see the grey screen upon boot but I have no other options.
The blinking cursor still occurs. I also have a non mac keyboard attached the machine and don't know any keyboard commands to pull up a BIOS or what ever voodoo it is a Mac uses. I've got a Mac Pro installation DVD I'm gonna try next. I don't want Mac OS or boot camp installed just Windows running natively.
Anybody got any idea what I can do to get passed the blinking cursor? I've tried other operating systems and it's the same issue. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
- Tommy