This might still leave specific functionality unavailable, like
some onboard components, raid, lan, sound or whatever.
In any way it is not advised (from my side) for the faint hearted
but may still simply work, windows PC stuff isn´t predictable...
Cheers
tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "pingo van der brinkloev" <pingo(at)pingofilm.dk>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: Win64 on Mac HW for XSI
> Hey Joe. I got windows xp x64 running on a macpro 8 core. There were no
> problems installing it, and the drivers are pretty easy to find... I
> still got them if you want links.
>
> !!! However I'm am not sure I got this mainboard chipset driver, what Tim
> is referring to??? I certainly didn't download it, but I'm going to check
> it out monday.
>
> cheers
>
> pingo
>
> On 07/12/2007, at 10.21, Tim Leydecker wrote:
>
>> The most important driver you need is the mainboard
>> chipset driver, if not available (either by providing it
>> during install or maybe even installing it later into XP64)
>> the box will most likely "behave normal" but will be
>> considerably slower when benchmarked as XP will
>> use a generic driver. That seems to be something many
>> people forget when they "just installed XP and it works fine".
>>
>> Happened to myself as well (not specifically on a mac, thought).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> tim
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Laffey" <joe(at)laffey.tv>
>> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
>> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 12:46 AM
>> Subject: Re: Win64 on Mac HW for XSI
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Gene Crucean wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Dec 6, 2007 11:33 AM, Joe Laffey <joe(at)laffey.tv> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I know there was a recent discussion about this. Anyone have any good
>>>>> resources for figuring out how to get Win64 going on Mac Hardware? I
>>>>> am not
>>>>> finding much with Google... or I am not searching for the right
>>>>> thing.
>>>
>>>
>>>> What is your specific problem? It's really just a few drivers you
>>>> need.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I have not bought the Mac yet. I just want to be sure it wil
>>> indeed work, or I will sink the $6k into a Windows only box instead. I
>>> would rather have a Mac, as it could run Mac OS as well...
>>>
>>> So no problem with network drivers? Or drivers for the Quadro 4500 from
>>> Apple? Do the nVidia drivers detect the card as an Apple branded crad
>>> like the ATI drivers do (or did, not sure).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
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