BootCamp Full Driver List Working.

Yes sorry, I forgot to mention that this won't help the SATA speed at all. I slapped a PATA drive in my system and I'm just running off of that for XP. PATA is much faster. When they figure out the SATA stuff, I'll ghost my PATA drive to a SATA drive and be done with it.

Try adding the /PAE switch to your boot.ini

/PAE
Causes Ntldr to load Ntkrnlpa.exe, which is the version of the x86 kernel that is able to take advantage of x86 PAEs. The PAE version of the kernel presents 64-bit physical addresses to device drivers, so this switch is helpful for testing device driver support for large memory systems.

The CPUs in the Mac Pro should definitely support PAE, and I think the motherboard chipset should as well, being one of Intel's server/workstation chipsets.

To do this, you'll need to edit the file boot.ini in the root directory (likely C:\). Currently, there's probably something similar to this:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
/FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /USEPMTIMER

Change it to:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
/FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /USEPMTIMER /PAE

And then reboot. Hopefully Windows will be able to address the full 64 GB of memory.

Another option would be to install the x64 version of Windows XP Pro. But then you'd have to hope there's 64-bit drivers for all of the hardware 🙂

Good luck!

Won't these drivers work?

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results.aspx?strTypes =all&ProductID=2532&OSFullName=Windows*XPProfessional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go%21

I just tried and these wouldn't install. Says I don't have the right computer...

I'm just going to give up with the SATA for now and copy my drive over to IDE.

Thanks Pygmie, I will try the PAE stuff. Now to get SATA faster...

hi can you tell me how to do this,do i download them in mac mode,in windows mode i cant get on line

I just downloaded the drivers on the Mac, burned them to a CD, and installed them in Windows from that. All you really need are the network drivers, since once you have those, you can download all of the others from Windows.

Any firewire 400 drivers available?
I tried my AcomData mini pal 160 gig external drive
and the USB works but the firewire 400 drivers are not found.



MAC Pro, G5(2.5,2.5,2.7),17inPB G4, Mini G4, 30,23,20 cinemas Mac OS X (10.4.7) mac osx server 3.9,4.7

I'm running a FireWire drive with the Mac Pro in Windows and haven't had any problems at all. I've just installed the basic Intel chipset drivers - nothing special.

I will tell you this... it's related to the SATA drives transfer mode being in PIO instead of UDMA. If you go into device manager and take a look at the properties of your "Primary IDE" channels, click on "Advanced Settings", you'll see the "Current Transfer Mode" will say PIO for your SATA HD's.

To me it looks like a driver issue, but also a problem with the EFI/bios hooks detecting the proper transfer modes of the HD.

It gets even more interesting if you try to use the PATA channel. My PATA HD will show up as UDMA mode 5 if I hook it up as a Master on the PATA channel. If I hook it up as a slave with the DVD drive on Master, the DVD drive shows up as UDMA 5 and the HD as UDMA 0. If I hook up the HD as a master and the DVD drive as slave, my HD shows up as UDMA 5 and the DVD drive is UDMA 2. However, when the DVD drive is on slave, I can't eject properly from OSX. F12 and also the eject menu option don't do anything (even tried option-eject, doesn't do anything). The only way to eject the DVD drive in OSX, that i've found, is from a shell by typing 'drutil eject'.

So, fun stuff.

SO, for now, i'm running with my PATA HD as a master, dvd drive as slave, and sata drive. PATA drive has XP, SATA has OSX. And that means from OSX I have to go to a shell to eject the dvd.



Mac Pro 2.66

I installed windows XP professional on a separate disk. No need for boot camp. It booted up fine on its own. Installed all the drivers mentioned, BUT the audio driver will not install as it says microsoft bus driver is not installed. No idea what this is and have searched the web to no avail...well I know what it is - it is a high definition audio driver.........but since I don'r know the board etc cannot find the right file. Any ideas - does this not happen on boot camp? My xp professional disk was sp1 and I slip streamed it with sp2. Installed fine, all other drivers ok.

Den

Sman55: When you say you used a "separate disk" what is exactly do you mean? How did that work for you?

I tried WIN XP SP1 on my test MacMini a few months ago and it worked well, except for a few drivers.

I can't get this working.

I've tried using Windows XP SP2 install discs but when I install I get an error on PCI.SYS and then install stops.

I only have 1 500 GB drive.

Is that the reason this isn't working?

-Dave

Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Yes, could someone who's gotten this working post a recipe for it.