MacPro 1.1 lion and bootcamp Windows 7???

I have a MacPro 1.1 with 2 dual core 3.0 ghz processors. I was using bootcamp with Vista just fine until I realized that Vista was the 32 bit and only saw one processor. That started bugging me. I upgraded to Snow Leopard (10.6) and decided to upgrade windows to Win7 64 bit. Windows is on it's own hard drive. In the process I ran into the "BootCamp is not compatible with this computer" crap. I restarted holding down the <option> key and started in Windows Vista. Did the upgrade to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. There was a few glitches with the drivers but I have all worked out via windows update but the apple keyboard. My main issue there is the cd eject button doesn't work. I don't remember all of the issues I ran into, but it all works fine. I now have an issue with the ATI 1900 video card. I need better drivers that Windows can supply. I can't play Call of Duty MW3 or Battlefield 3. there is a DirectX issue.

What ***** is Apple makes these awesome machines that are powerful enough to run for years and they decide not to support MacPro 1.1's "becuase of it's age". What's the point of buying an advanced machine for over $5000 if they stop supporting it when it is still a very capable computer.

I have Mac Pro 1.1 running Windows 7 with Parallels Desktop 6. It is 32 bit.

I have a Mac Pro 1.1 Running Win 7. Like Marshall I have it running on a seperate drive as well. I haven't made the jump to Lion yet. I did have issues with the initial install and found these instructions. It's a bit of a pain but once you have your custom install disc, and don't loose it you are good for any re-installs.

http://timothybrown.tumblr.com/post/110271493/installing-windows-7-x64-on-a-mac- pro-late-2006

Once you are in Windows do not run any of the Apple updates in regards to boot camp.

By the time Win 7 came out I think I had already moved on to the 8800GT so I didn't see any of the x1900 issues. Now I'm rocking the 5770 on the same 2006 system and it's been great on both OS's.

Boot Camp 3.0 and even 3.1 were the crappy HFS driver issue (it isn't really a driver you can uninstall or do anything with except rename the two files and use Paragon HFS or MacDrive)

You need Apple's hardware abstraction and support to manage power management.

It runs without but no fear of using either, including 3.2 or 3.3.

And a breeze to use Nvidia or AMD driver, Realtek and others.

Getting Windows 7 64-bit Pro though is. Modify the DVD or install two Windows OSs, a 32-bit that you can then install x64.

I just thought I would share my Mac Pro 1.1 experience. I recently had to replace a failed memory riser card by buying a pair from ebay (they both failed a month apart) and took advantage of the opportunity to replace my Mac Pro 2006 with the 2008 model for $700 and inserted my drives and upgraded to 10.8.5. Just holding off on Mavericks for now... Bought a Radeon 5770 and graphics are just peachy (i'm not a gamer). Then I put a samsung ssd 512gb in as the system drive and a 3tb for data so that machine is going fine 🙂

What to do with the 2006 Mac Pro?. No one wants it on ebay so I thought i'd try it on Windows. Windows 32bit loads via boot camp once you figure out how to recognise the sata bus (depends on your windows 7 dvd version i think) but under 32 bit you only get 2gb usable ram ! something , not just video is addressing 2gb so that *****. You cannot boot off the 64bit dvd (try it) so i installed 64bit windows 7 on a clean drive on my core2dou pc then put the drive in my 4core xeon mac pro. It booted fine and installed alot of drivers for the xeons automatically. Then I got some drivers from 64bit bootcamp and sound drivers from the realtek website. Then , I upgraded to 64 bit windows 8 pro and everything still works. Then, I downloaded the free windows 8.1 pro update and everything still works..... As PCs go, this is still a pretty fast machine, and gives little away to , say an i5 or i7. If you put in an SSD and gamers video card it would fly, but i dont need that....

Nice score on the 2008, you might have some processor upgrade option on that machine if I remember correctly and I think those processors are fairly cheap on ebay. I finally had to say goodbye to my 2006. Still ran great but the specs on the 2012 iMac were inticing enough (2GB video and 32GB RAM). I managed to still get $700 for the MacPro though. I had the 5770 in my 1.1 and it ran Windows 7 better than the Mac OS at the time. Just FYI it doesn't get any easier. This was just training for getting Windows to run on an external drive via thunderbolt on an iMac. Nothing's ever easy with this crap. LOL.