Black Screen for Install of Windows 7 on Mac Pro Early 2008

I have a mac pro early 2008 with lion 10.7.4 and boot camp 4.0.3 I think... anyways the problem I have is when I am in boot camp, and configure the HDD partition, then the machine reboots... when it reboots and starts up boot from the install DVD (legit retail copy) I just get a black screen on both monitors. No curser, nothing just a black screen, same as I get when the machine is off! the little white LED lights are on and nothing...
I can hear the DVD spinning up and down a few times then that just stops too...
I have tried resetting the PRAM, pulling the power and watch battery inside for a few minutes, I tried the "fix" that is online for the imac problem with the answerfile and got no different resutls with anything, still the same probelm.
I have the OEM ATI Radeon video card 512MB.
* as a side note, I was never able to download the windows support drivers prior to trying the install... I tried and tried for the last two days so this time I "unchekced" that box and just went for the install...
Any help will be greatly appriciated, thank you :-)
Mike

Hey Hatter, I know this is a little old but I've just picked up this thread and I wonder if you can help. I get the same issue as:
JRASupport
Jun 28, 2012 1:56 PM 
I have a mac pro early 2008 with lion 10.7.4 and boot camp 4.0.3 I think... anyways the problem I have is when I am in boot camp, and configure the HDD partition, then the machine reboots... when it reboots and starts up boot from the install DVD (legit retail copy) I just get a black screen on both monitors. No curser, nothing just a black screen, same as I get when the machine is off! the little white LED lights are on and nothing...
I get that dreaded black screen following partioning of my drive on the Windows 7 install on Mavericks on a Macbook Pro late-2008 (MBP5,1) but I'm at a loss to work out where the solution lies in the thread! ;-(
To date I've spent about 5 days going back and forth trying all sorts of combinations, including the obvious:
- removing bootcamp 5 and reverting to 4
- installing the imac drivers
A HUGE thanks if you can offer any help as I'm at the end of my tether...!
Adam
BTW I'm working off USB with 32 bit Windows 7 ISO

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    Results from Step 1:
    com.rogueamoeba.InstantOn (5.0.2)
    com.squirrels.driver.AirParrotSpeakers (1.7)
    com.squirrels.airparrot.framebuffer (3)
    com.attotech.driver.ATTOiSCSI (3.4.1b1)
    com.avatron.AVExVideo (1.6.1)
    com.makemkv.kext.daspi (1)
    com.blackmagic-design.iokit.DeckLinkFrameBuffer (9.5.2)
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    net.telestream.driver.TelestreamAudio (1.0.5)
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    foo.tun (1.0)
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    com.parallels.kext.prl_usb_connect (7.0
    com.parallels.kext.prl_hypervisor (7.0
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    com.parallels.kext.prl_netbridge (7.0
    com.parallels.kext.prl_vnic (7.0
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    com.agilebits.onepassword-osx-thumbs
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    com.squirrels.kextinstaller
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    drwxrwxr-x 7 root  admin 238 May 14 23:19 iLifeSlideshow.framework/
    /Library/Input Methods:
    total 0
    /Library/InputManagers:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Oct 27  2011 DeliciousSafari/
    drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 May 15 07:05 Ecamm/
    /Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
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    drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel  102 Oct 25  2010 AdobePDFViewer.plugin/
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    drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel  102 Jun 16  2011 Quartz Composer.webplugin/
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    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin  856 Apr 27 12:13 flashplayer.xpt
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    drwxr-xr-x 3 root  admin 102 Jul 23  2011 Perian.component/
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    drwxr-xr-x 3 root  wheel    102 Oct 27  2011 DeliciousSafari Addition.osax/
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    /Library/StartupItems:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Apr 27 13:39 tap/
    drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Sep  1  2009 tun/
    /etc/mach_init.d:
    total 0
    /etc/mach_init_per_login_session.d:
    total 0
    /etc/mach_init_per_user.d:
    total 0
    Library/Address Book Plug-Ins:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 3 dburr admin 102 Mar  5 02:01 SkypeABDialer.bundle/
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    Library/Fonts:
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    Library/Frameworks:
    total 0
    drwxrwxrwx 5 dburr staff 170 Aug 24  2010 EWSMac-GC.framework/
    drwxrwxrwx 5 dburr staff 170 May 17 22:42 EWSMac.framework/
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    total 0
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    Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 5 dburr staff 170 Feb  4 04:26 Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin/
    Library/Keyboard Layouts:
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    Library/LaunchAgents:
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    drwxr-xr-x 4 dburr staff 136 May 11 10:08 MailTags.mailbundle/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 dburr staff 102 Apr 26 08:28 SpamSieve.mailbundle/
    Library/PreferencePanes:
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    Library/Services:
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    drwxr-xr-x 3 dburr staff 102 May 15 10:04 ToastIt.service/
    Library/Spotlight:
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