Unofficial 64-bit support in Boot Camp?

[Trekkie]

i believe the latest mac pros now come with device drivers for 64-bit.

 

[wahit]

i believe the latest mac pros now come with device drivers for 64-bit.

Hi mate.

When I tried to install Windows XP 64-bit on my MacPro, when I inserted the OSX Disk because of the drivers install, an error message from Apple appeared, saying that I could only install Windows XP 32bit SP2 or Windows Vista.

Looks like Apple doesn't give us Windows XP 64-bit drivers

 

[wheezy]

I just barely finished an installation of Vista Ultimate 64bit and used the restore discs that came with my MP for all the drivers. So far everything seems to be just fine, recognizes both processors and all 6GB of RAM. I haven't 'done' anything with it yet though to see how it performs, but I do get a 5.5 experience rating. (5.5 on hard drive, 5.7 on ATI 2600, 5.9 on everything else)

 

[Supaklaw]

Hi mate.

When I tried to install Windows XP 64-bit on my MacPro, when I inserted the OSX Disk because of the drivers install, an error message from Apple appeared, saying that I could only install Windows XP 32bit SP2 or Windows Vista.

Looks like Apple doesn't give us Windows XP 64-bit drivers

No, XP Pro 64-bit won't auto-install off the Leopard disk. What you can do though is open the disk by selecting 'explore' to get to the separate driver packages. You should be able to install your intel ethernet drivers, and your realtek audio drivers, and your bluetooth drivers. (I don't think you need any others off the disk unless you want the isight ones.)

If not, there are a bunch of threads on here that have direct download links for your XP64 drivers to work. Keep in mind the bootcamp control panel won't ever work in XP... so rebooting to OS X will always be a manual deal.

I've tried all 4 windows flavors and found XP64 to be the fastest on my mac pro, it's worth the minor headache of manual driver install (I just keep all my drivers and installers on a USB external drive and install directly after I update windows to SP2 on a re-install)

 

[wahit]

No, XP Pro 64-bit won't auto-install off the Leopard disk. What you can do though is open the disk by selecting 'explore' to get to the separate driver packages. You should be able to install your intel ethernet drivers, and your realtek audio drivers, and your bluetooth drivers. (I don't think you need any others off the disk unless you want the isight ones.)

If not, there are a bunch of threads on here that have direct download links for your XP64 drivers to work. Keep in mind the bootcamp control panel won't ever work in XP... so rebooting to OS X will always be a manual deal.

I've tried all 4 windows flavors and found XP64 to be the fastest on my mac pro, it's worth the minor headache of manual driver install (I just keep all my drivers and installers on a USB external drive and install directly after I update windows to SP2 on a re-install)

Hi mate!

So I can take from the OSX disk the audio drivers, bluetooth and ethernet. What other drivers do I need, and where can I get them?

I need to push my processor/graphic card/RAM to the maximum, since I'll be doing a lot of 3D modeling and rendering. I also need my wireless connection to access my office network (internet+external disks).

I'm sorry for so many questions, but I'm a 99,9% OSX user. All the trouble with Windows was long gone before this 'little issue'.

 

[Supaklaw]

Hi mate!

So I can take from the OSX disk the audio drivers, bluetooth and ethernet. What other drivers do I need, and where can I get them?

I need to push my processor/graphic card/RAM to the maximum, since I'll be doing a lot of 3D modeling and rendering. I also need my wireless connection to access my office network (internet+external disks).

I'm sorry for so many questions, but I'm a 99,9% OSX user. All the trouble with Windows was long gone before this 'little issue'.

You'll want to update your graphic card drivers, but you don't need them off the disk, you can get 64-bit ones off the net... and the ones on the disk are old anyway. (my nVidia GT 8800 has drivers as of november, the disk ones are from Feb) If you can't get those 3 main sets of drivers off your disk there's 2 threads on here that have download links to the drivers in question. In my experience the bluetooth works without the drivers, you simply set it up in windows but you should do it anyway. The apple updater is useless... it only helps you download quicktime and safari. Your main concern is just the ethernet drivers to get online to download anything else.

After than make sure your updated to SP2 (there's no SP3 for xp64). Personally I like to do the windows install... install the ethernet drivers... then let windows auto-update (which takes 2-3 restarts)... then install anything else. XP 64 is nice, you should be happy with the speed for 3D. Max that RAM.

