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Fedge said:
No. The only yellow exclamation I see is "Base System Device".

You can get rid of that with the intel proset network drivers.

Now I just have those pesky PCI-E exclamations and thats it.

I'm not sure why you're having that problem with the audio drivers...maybe your chipset didn't install correctly.

BTW
For those who want to format a chunk of their HD in FAT32 so that OSX can read and write there to share files etc, you can format it larger than 32gigs by following these instructions. I have mine at 53 gigs right now.
 
Success! I got my audio issues sorted through. I also *think* I have fixed all the kernel panics for now.

I'm not going to re-install parallels until they get a stable build out.

Next on my list is getting Front Row to work. 1.2.3 is installed in the system folder, but I can't figure out how to access it. A certain Andrew's little work around didn't work.
 
I made the XP cd but everytime I go to boot from it the screen goes blank and the system just sits there. Any ideas? make a new iso?


mrjynx
 
Mrjynx said:
I made the XP cd but everytime I go to boot from it the screen goes blank and the system just sits there. Any ideas? make a new iso? mrjynx
Does the CD show up as a bootable drive when you reboot and hold down the Option key?
 
Mrjynx said:
I made the XP cd but everytime I go to boot from it the screen goes blank and the system just sits there. Any ideas? make a new iso?


mrjynx

Sounds like there may be an issue with the ISO, probably the boot sector or something. Try making a new one.

What I did was make my ISO on my existing Windows PC (Mac Pro not arrived yet), download Virtual PC 2004 from Microsoft's web site (free!) and install using my ISO on that. The ISO worked fine in Virtual PC, so it should be fine on my Mac Pro.
 
Fedge said:
Success! I got my audio issues sorted through. I also *think* I have fixed all the kernel panics for now.

I'm not going to re-install parallels until they get a stable build out.

Next on my list is getting Front Row to work. 1.2.3 is installed in the system folder, but I can't figure out how to access it. A certain Andrew's little work around didn't work.

Good to hear you got it working. What was the problem?

I tried that frontrow workaround too, but ended up having to fix a couple of files...I hadn't read that it only works in PPCs =/ Hopefully there will be a fix for the mac pro soon.
 
damado said:
Good to hear you got it working. What was the problem?

I tried that frontrow workaround too, but ended up having to fix a couple of files...I hadn't read that it only works in PPCs =/ Hopefully there will be a fix for the mac pro soon.

I think a windows update got stalled, and a hotfix prevented the audio driver from installing properly. So I manually installed a couple of hotfixes, and it seems to be working now.

And yeah, I'd LOVE to get front row working.
 
damado said:
BTW
For those who want to format a chunk of their HD in FAT32 so that OSX can read and write there to share files etc, you can format it larger than 32gigs by following these instructions. I have mine at 53 gigs right now.

how is this working for you?

on his page he says "Macs seem to have a problem with this disk too".
what do you have on the fat32 partition? osx? xp? swap?
 
peas said:
how is this working for you?

on his page he says "Macs seem to have a problem with this disk too".
what do you have on the fat32 partition? osx? xp? swap?

I took the 160 gig HD that came with the mac pro and made 100 of it NTFS for windows. After windows was installed, I then ran that fat32 program in the dos shell thing and it made the last 50some gigs into a fat32 partition (I named the drive in windows first, but didn't format it). I can use it fine to put files in that I need to share b/t the OSes.
 
I don't know if I did it correctly, but I follow through the instruction making my own Slipstream CD and seam it install just fine. It feel a lot faster! Logging into Windows and overall Windows XP Pro performance feel like I'm actually using a real PC now. But I havent test out 3D Games and Benchmark yet.

After finish this is what it showing as my IDE...

Screen 1

Screen 2

Screen 3


Strange that I see Duplicate of Primary IDE Channel, but as long as it doesn't show PIO anymore.:D


However, after finish installation my device manager show a lot of Quatation Mark like some of the device is not install or working properly. Yes I did install Mac Driver via using Bootcamp. Is this normal? Should I leave it alone or is there a fix for this?


Screen 4

Screen 5




Thanks, hope everyone get their working as well.
 
Turning off speaker on Mac Pro

I have went through the steps successfully, have sound working, but am wondering..

How do I turn off the built in speaker on the Mac Pro for Sound? I get sound coming out of my speakers plugged into the audio jack in the back as well as the built in speaker on the Mac Pro?

