BootCamp Full Driver List Working.

I got it going earlier but had the pci bridge yellow icon still so will report back 😉

good read on the ars site 😉

Can we expect an update from Apple on Bootcamp to fix the issue of needing extra drivers?

THANK YOU! Worked perfectly!

monkeyoby curious if you have any flags in your computer manager ?
I did everything and still have some yellow flags for the PCI express under sys devices
everrything seems to work fine but just curious if you have those

I tried this out with my new CTO 3.0 Mac Pro. I have 4 GB installed in it.

Everything works (including sound), and the only [!] flags I have in Device Manager are for the unused PCI Express slots.

OK, everything works except for one thing... I only see half my RAM in Windows under Boot Camp (2 GB).

I really can't completely understand this one. The 4GB of RAM I have installed is definitely there and being used by the Mac.. all 4GB of it shows up in system profiler, activity monitor, hardware test, istat, etc. and it works extremely well (I have stressed it out repeatedly with no issues).

Seeing the way the channels are allocated, I'm guessing that I need to fully populate the 2nd riser for all the RAM to show up.

The weird way that the Mac Pro allocates RAM may be the issue. You install the RAM in pairs on alternating risers... A 1&2, then B 1&2, then A 3&4, then B 3&4.

My population is as such:

A/1 - 512MB
A/2 - 512MB
A/3 - 1 GB
A/4 - 1 GB
B/1 - 512MB
B/2 - 512MB

It's almost like I must fill in B 3&4 in order for A 3&4 to be seen in Windows.

Maybe a firmware update will solve this issue in Boot Camp. I like to use Parallels anyway, so when that is fixed I will just use it instead. In the meantime, I can live with 2 GB in Boot Camp Windows.

I have a few flags for unused PCI slots, other than that all is well.

The limit (what it can see) for RAM in XP (32Bit) version is 3GB RAM, 2GB seems odd, but still you won't get more that 3GB to show.

Hope that helps

My population is as such:

A/1 - 512MB
A/2 - 512MB
A/3 - 1 GB
A/4 - 1 GB
B/1 - 512MB
B/2 - 512MB

It's almost like I must fill in B 3&4 in order for A
3&4 to be seen in Windows.

Can you switch the 1GB DIMM's in A 3 and 4 with the 512MB in A 1 and 2. If you can do that, and your theory is correct, than Windows should display 3GB. Just a thought.

I've downloaded all of these drivers and just have a few nagging issues.

1) Serial ATA access in XP is REALLY slow
2) I can't mute the Mac's speaker in Windows without plugging my external speakers into the front headphone port

If anyone has solutions to either of these problems, I'd love to hear them!

Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Great infrmation and thanks for posting it. I'm sure Apple will update BootCamp soon but until that happens you're links fill the bill.

Has anyone tried Parallels yet? I'm more partial to that avenue rather then rebooting and would be interested in how it works.

Tim...

20" iMac 2GRam/500G-HD, 13" BlackBook 2GRam/120G-HD, Black Video iPod 60Gig Mac OS X (10.4.7) HPColorLaserJet 2500 Printer, LaCie 600Gig External & LaCie DVDRW/CDRW Drives

"Can you switch the 1GB DIMM's in A 3 and 4 with the 512MB in A 1 and 2. If you can do that, and your theory is correct, than Windows should display 3GB. Just a thought."

I could do that, but I'll leave it the way it is for now - now that I have an idea of what is going on. See, at first I found that 3GB comment odd, until I read this comment:

"The limit (what it can see) for RAM in XP (32Bit) version is 3GB RAM, 2GB seems odd, but still you won't get more that 3GB to show."

And sure enough, I did a Google search and was -stunned- to find out this was the fact. You have got to be kidding me!

As I used it for a while, I noticed another potentially serious problem: HD access is slow as molasses in Windows XP under BootCamp.

I don't mean "slightly slower" as compared to Parallels (which always seems faster because it uses the better Mac OS X interfaces)... I mean slow slow.

Then I read down and saw this comment:

"1) Serial ATA access in XP is REALLY slow".

It's -horrible!!-. I have been sitting there watching the processors hardly do anything while the hard drive goes sllllowly. I thought it might be the RAM, so I decided to run Geekbench (in Windows). No problems there... I broke 400 (I got 374 in Mac OS, FYI.)

The fact I can't see any other installed Hard Drives either makes me think there is some kind of bug/incompatility in the way the HDs are seen/used by Windows under Boot Camp.

So it isn't the RAM... that turns out to be a WinXP limitation combined with how my RAM modules are populated.

The slowness is definitely the HD access. Hope someone can fix it. It is barely usable. But once the stuff gets into RAM things fly, so I can at least use Boot Camp as a kludge until Parallels is fixed (or Boot Camp is updated.. for which I have much less hope) for the few programs I need it for.

Ahh being a new adopter! 🙂

Has anyone tried Parallels yet? I'm more partial to
that avenue rather then rebooting and would be
interested in how it works.

Parallels currently does not work on the Mac Pro. Which is too bad because I think it would absolutely -scream- on these machines. I use it on my MacBook Pro and also an Intel iMac. It is amazingly fast on those machines, especially things like Hard Drive access and booting up.

I find the only limitations on my MBP and Imac were RAM (even 2GB installed wasn't enough for Parallels if I wanted my virtual machine to have any decent ram size), and the virtual memory paging which causes a lot of needless HD access.

The former is solved by my Mac Pro now having 4GB (soon 6). The latter was solved in the latest Parallels beta, which allows that virtual thrashing to be toggled off.

Otherwise Parallels is a dream, and on a Mac Pro with so many speedy processor cores and RAM, it will truly be a great way to use Windows if you don't need to play games.

In the meantime... Parallels won't work on the Mac Pro. Parallels promises a fix "ASAP" in a post on their forums.

I haven't tried it personally, but it was posted elsewhere that IDE support in Boot Camp is much much faster than the SATA support. I'm going to try to find a spare IDE drive and copy over my stuff to see how it goes...

Just so you know, this is a better/more up to date version of the chipset drivers.

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&Produ ctID=2308&DwnldID=10928&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng

It seems that those were the ones I was using; it didn't update anything when I ran the installer. Still slow SATA. 😟