Boot Camp Newbie Question

Hi all,
I just bought HALO: Combat Evolved for PC last week and loaded it on my Dell. The graphics were really bad due to a weak but operational graphics card.
I got the idea last night to try it through Windows on my iMac. So I loaded Windows via Boot Camp with no problems and went through all the updates that Windows needed. I crossed my fingers and installed HALO and it worked. Then I tried to run the game.
An error window displayed and said "a debugger has been detected, please disable the debugger to continue." I've done some sleuthing and think that it may be related to the video driver. I'm running an ATI Mobility Radeon 2600 XT. Any of you have a suggestion for me or know if I can (and if it would be wise) to change my video driver? Can Windows and OSX run different video drivers (i.e. I change the driver in windows but not OSX)? Thanks!
Will

So I was able to change my video driver in Windows XP SP2 and that did it! If anyone has this same issue, I followed the directions on this web page:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1017&message=24987376
I found this somewhere else in the Apple discussions.
Note: I haven't had any issues in OSX or Windows since changing the driver.
Will

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i plan on installing boot camp and using windows only for my XP copy of Adobe CS. so here's my question...
how many GB's do you think is necessary to partition for this operation? i dont want to partition too much, because i know i wont be using XP a lot, but CS files can get big.
also...i have a 40GB external USB hard drive at my expense as well. could i possibly revert XP to that disc instead of partitioning?

You can refer to this forum for all of your BC questions:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1165

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I just partitioned a 500GB drive 300/200 with hopes of installing Vista Basic onto the 200GB partition.
All my other hard drives are removed.
I got 10.5 installed and Software Updated on the 300GB volume.
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This sounds like my boot drive cannot be partitioned and this is why I have no options in BCA -- true?
I won't be able to install Vista on a second boot-drive partition -- true?

Okay, Erasing my 200GB partition to MS-DOS (fat) let me move another step with Boot Camp Assistant.
Now it appears to take the next step in BCA, I am required to Erase my entire hard drive into one volume/partition, and with that goes my new 10.5 install -- true?
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2) Create a 32MB Vista partition on a second internal HD (and mix a boot system with data on the same volume)? This is not good, either.
From here, it looks like either choice is goofy, but I will likely go with putting both OSes on the same boot volume (and eat any time experimenting with this new stuff when one or the other turns bad).

Boot Camp virgin question :)

Hi all,
Sorry for posting a question that is so noobish but I wish to install XP to my Macbook Pro using Boot Camp and I was wondering if the process re-formats the HDD completely or if it creates a partition for XP on-the-fly without touching the existing data on the Mac side of things !
The reason I ask is obvious in that I do not want to lose the contents of my machine in the process !
So, basically, is Boot Camp a tool to add a partition to your HDD without disturbing the contents of what is already there ?
Thanks in advance.

Open Boot Camp Assistant and save the PDF manual and go through it.
Backup your system.
Yes, it just 'adds' a partition IF it can find a large enough unfragmented contiguous free space to make the partition.
Otherwise, after your backup, just reformat and restore to regain and unfragment free space.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

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Because there's nothing there and because you can't write on the OS X volume in Windows.
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antivirus that is much better than commercial antiviruses like Kaspersky. I used Microsoft Security Essentials on my old PC and it was the only antivirus that ran correctly, but you can continue using Kaspersky if you want

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No... all you need is Sun's VirtualBox VM for free, then pick up Windows - I'd go with Windows 7 32-bit Home Premium System Builder for $90 from Newegg etc.
You don't need to buy Snow Leopard. Or use Boot Camp just to run Windows and web browsers.
Opera does a good job of being IE compatible; I like Firefox 3.7.x, and use IE8 most of the time.

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Hello there. I just made this account forum-usable, so I hope I posted this in the right place.
I just purchased a MacBook, the new aluminum unibody 2.4 Ghz model, and upgraded the memory from 2GB to 4GB. However, I was just wondering about Boot Camp. When my computer arrives (I ordered it online), I plan to install Windows XP, simply so that I can play Windows-based games on it, for they are cheaper and more common. When I do play a game, or any application on Windows XP, would I be correct that the game will use the processors and video card present in the Leopard operating system? For example, I want to play the game Neverwinter Nights 2, and as it requires so much memory, it will recognize my upgraded memory, correct? Please tell me if this is a bit confusing; I apologize in advance if it is.
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Hello,
I installed windows xp on my late 2008 macbook a couple months back. My Mac has 4gb RAM and 250gb HDD. I allotted 80gb to Windows XP, as I use it to run 3D Studio Max as well as Adobe CS4. Ever since the Mac side has been running sluggish (not horrible, just not like before) It's restarts are much longer for example, and it seems the fan is working harder, regardless of it being in Mac OS X or Windows XP.
Now, I know its not the Windows partion size, because i originally had a 32gb partition and it just wasnt big enough, but it actually ran slower then. All I'm wondering is:
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I downloaded Fan control and on average the left fan says 1600rpm and the right fan says - 1prm(why is hte right so low?)
-is there anything i can do to optimize my mac to perform at its best?
-will bootcamp 3.0 (coming with snow leopard) be able to run 64bit windows vista/7?
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Depending on when you cancel MA, it is probable that whatever it did up to that point will be lost. 36 hours is unreasonable.
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Hi walking Shoe,
this is the update for Boot Camp 3.1 32-bit: [http://support.apple.com/kb/DL996]
Its around 380MB.
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