No I did not use anything from Mac. I just booted up with the Vista Ultimate
64 dvd and it loaded fine, I did a clean-full install. There are no Mac
files on this new copy and it is running great. To get back to my Mac I
reboot and hold down the option key. There are Mac files only in the Bios/EFI
for motherboard and chip set.
I got Nivida card driver worked out, there was a conflict from another
driver on my system. Index for graphics card is now back to 5.9.
Still have a issue with Vista seeing all 8gb. I will install sp1 and see if
that helps.
I have been pleasantly surprised with Vista 64. All my software runs great!
I just had to download my hardware 64bit driversf first.
Now I am glad I went to 64bit.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Quote:
> I didn't see the Mac Pro part on the other ng. Sorry. That matters.
>
> Have you inserted the Leopard dvd while running Vista? Did the driver
> package autostart and install the Mac drivers for Vista for you?
>
> I run a Windows partition on my MacBook Pro, but I have not attempted a
> 64bit Windows because of drivers. I'm not so sure that the Mac drivers for
> Vista on the Leopard dvd include 64bit drivers at all. I'm pretty sure that
> they are only 32bit. The Boot Camp main page at:
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html does clearly say "Boot
> Camp supports the most popular 32-bit releases of Windows XP and Windows
> Vista." It never refers to 64bit editions. That means that the Mac drivers
> for Windows are almost certainly 32bit drivers only.
>
> If you don't know for sure, check in the apple.com discussions accessed via
> the support tab on apple.com.
>
>
> "Jim" <Jim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5A6590FA-0EB9-47F2-AC00-71E48EF6F59F@xxxxxx Quote:
> >I orginally posted over at Vista 64 but they suggested I try here.
> > I just ungraded to Vista Ultimate 64 bit (I should add I also called MS
> > techs but with no solution).
> > I have 8gb of ram and Vista 64 only see's 4
> >
> > I have a Nvidia geforce 8800GT graphics card and downloaded the lastest
> > drivers for Vista 64 bit. Vista see's the card and the correct driver
> > version however on my performance index I get a 1. It should be getting
> > at
> > least a 5.4. This card has 512mg of ram on it, plus it is one of there
> > faster cards. On my Vista 32 it saw the full Nivdia and gave me a 5.7.
> > So I
> > would like to fix this as well.
> > I do video editing so I need all the speed I need.
> >
> > I must add this too...I hope it is not a factor but I am running a Mac Pro
> > Intel.
> > However I run Vista only, boot camp is set to vista and when I upgraded I
> > by-passed boot camp and did a full clean install of Vista 64 on a new
> > drive.
> > (I found I dont like Mac's) The Mac EFI (bios) will only allow 2gb for
> > Vista UNLESS you go to Vista 64 and then all will be seen .... I called
> > Apple
> > support to make sure and they said yes, if you load Vista 64 all ram will
> > be
> > seen. That is why I went to Vista 64. When I was with tech spport (from
> > India) they seem to think Vista 64 could only see 4gb but I hope that is
> > not
> > true.
> >
> > Any ideas
> > Jim
>