 

[wahit]

You'll want to update your graphic card drivers, but you don't need them off the disk, you can get 64-bit ones off the net... and the ones on the disk are old anyway. (my nVidia GT 8800 has drivers as of november, the disk ones are from Feb) If you can't get those 3 main sets of drivers off your disk there's 2 threads on here that have download links to the drivers in question. In my experience the bluetooth works without the drivers, you simply set it up in windows but you should do it anyway. The apple updater is useless... it only helps you download quicktime and safari. Your main concern is just the ethernet drivers to get online to download anything else.

After than make sure your updated to SP2 (there's no SP3 for xp64). Personally I like to do the windows install... install the ethernet drivers... then let windows auto-update (which takes 2-3 restarts)... then install anything else. XP 64 is nice, you should be happy with the speed for 3D. Max that RAM.

Hi!

Back to my "problem" with WinXP 64bit! The last two weeks were insane with a lot of work to do. Only now I have time to solve this problem.

I'm going to try to install WinXP 64-bit on my MacPro, but please help me on something: where can I get the drivers I need to my graphic card, processor, etc?! You said I could find them on the web......?

I'm sorry for this question, but I'm a Mac user for a long time, and I don't remember the last time I went searching around drivers for Windows


Thanks mate!

 

[Supaklaw]

Hi!

Back to my "problem" with WinXP 64bit! The last two weeks were insane with a lot of work to do. Only now I have time to solve this problem.

I'm going to try to install WinXP 64-bit on my MacPro, but please help me on something: where can I get the drivers I need to my graphic card, processor, etc?! You said I could find them on the web......?

I'm sorry for this question, but I'm a Mac user for a long time, and I don't remember the last time I went searching around drivers for Windows


Thanks mate!

If you look on the Leopard disk (insert it, use EXPLORE to look at it otherwise it auto-opens to the Bootcamp installer which won't work on 64-bit, that gives you an error) you only need the ethernet (Intel) drivers and audio (Realtek) drivers. Just open those folders and install them manually. Once you install those, go to nVidia (or ATI) and download their latest drivers for you graphics card. Those are the only drivers you need for the Mac Pro to function, everything else are just Windows drivers that you can download on your own.

If you do a search on here, macrumors forums, there's like 2 other threads discussing 64-bit installs and I know there were a couple posts that had direct links to the drivers as well if you can't get the ones off the Leopard disk to work.

Found the link... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/231901/

 

[wahit]

If you look on the Leopard disk (insert it, use EXPLORE to look at it otherwise it auto-opens to the Bootcamp installer which won't work on 64-bit, that gives you an error) you only need the ethernet (Intel) drivers and audio (Realtek) drivers. Just open those folders and install them manually. Once you install those, go to nVidia (or ATI) and download their latest drivers for you graphics card. Those are the only drivers you need for the Mac Pro to function, everything else are just Windows drivers that you can download on your own.

If you do a search on here, macrumors forums, there's like 2 other threads discussing 64-bit installs and I know there were a couple posts that had direct links to the drivers as well if you can't get the ones off the Leopard disk to work.

Found the link... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/231901/

Hi mate, i've managed to get everything working perfectly except two things: keyboard and wireless card.

Check out this thread please! > https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/616983/


Cheers

 

[satyajit]

x64

So I was setting up my new Mac Pro today, I installed 64-bit Vista because I have it configured with 6gb of ram and would like to be able to use all of it. I was planning to just hunt around for drivers as everyone else seems to from what I've read, but I noticed that on the restore disks under Drivers\Apple\, there was a file called BootCamp64.exe, so I decided to run it, and now everything works perfectly, keyboard, bluetooth, everything. Strangely there were also Windows drivers for the multi-touch trackpad in the MacBook Air. Has anyone else noticed this? Is this on all Leopard disks?

I did just this but it comes up with an error saying that I need a service pack 2, which I do have. Some thing I missed?

 

[Lordedmond]

Just a note

Don't jump down my throat for posting IMac info in the Pro forum, out of interest I have a 2009 IMac and the windows 64 bit drivers are on my install disks? so it would seem that they are on all the new 10.5.6 disks

 

[Crashless]

The drivers should be on there - but with an iMac - unless you have more than 4GB of memory, there isn't any reason to go with 64-bit.

After windows installs, you should be able to just insert the OSX disk and it should auto-install everything you'll need.