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I have installed Windows 7 Home Premium x32 on my MacBook Pro 15" with Intel i5. I also updated the Bootcamp to 3.2. I had a couple of blank screen startups that other people are having, but I got past those. The native resolution is 1440x900, but the Windows video driver (a generic PnP driver) only allows a max resolution of 1280x800. This driver functions, but the fonts are not rendered cleanly and videos play poorly.
It seems to me that the generic video driver's inability to handle the native resolution is probably what is causing the blank startup screens as well as the slow rendering. Why isn't Apple providing video drivers for their hardware? The generic Windows drivers aren't working to very many people's satisfaction. Anyone have better video drivers?

I had the same issue and ended up going to Nvidia and downloading the 330 drivers. Works great now.

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