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Bootcamp: "Thou shalt not install Windows"

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Shwappy

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Sep 20, 2015
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Greetings everyone,

I've got some trouble installing Windows XP.
So I go through all of Bootcamp's instructions and at the end it asks me to install Windows.
I leave my computer to restart and I'm greeted with a black screen. Btw when I press Alt to show the drives, my windows partition doesn't even show up.

My Specs:
Mac Os X 10.5.8
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
6 GB RAM 1066 MHz DDR3

Please be my night on a white horse, and let me know any kind of solution you have.
Thank you !
 
Shwappy said:
Greetings everyone,

I've got some trouble installing Windows XP.
So I go through all of Bootcamp's instructions and at the end it asks me to install Windows.
I leave my computer to restart and I'm greeted with a black screen. Btw when I press Alt to show the drives, my windows partition doesn't even show up.

My Specs:
Mac Os X 10.5.8
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
6 GB RAM 1066 MHz DDR3

Please be my night on a white horse, and let me know any kind of solution you have.
Thank you !
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Only the drives with installed operating systems will show up on Boot/Option. Your Windows partition will not show, since it is empty. You should see your inserted CD/DEV or USB Drive labeled as Windows, which holds the installer.
 
haralds said:
Only the drives with installed operating systems will show up on Boot/Option. Your Windows partition will not show, since it is empty. You should see your inserted CD/DEV or USB Drive labeled as Windows, which holds the installer.
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But even when I start the cd from the Boot/Option menu. The screen is black.
 
Boot Camp is not really needed when using a drive just for Windows, but has to have all paretitions wiped - format as Windows MBR.

XP has not been supported from Apple and BCA since BCA 3.x
 
If your graphics card exceeds 1 GB Video-RAM, you will have ~ 3.5 GB RAM (what Windows XP 32 Bit can support) minus the Video-RAM, what can result in hassles.

Install a 64 Bit Windows, e.g. Windows 7.
 
might be worth looking at wine or parallels etc, may be less hassle.
 
Synchro3 said:
If your graphics card exceeds 1 GB Video-RAM, you will have ~ 3.5 GB RAM (what Windows XP 32 Bit can support) minus the Video-RAM, what can result in hassles.

Install a 64 Bit Windows, e.g. Windows 7.
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But What I don't understand is that it has always worked before, on the same computer.
 
did you change monitors? or using the same one? maybe its not getting a signal on boot?
At any point did you install an OS X version newer than 10.5.8? Did you update software on 10.5.8 particularly bootcamp software.
 
Have you plugged in any external hard drives lately? I don't have a Mac Pro, but once on my iMac, there was an incompatibility between boot camp and an external hard drive I had.

The only way I could boot into Windows was to unplug the hard drive.
 
AppleNewton said:
did you change monitors? or using the same one? maybe its not getting a signal on boot?
At any point did you install an OS X version newer than 10.5.8? Did you update software on 10.5.8 particularly bootcamp software.
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I'm using bootcamp 2.0 so that can't be the problem. And no external drives are plugged in.
 
Can you see any other boot partitions i.e.; Apple OS X partitions? And I ask about any newer OS' 10.9 and 10.10 at any point if they were installed then reverted since they chance efi settings on some machines.

Next step is to try another hard drive or partition, use BC to prepare the drive for Windows and try the process again.
 
AppleNewton said:
Can you see any other boot partitions i.e.; Apple OS X partitions? And I ask about any newer OS' 10.9 and 10.10 at any point if they were installed then reverted since they chance efi settings on some machines.

Next step is to try another hard drive or partition, use BC to prepare the drive for Windows and try the process again.
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Nope I can't see my Windows Partition. The Os has always been 10.5.8.
 
On a short tangent.

I hope this computer is not on the internet, Leopard hasn't been supported in years, and XP hasn't been supported since April.
 
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