ok, i'll try and explain the problem, i have an old Mac Pro 1,1 with updated firmware to 2,1. has the ATI Radeon HD 5770 video card, and 2 hard drives for now, one with Mountain Lion running 32 bit, the second drive had Mavericks, Yosemite, and ElCapitan preinstalled running 64 bit. also have 32 gigs of ram.
here is what has happened, i went and partitioned the first drive to install win 7 professional 32 bit on the first drive. the install went well. then MS decided to install driver for the video card, when it rebooted, the screen would start to show normally, then instead of going to a desktop screen it stayed black. cursor was there but nothing,. then hitting like enter or another key would get the windows logo and nothing else.
so i had to shutdown, and start up into safe mode and remove the driver they installed and then when i rebooted back up it works fine. in device manager, it shows generic video card.
now the video card had been flashed to work in a Mac Pro by the seller of the video card.
another idea as to what is going on. i am planing on installing win 7 ultimate 64 bit soon after i create the modified DVD so it will install and run 64 bit, but the video card driver problem is crazy.
any ideas.
thank you
here is what has happened, i went and partitioned the first drive to install win 7 professional 32 bit on the first drive. the install went well. then MS decided to install driver for the video card, when it rebooted, the screen would start to show normally, then instead of going to a desktop screen it stayed black. cursor was there but nothing,. then hitting like enter or another key would get the windows logo and nothing else.
so i had to shutdown, and start up into safe mode and remove the driver they installed and then when i rebooted back up it works fine. in device manager, it shows generic video card.
now the video card had been flashed to work in a Mac Pro by the seller of the video card.
another idea as to what is going on. i am planing on installing win 7 ultimate 64 bit soon after i create the modified DVD so it will install and run 64 bit, but the video card driver problem is crazy.
any ideas.
thank you