There are even some new issues introduced by Snow Leopard which I deal with at the end. Note: I wrote this guide using my MacBook Pro which I got in Summer 2007. Some steps may not be required for your Mac. By deduction, I have already determined that some people are able to boot straight from the DVD. Ok, here we go: Follow the instructions to build a compatible iso file. So: Put your Snow Leopard disk in, if you have one. And follow the instructions below if you see that message. Or finally, you can download the individual driver files from the above package which should save some time waiting for Rapid Share. Oh, and to get sound working you can just run the RealTekSetup. Whichever method you choose: you should update to the latest version 3. You have to install a previous version before that though. Snow Leopard edit: Now that Snow Leopard is out, all the disks have x64 drivers on them. So, if you can, use that. However, if you have an oldish Mac like mine, you may see the following message Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model After installing the drivers from the disk, you should update to Boot Camp version 3. Just open up command prompt as an administrator in the start menu type cmd, right click on it and select Run as Administrator, click yes on the UAC prompt. I remember having score of not less than 5 on Vista x64 SP1 I did something a bit special — I had x64 Boot camp installer that installs just the boot camp program without drivers , and then installed the 2. I also remember I installed chipset drivers from Intel in Vista x64, but in Win 7 it complained about not being tested for this OS, and refused to install. You can follow the instructions. I recorded this using the new problem recorder in windows 7; it outputs a funny xml file that may not show properly in anything other than IE8, but it worked ok for me in Opera, not firefox. Anywho, there is a version without pictures that may work better. Not sure what kind of real world difference not having write caching enabled has on things, but 7 obviously gets better transfer rates this way. Did you complete step 3 of that guide and download oscdimg into the folder he suggests? Go back and read the instructions properly. I Finnaly got it to work and I have 7 X64 running on my mac pro as we speak! I was actually following the steps correctly, the only thing I did differently this time is I ran the oscdimg. I got everything running except the wifi. It seems to show a live connection available but refuses to get online. I installed all the drives from my leopard 10. I tried resetting my router several times but still no luck. I have also tried connecting directly with an ethernet cable but that doesnt get detected at all. Do you have any idea what I should try next? I know theres a newer build of Win 7 7068 and I dont know what bugs have been fixed with that release. Wait for the RC is my advice. Does it work now that you have connected to the internet? Has it updated the drivers now? I connected to Windows update but it didnt seem to detect any new updates except for Silverlight I would have expected there to be at least a few new updates. But like I say its all running sweet now. As for battery life…I havent used the PC partition much with battery and generaly Im using the OSX partition with the faster graphics card enabled but with the integrated gfx I can get more over 6 hours depending what Im doing. I tried running the MSI from within the GUI, and got an error that it needed to be run via the installer. Let me know as soon as you can. I can scroll using the touchpad, adjust the screen brightness, volume….. The wizard will set it up so that the setup will run normally. I just tried this just now and it seems to have installed everything you need. Win 7 runs fine but i can start the OS X disk in Win 7. I alredy tried to run the bootCamp64. The thing that happend was that I got a notification that this program has a known copatibility issue. And after that a window came up with a unexpected error, code 2229. Am I doing something wrong? The links to the drivers alone was a real find. However, after the installer loads, and things look windows-esque, I am immediately presented with a prompt telling me that the driver for my cd-rom drive is missing, and I am asked to locate it. I tried moving the Bootcamp 2. Has anyone else encountered this problem? This makes me think that there is something wrong with your installation DVD and perhaps some files are missing from it? Perhaps you could try making it again. The links to the four driver files no longer work, but I was able to get the single file that contains all of the drivers. Install process went smoothly now. This is my second time installing Windows 7 64 bit on my 2006 Mac Pro. I was previously using it for 2 weeks, but today I got a black screen with a blinking white line when trying to boot into Windows. Any idea if this will resolve the problem? The first problem encountered was that when I rebooted back into OS X, the system seems to hang. Only way out of it is to do a hard boot holding down the power button to shut it off. When it reboots, my video is corrupted. I have two choices to get out of it is by entering the target disk mode and doing another hard boot. The second is to reboot into windows and do a soft reboot. The second problem I ran into was when I upgraded to BootCamp 3. I had to go into target disk mode, soft boot, hold the option key to select the mac partition to boot, delete the windows partition via boot camp, and then reboot. Everything is fine now after that. I had my logic board replaced due to the no video issue in November. Perhaps you should take it into an Apple store and get it checked out? OS X boots up like normal and everything seems fine until my system hangs. I go and do a hard reboot and the corrupted video appears. After a few reboots, the video returns to normal and everything seems fine, until the next hang. I going to try to do a clean install of Snow Leopard today and play around with it. If it exhibits the same behavior then I guess I have that issue mentioned in the link you gave me. I have the Best Buy Accidental Coverage and I think the repair of the video will justify a replacement. Thanks for the help. I would just like to add my experience with a 4. I bought a new hard drive and W7 Pro 64bit OEM disc. I was able to do a fresh install of Snow Leopard from that 10 dollar disc to upgrade older Leopard machines. I then fully updated OSX and ran Boot Camp Assistant. Did an equal divide partition and put in my OEM disc and it rebooted straight into W7 installed just fine. I had to format the boot camp partition to NTFS, no biggie though. It rebooted a few times and a lot of drivers were already working inside W7 desktop screen. Popped in the Snow Leopard disc and it went ahead and installed Boot camp 3. Never had an issue and everything works and superb ratings in the performance checker. Any help is appreciated. Thank You very much for your help thus far. Not sure if anyone has experienced this problem but here it is; my firewire drive mounts normally when I boot into windows then all of a sudden it is gone. I go to disk utility and it gives me error code 10 sometimes or error code 43, something about the driver, I have unistalled and reinstalled the driver to no avail. Bryan Hey Josh, This article really helped me out on my macbook pro. I installed Windows 7 x64 Ultimate without boot camp and was missing some drivers. I downloaded the drivers you had a link to and voila! It took care of the problem. My macbook is running great. The only other issue I have with it is the power saving feature. My mac will not startup the screen saver or go to sleep mode. Thanks for making this available. Hi, I have this problem which I could not figure out. I followed this instructions and made it to Win 7 x64 the first time.. But all i can see is a blinking cursor after booting from the Win7 x64 iso that is created via the instructions. I even tried using iPartition to make my FAT partition visible to windows. The BEST way to setup an appropriate partition schema for Windows is via Boot Camp. It partitions the drive and sets up the boot loader so you can use the OS you want or need. I find that making changes to the partition schema after Boot Camp has done its job is a no-no. You tend to bump into problems like the one you mention. In regards to the Windows Experience Index Score, I believe it may also be correlated to the amount of hard drive you have partitioned to run Windows on your Mac. I have my 2011 2. Typing this out just made me realize this, haha. Hi Josh Really appreciate your guide. I followed the procedure and everything went smooth till I get the message about corrupted files and a reference to an code 0X80070570. I googled the error code and found out that is quite a common problem. The installation keep stopping and message popping at 48% when expanding. I wonder, what might be the reason of both Apple and Microsoft for making people to look on such backways in installing an audio driver! Nevertheless, thanks a lot — you saved a lot of my time!
