8800GT Mac Pro & Windows XP : No Go

[smirkingboy]

I'm running windows on my recently acquired 8800GT Mac Pro from a completely separate drive - no bootcamp at all, just a windows machine, using the drivers included on the Mac Pro install disc.

I've gotten the Windows XP side up and running, but after a while, it stops booting into windows completely. Eventually, I put it into safe mode, and uninstalled the NVIDIA drivers, as per a friend's suggestion. It worked, and was booting up fine in normal mode, although there was insane window lag and so on (I assume from the lack of graphics card drivers).

I tried installing the Win XP 8800GT drivers from the NVIDIA site, to no avail. Windows would not load. Removed them in safe mode, once again, Windows would start.

So I know that the graphics drivers are the problem. Anyone else having this problem? Any workarounds? Anything?

Please keep in mind, this is not running in parallels, or fusion, and is not a partition of the OS X system drive.

 

[digiegg]

Damn that sucks... Maybe try their beta drivers?
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

You can try to install some older drivers and see if they work out...

 

[Cromulent]

Boot Camp is just the drivers and a partitioning utility. You are using Boot Camp.

Now which version of XP are you running? 32 bit or 64 bit?

 

[smirkingboy]

32

Boot Camp is just the drivers and a partitioning utility. You are using Boot Camp.

Now which version of XP are you running? 32 bit or 64 bit?

If what you're saying is that in using their drivers, I'm in Boot Camp, then cool - but you did read that I didn't partition it though right? It's on it's own drive?

Anyway, yeah, I'm using 32 bit. I heard very nightmarish stories about getting 64 to work, so I left it alone - although I guess Win XP 32 can only see 2 GB

 

[smirkingboy]

Tanks

Damn that sucks... Maybe try their beta drivers?
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

You can try to install some older drivers and see if they work out...

Thanks man, I will give that a whirl tonight.

 

[Boemer]

after bootcamp -> winxp cd, and new start in windows xp

i inserted the first install CD I got with my Mac Pro (+ 8800GT), and there was a program, on the CD special for windows, it installed all my drivers (bluetooth, nvidia, sound etc....)

works fine....

 

[brandnb]

after bootcamp -> winxp cd, and new start in windows xp

i inserted the first install CD I got with my Mac Pro (+ 8800GT), and there was a program, on the CD special for windows, it installed all my drivers (bluetooth, nvidia, sound etc....)

works fine....

aka, the leopard disk.