All working fine on mine too, on the first go. Silly hardmac.com...
Parallels refuses to work though - just forces me to reboot. Sigh.
Parallels refuses to work though - just forces me to reboot. Sigh.
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Has anyone installed Bootcamp on a 24" yet?
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Allotriophagy said:
Hmmmm you might want to try a fresh re-install of OS X with just the bare necessities, then add the latest release of Parallels FIRST...
If might be a software conflict? I'm running Parallels on my 24" with no issues whatsoever...
Then maybe add back in each piece of software one at a time to see if there is something conflicting with Parallels?
So i got a replacement iMac that is exactly the same config as my last one. EXCEPT this one will not display on the built in 24" screen. ANy ideas?
sweet160 said:Even though I am slightly concerned the bootcamp issues on the 24" I will order one with the 7600GT, hopefully it will run XP also.
Is it a widespread problem or just a few isolated cases?
I dunno. It has worked just fine for me.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/239257/
Can you all go post your info in this thread. I am trying to find the common thread that grants some of us windows XP and denies the rest of us.
Can you all go post your info in this thread. I am trying to find the common thread that grants some of us windows XP and denies the rest of us.
Nope, not a video driver. It really can't be since others on here have it working. Also, I can get Windows XP installed using an external monitor which would also be using the video driver (be it the basic VGA driver used during the install or the actual nVidia driver after the install). Nothing I tried allowed me to get the internal display to work with any BIOS based OS.
On a side note, Apple did agree to take back my iMac for the sole reason that it did not work with Boot Camp despite that Apple doesn't support Windows or Boot Camp. My basic argument was that even though Apple doesn't support BC/Winows, they do "sell" it. The sell it in their "I'm a Mac" commercials. They sell it in the stores by having Mac's running Windows. They sell it over the phone at 1-800-MY-APPLE. I bought the line and bought a 24" iMac and it wouldn't do what I was told that it could. After talking with no fewer than 8 Apple employees I got to one that very quickly agreed to take the Mac back and expedite me a new one at no cost to me. On top of that it was even a CTO machine with the 7600GT GPU.
My new iMac will be here Wednesday. I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will work this time.
On a side note, Apple did agree to take back my iMac for the sole reason that it did not work with Boot Camp despite that Apple doesn't support Windows or Boot Camp. My basic argument was that even though Apple doesn't support BC/Winows, they do "sell" it. The sell it in their "I'm a Mac" commercials. They sell it in the stores by having Mac's running Windows. They sell it over the phone at 1-800-MY-APPLE. I bought the line and bought a 24" iMac and it wouldn't do what I was told that it could. After talking with no fewer than 8 Apple employees I got to one that very quickly agreed to take the Mac back and expedite me a new one at no cost to me. On top of that it was even a CTO machine with the 7600GT GPU.
My new iMac will be here Wednesday. I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will work this time.
Everyone seems to be jumping very quickly to the conclusion that it must be the Mac that is the problem.
Has anyone considered that it might be the XP disc thats being used?
The Boot Camp instructions are very specific about the XP install disc that must be used:
Are you guys that are having problems meeting those specific requirements? If your CD isnt an SP2 disc, there are instructions around the web for 'slipstreaming' it to be an SP2 disc.
Has anyone considered that it might be the XP disc thats being used?
The Boot Camp instructions are very specific about the XP install disc that must be used:
Are you guys that are having problems meeting those specific requirements? If your CD isnt an SP2 disc, there are instructions around the web for 'slipstreaming' it to be an SP2 disc.
RobTuck said:
That's true. It is possible it's user error. You also cannot use an XP disc that is not already with SP2. You can't install an original XP which doesn't have SP 2 with hopes of upgrading it. It must be SP2. Just another thing to check to be sure.
I have gotten two 20" Intel iMacs, 2 Intel Mac minis and a Mac Pro all up and running with Windows via Boot Camp all using the same Corporate Install disk of Windows XP SP2. As I mentioned a few posts ago, I got Windows installed using an external display. So, it is not the disk. It is not the driver. It is not Windows (since Ubuntu doesn't work either). It has to be the Mac.RobTuck said:
By the way, even if you are using a disk that is SP1 or before, you still get to the blue screen to install Windows just the install doesn't work when you are done. With the 24" iMacs that are affected, you can't even get that far.ipoddin said:
topgunn said:
hardware issue?... hmmm... 2 same conf. imacs, one installs xp, the other does not... same xp cd... a defected video card? but it runs just fine, everything else works great... I wonder how many people are having this issue...
also, i've tried installing vista... RC2... 80Gb, NTFS partition... error - controller is not set up in the BIOS to support the partition - something like that... I wonder if this is connected (I am loosing my mind with bootcamp! starting to wonder all kinds of stuff
I successfully got xp pro installed via bootcamp AND vista installed via parallels- on my 24" iMac. Works great!
There is a poll posted here but it is in German. Basically, of 110 people who voted, 51 had this problem and 59 did not. Factor in that people who have this problem are much more likely to find this poll and thus vote in it. I would venture to guess that maybe 20% of the 24" iMac have this problem.rgbmaster said:
This problem has also been reported with some users of Mac Pros and 23" ACD's. There is a solution for this particular situation however. Basically, they install Windows using a different monitor. Once you get it installed and install all of the drivers, you shutdown and reconnect the 23" display and then startup into Windows. You won't see what is going on you just have to know that it is booting. Once it is done, you disconnect power from the ACD and then reconnect power. At this point the ACD should work in Windows until you have to start it up again. Some users have reported that using WinACD eliminates the need for powering down the display. However, neither of these options seems to work for the 24" iMac. I can't just power down the 24" internal display and WinACD wouldn't recognize my internal display.
windows works fine in my Imac 24" When i say it works fine it works fine by windows standards which = crap, dull, and boring
One user here at Mac Rumors, Flyinace2000, had a 24" iMac that ran Windows just fine. He had unrelated issues and ended up having to send the computer back to Apple. His replacement computer had this problem and did not display Windows on the internal display.rgbmaster said:
I don't think that all replacement machines will run Windows although it does seem like fewer machines are coming from the factory that have this problem. For example, when the 24" iMac was first released, everyone stated as fact that the 24" model was incompatible with Windows. A few early adopters had to step forward to say that it in fact did work with theirs. The poll I linked to above had nearly 50% of the respondants claim that they had this problem (the poll is a few weeks old). A poll I posted here on Mac Rumors a few days ago had only 2 people say they had this problem (me and Flyinace2000 although now you have the same problem).
Who knows, maybe there was a bad batch of nVidia firmware that made it out the door although the revision ROM's are the same for iMacs that do work and ones that don't. I asked the guy at Apple that agreed to take my computer back what would happen if the replacement had the same problem. He told me I could send that one back and try again. Hopefully that won't be required.
topgunn said:
I have also installed XP on two 20" iMacs and two 24" iMacs using the same corporate XP SP2 CD. No problems at all. Well, almost. Both 24" iMacs suffered from the white screen of death during initial installation, but thats easily recoverable with a PRAM reset.
However, has anyone (having problems) tried a different XP CD?
RobTuck said:
I made a disc image of a Windows XP SP2 disc at work today. I am gonna burn that and give it a try tonight.