27" iMac, ATI 5750, Bootcamp3.2 and the occasional black screen with XP SP3
Wanted to share my experience with the subject setup and potentially save somebody a lot of time and frustration. My installation would occasionally work. Sometimes it would boot into a black screen and sometimes it would work perfectly. I tried a lot things:
1. Deleting the bootcamp partition and clean install.
2. Renaming AppleHFS.sys, etc to *.old.
3. Downloading and installing some mobility graphic drivers from downloadatoz.com.
4. Downloading and installing the desktop graphic drivers from amd.
5. Using 7zip to unzip the bootcamp3.2.exe file and manually extracting and installing the graphic drivers.
6. Following the directions from Apple support article TS3173.
Everytime I thought it was fixed, the black screen would appear again. One of the comments I read on the forums really struck a chord with me. "XP is getting long in the tooth." So, I ditched my XP SP3 disc and bought an OEM, 64-bit disc of Win7 Professional. So far, this has worked perfectly with absolutely NO black screens (even during installation) on my 27" iMac with the ATI 5750 graphics card.
Message was edited by: rc_sportpilot
Message was edited by: rc_sportpilot
So, a little update on the situation...
I tried repairing the WinXP installation from the install CD and it did not solve the problem.
Right now I'm trying to completely reinstall Windows XP (SP2 this time) and the Apple drivers to see where the problems start to appear (at WinXP SP2 install, at the SP3 install, at BootCamp 2.1 install,...)
Also, something quite important I forgot to mention in my first post is that the problem appeared after cloning the BootCamp partition from another Mac (iMac 20" Alum) using Mike Bombich's NetRestore tool.
If you have any suggestions, I would really appreciate it!
thanks
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