All the drivers were on the Vista 64 bit. I did not install any chipset or
mobo drivers. It seemed to be already there. the only thing I needed was
the printer, video card and mouse drivers (for my logitech) The rest must
have come from the Vista DVD.
I did find my Nvidia problem which was my fault...a driver conflict I
corrected after which it jump to a 5.9.
Also Vista is seeing all 8gb of ram. The sticks were not in the right
order...we had taken some out doing the install with the MS tech. I went
back in and made sure the were paired correctly and that did the trick.
So all is well with my Vista 64 and zero conflicts with any Mac
hardware/software.
Its is an Intel chipset so that must help.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Quote:
> Yes, I am familiar with the Option key for selecting the boot drive.
>
> You need chipset drivers for the mobo. It is an Apple mobo, of course.
> Where are you getting the 64bit chipset drivers for Windows for the Apple
> mobo? I suspect that the memory controller needs the proper driver to see
> 8GB.
>
> "Jim" <Jim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2C9844A6-CD70-40F3-9EE3-2FF2E1BA5801@xxxxxx Quote:
> >I forgot to mention that I do not use boot camp. The Mac Pro just boots up
> > to the last OS you were using. Only if you hold down the option key while
> > booting can I change OS.
> > Apple says that if you run Vista 32 bit, and boot up with either bootcamp
> > or
> > just a straight boot their EFI/Bios has a limit on ram you can use....only
> > 2gb, which is not a popular feature with anyone. But they say if you
> > intall
> > Vista 64bit, there is no limit to ram Vista 64 sees...at least up to 128GB
> > that is.
> > So far that appears to be true.
> > I will see if I can get all my 8gb with Sp1.
> >
> >
> >
> > "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
> >> >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
> >> >