jafs00

I'm tired of Mac and bootcamp, I never use the mac OS, cause I primaraly use max+vray+photoshop...the computer keeps crashing constantly because of "unspecified errors" and I have at least 7 blue screens of death daily.

I'm very frustrated and at the point of punching the computer (not going to do it though)

Is there anyway I can be rid of the mac OS and bootcamp and run this box as a a regular windows machine...I've never had a computer crash so regularly and I think Job's reality distortion field would be anulled by anyone who uses this computer.

so, am I right? should I reformat the computer and turn it into a windows box? if so, how do I do it?

please help

AJLynn

I don't think you can do that, because it doesn't have a PC BIOS, it has EFI. However, that would probably not provide the solution to whatever the problem is. Can you give any more information?

jafs00

thanks for answering, but after the bluescreen problem started, it said it was because of incompatible drivers, i then bare boned the computer, only mouse, videocard and keyboard are connected....and after that the crashes continued citing unspecified errors....and to please continue sending information to microsoft.

I run windows update and mac software update almost religiously in hopes that my problems will dissappear. now, I'm thinking that maybe the best thing to do is to do a clean install...but, how do i go about doing this, since the IT guy in the firm happens to be me...

what do you think?

I'm gonna suggest to the big guy we give the mac pro to the receptionist and I get a dell instead.....

AJLynn

How recent a version of Bootcamp's driver disc did you use? Have you tried getting a new video driver off the nVidia or ATI web site?

Did you use the /3GB switch?

Ky Lane

Wow, Ive never had a hiccup in 12 months with my Mac running Vista64.

Have you checked the simm modules have no red LEDs on?

baker1444

I think if you switch to vista 64 bit you will end your frustrations. I don't think boot camp officaly supports xp. I've had vista running on my MAC for the last 3 weeks without any problems.

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Mat@MDI-Digital

Iv had no problems with my mac.


Now...onto bootcamp.

You dont need it! just install vista 64 and into a blank drive in the mac and it will install no problem at all. Infact you could probably use the drive that Macos is on and just wipe it/re partition it from the vista install.

I have 3 macpros and only one of them still has Macos on it.

Although, Im not sure if you can just install XP though, I have a feeling you cant.

jafs00

thanks for your help guys... here's what I think was going on.

I had been using MAcDrive to access one of the HDs, where I kept all my textures and vray proxies. I think that the problem was that the drive was formated whatever format MAC OS uses. Anyhow I just reformatted it to NTFS and voila, no bluescreens of death for 3 weeks.....

now for Matthew's solution, would you be so kind as to give me a step by step instruction on how I go installing vista 64 on one of the hard drives,or, if you're too busy, could you point me out where i could find an online tutorial on doing this without messing the computer up...no IT department in my firm.

thanks a lot

James

Not sure if this is much use to you, but I had similar BSOD issues for a while last year.

Turned out that the problem was down to the fact I was using ZoneAlarm Firewall... something ot do with its relationship with Kaspersky Anti-Virus software (I think... can't quite remember).

Anyhow, I switched to Comodo Firewall Pro & haven't had a blue screen since.

STRAT

agreed. i have 2 separate drives. one with mac os and one with XP64. both installed and used completely individually and independently from the other. never had not 1 problem. i used to use bootcamp, but disabled it because it just got in the way. i just press the ALT key when booting up to decide which os i want to use.

i just installed the 2 separate os's on the 2 separate drives as if i were installing as per standard on a pc

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