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Vista Rc1 on Mac Pro

Eodchop

Eodchop

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Aug 3, 2006
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Help! I have tried everything. Bootcamp.
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I tried formatting an entire hard drive as ntfs. i keep getting a message saying to make sure the disks controller is enabled to allow booting. Does anyone know where i do this at. I hear that vista supports booting via efi. I have also tried booting with my OS HD pulled out and just keeping the NTFS SATAII drive in.

Thanks in advance:(
 
I heard (cant confirm nor deny) but the only way right now, is to upgrade to vista from a working copy of XP
 
No. Not really. I popped in my RC1 DVD and opened up bootcamp, selected Install Windows now and it deleted by copy of XP I already had and did a clean install.

However, this was on a MacBook.
 
diametric said:
No. Not really. I popped in my RC1 DVD and opened up bootcamp, selected Install Windows now and it deleted by copy of XP I already had and did a clean install.

However, this was on a MacBook.
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Guess what? We are talking about install Vista RC1 on Mac Pro now, not MacBook, Macbook Pro, iMac, Mac MINI but MAC PRO.
 
Vista RC1 on my mac pro

I followed the above steps and everything worked except the display driver. I have tried downloading the nvidia driver. Nothing works. I have went into the device manager and tried updating that way. Does anyone have any ideas at all?
 
some guy in the forum found out the solution

apprently you need to have 2gb of ram inorder to get it working

i think it needs the 2 memory riser taken up inorder for it to work?
 
I installed Vista RC1 on my Mac Pro (4x512MB RAM) in Boot Camp without any major incident. I had XP installed in a partition of my main drive, and used the Vista install disc to erase that partition and do a fresh install of Vista. BTW, waaay too much eye candy for me. Also installed in in Parallels where none of the eye candy installed. Overall, I got a very basic installation in Parallels - it must have sensed much less power during that installation.
 
aiongiant said:
some guy in the forum found out the solution

apprently you need to have 2gb of ram inorder to get it working

i think it needs the 2 memory riser taken up inorder for it to work?
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If that is the case, then that is why it won't work on my machine, I only have 1gig of ram using 1 riser card. I wonder why that would cause it not to install?

Oh well, I have vista installed my PC, and I don't really care for it.
 
Laslo Panaflex said:
If that is the case, then that is why it won't work on my machine, I only have 1gig of ram using 1 riser card. I wonder why that would cause it not to install?

Oh well, I have vista installed my PC, and I don't really care for it.
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I think he's saying you need RAM on both both riser cards for it to work :confused:.
 
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