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blue screen during boot camp driver intstall on xp

hi,
i am having a tough time getting boot camp set up on my new imac.

the partitioning and windows xp pro sp2 installation went fine, but when i try to install the boot camp drivers from the osx install dvd, i get a system error blue screen part way through the installation.

apple then advised me to try downloading and installing the boot camp xp drivers 2.1. but when i try to open that download, nothing happens. i also tried the alternate instructions for opening that download ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1845?viewlocale=en_US), but that only produces for me a windows installer popup window of .msp command line options.

i then tried deleting and recreating the boot camp partition and reinstalling windows but i am getting the same issues.

any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks
joe

Message was edited by: Joe Nowell

2010 imac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Aug 25, 2010 10:00 PM

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Aug 27, 2010 9:50 PM in response to Joe Nowell

The same thing happened to me on my new 6 core Westmere Mac Pro. Win XP SP2 installation went fine but I got the blue screen of death during the bootcamp driver installation. I restarted the new XP partition and tried to reinstall the boot camp drivers again. Same result in a different part of the install. I tried it a third time and it installed all the way through. I'm, not sure if I should trust the installation or not...

We would both appreciate any help here!

Steve

Aug 28, 2010 4:57 AM in response to Joe Nowell

Could this have anything to do with Win XP trying to install what it thinks are the correct drivers for the internal Mac hardware? Win XP seems to want to install or at least search for hardware drivers as soon as it's up and running. Is it correct to just tell it to stop searching? Even after the boot camp drivers got installed after my third try, XP still offered to get some different audio hardware drivers. Could these background attempts to find drivers by XP be a reason for the blue screen of death?

Aug 28, 2010 7:40 AM in response to Joe Nowell

ok, so i finally got mine working as well. what i had to do was erase and reinstall mac osx and and then partition and reinstall windows again. i dont know if the problem had something to do with using the setup assistant when i first started my computer to transfer info from a time machine backup. maybe some of my old settings from my older osx 10.5 computer prevented the install of the more current boot camp drivers? i dont know. but i didnt import info with setup asst this last time and then went straight to partitioning and installing windows and drivers and it went fine. i then used migration assist after for the transfer.

i went into the apple store and because they didnt have another current imac osx install dvd to use to try to reinstall the drivers, they used a 10.6.2 one from an older model imac. this installed but the graphics were not working right, even after then installing the 3.1 boot camp driver update.

i think the popups during the driver installation are standard and normally they will disappear on their own and you shouldnt have to touch them. the high def audio driver also was not installed for me, or found on internet by xp. i think this is maybe something not included yet in the 3.1 update, and not something to worry about or symptomatic of a bad partition or install. hopefully. the apple store thought it was for external audio devices and not for internal speaker sound output...

blue screen during boot camp driver intstall on xp

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