Mac Pro Bootcamp help

[tayy]

So I just tried with Microsofts own Remote Desktop and its the same problem, when Im installing the Nvidia driver the screen goes in sleep mode, and Remote Desktop Freezes : /

Really thinking about giving up, I just wanted Windows to play some games. Used to have a Gaming PC next to my MacBook Pro, but then I got this Mac Pro very cheap and I thought it would be more flawless to install Windows so I sold my Gamer PC.

 

[thornslack]

It's normal for the screen to go black for some moments while installing graphics drivers. Are you allowing the process to complete or is it actually freezing? It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes max for NVIDIA drivers to install. Maybe let it sit a moment?

 

[GuiPol]

I don't think BootCamp Assistant is really necessary if you are installing Windows to its own drive. As far as I know, all it does is the special partitioning stuff (which you don't need if you are using a separate drive) and preps a driver disk (which you also don't need if you will have an Internet connection in Windows).

When I installed Windows, I just pulled all the other drives out (leaving the drive intended for Windows), and used the Windows installer to install directly on that drive. Then after booting up Windows I installed the BootCamp drivers.



A LOT of people have said its impossible to install Windows from USB thumbstick on a Mac Pro, although I'm not sure why and it doesn't really make sense to me.

Hello ActionableMango !

i'm having a strange reaction from a newly installed windows 7 here on my mac pro 4 (flashed to 5).

I couldn't install windows 7 (neither bootcamp nor manual install would work) when the mac rebooted from the windows 7 DVD (which i know fro SURE works) it would eventually get stuck at a blinking cursor in the upper left corner on a black background (DOS style if you know what i mean).

I've read here on this thread and another one that the only way to get this working was to unplug all HFS/APFS drives *and put the SSD (ntfs formatted) in bay 1 *... i did it and to my surprise, it worked like a charm (the "why" remains a mystery but hey... i wont sweat it.)

But know that i've plugged back everyhting, when i boot to my windows 7 (with bootcamp driver package installed of course!) it cannot "see" any DRIVE except the one it is installed on !!! I've got another NTFS drive which is not seen either and the superdrive, the optical drive from which i've installed windows 7 in the frist place (!) is not seen either !!

As a "plus" the eject button from the keyboard does not work for superdrive (quite logical if it's not detected one might say..)

i did try a SMC reset and PRAM reset too...to no avail ! Any input on that "strange behavior" ?? All drives except the one it is installed on are not appearing anywhere ! And there are no red marks or warning signs on the device manager, everything seems to have been installed right !