Thanks!!
 
i don't think theres anyways of turning it off as far as i know

so what i did was i put the volume all the way down then crank the volume on my external speakers...works like a charm.. can't hear the internal speaker and my external is jsut as good as it was before
 
aiongiant said:
i don't think theres anyways of turning it off as far as i know

so what i did was i put the volume all the way down then crank the volume on my external speakers...works like a charm.. can't hear the internal speaker and my external is jsut as good as it was before

Hmm, where did you find the volume for the external speakers?
 
Wintrmte said:
Hmm, where did you find the volume for the external speakers?

Line out... or alternatively... use the mechanical legacy control known as the volume knob. :)
 
Wintrmte said:
Ok -- So use Line out instead.. Got it.

This is about as good as it gets unfortunately... I should have been clear instead of just giving the joke answer, but the internal speaker is hooked up to the master volume control... and line out is hooked up to line out... the only way around it is turn down the master volume in Windows, and physically turn up the volume on your speakers.
 
So no one figure out yet about the quatation mark on the Intel PCI in Device Manager? Or it is just empty slot and I shouldn't worry about it?
 
Neonguy said:
So no one figure out yet about the quatation mark on the Intel PCI in Device Manager? Or it is just empty slot and I shouldn't worry about it?

I'd plug in another pci-e card if I had something other than an nvidia card here =/ I'd be curious to see what it would do with those exclamations.
 
XP64 Working

First... I know XP64 sucks for games and stuff, but I'm wanting to run Maya and Realflow 64 bit versions to access more than 4 gigs of RAM. That said... I was able to get XP64 to install using the slipstream method, but substituting XP64 drivers for the 32bit versions. I didn't use bootcamp at all - just slipstreamed the XP64 CD, booted off of it, installed XP64 and then installed video, network and audio drivers (after updating the audio driver through the device manager). I'm getting 74mb/sec SATA and everything else appears to be working correctly. That said, the only thing I'm having a problem with which kind of defeats the purpose of running XP64 is that the OS seems to only recognize 2 gigs out of 4 in my computer. It sees the RAM sticks but only reports 2 gigs. I tried the /pae switch in the boot.ini file but it didn't seem to do anything.

A couple of interesting notes, the Mac keyboard/ mighty mouse worked fine for me during install and now does under XP. Cntrl-alt-delete etc. seem to be working. No eject key though. Also, I have a dedicated drive for XP, so I temporarily pulled the OSX system drive while I installed XP64. I find the computer is very picky about timing on hitting the option key to select the OS at boot. Unlike my Macbook, I have to hit the option key right after the screen turns black. If I wait until the light grey screen comes up, it always boots to OS X. Strange.

Any ideas on the RAM issue? If I get that one thing worked out it would be a screaming XP64 workstation.
 
Any ideas on the RAM issue? If I get that one thing worked out it would be a screaming XP64 workstation.

on a similar but not entirely related note. I put an extra 1gb ram in my machine bringing it up to 3gb and did the /3GB extension in windows but no joy it is still only showing 1.98gb in the System profile. Anyone got any expereince with this !?
 
Terrabit said:
Hi!!

A big thanks to all posters in this forum!!! I have made a significant update to the XP instructions on the website based on your postings! I'm sorry some of you burnt so many CD's in the process of getting XP installed. Hopefully the new instructions will help others avoid the same difficulties :)

http://macprojournal.com/xp.html

I have also added a new page on possible hardware dedicated cryptographic support (AES, MD5, SHA-1) on the Mac Pro as shipping today!! I hope its interesting to you. ( I personally like ciphers a lot. )

I intend to add a few more pages in the near future.

If possible, it would be good if people linking to the website update their links to point to the full human readable URL, and avoid using the fall-back IP address. The IP address makes it harders for others Mac Pro users find the website contents via google.

Terrabit!!

My macpro work just fin! Great job Terrabit! Thanks a lot!
 
ok well i followed the instructions perfectly but it appears i am getting 1.8mb/sec

i opened device manager and it says this:

IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers:
_____Intel(R) 631xESB/6321ESB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 269E
_____Intel(R) 631xESB/6321ESB/3100 chipset serial ATA storage controller

Under System Devices:
it shows all the intel(R) 5000 Series Chipset Error reporting registers (three of thoes)
the intel(R) 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers -25f5 (x2)
the intel(R) 5000 Series Chipset Pci Express (x5)
the intel(R) 5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers -25f1

alot more of the intel(R) 5000 Series Chipset but i don't want to type them all.


__________________________________________________________

It looks like to me that the chipset drivers were installed but the hard drive drivers didn't install correctly, am i right? is there a possible way to do it without reinstalling?
 
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