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I just returned home from college to find my new Mac Pro, including 2GB
RAM and an ATI X1900 XT. The monitor I'm using is a ViewSonic VA1912wb
(19" widescreen). We have no other monitors in our house that have DVI
ports.
I am using Boot Camp 1.2 (just downloaded today). All my software is
upgraded, and my firmware is upgraded (in the System Profiler, the Boot
ROM version matches the one listed on the Apple site, and it came that way).
I'm having the EXACT same problem as Eli. After partitioning my drive
and inserting the Windows XP disc (I've also tried it with Vista), I hit
Start Installation. The computer restarts, I see the gray screen, then
it turns black, my monitor comes up saying "No Signal (Digital)", and
then goes into Standby mode. If I turn it off and on again, I see the
same No Signal message before it goes back into Standby. I've moved the
DVI connection between the left and right ports on the Mac Pro multiple
times, and I've even tried different keyboard/mouse combos. Nothing.
Please let me know if any fixes are posted. Being able to use Boot Camp was key in my decision to buy a Mac
Pro, and if I can't get it to work, I don't know what I'm going to do.
(I asked if he had a CRT (VGA) monitor to try with the X1900 card using
a DVI/VGA adapter - as the DVI-I ports have analog video pins also. This
was a previous workaround for this problem-Mike)
Yep, I just recently tried it with a VGA monitor from downstairs, and it
worked fine. Now that it's installed, I can use XP with my monitor
(though, like many people on your site, I don't see the splash screen).
-Jake
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I've added this tip to the FAQ's intel-CPU Mac section also. I had previously written an ATI (Mac) contact about this when it first came up months ago (in the news page and Boot Camp Feedback/Tips/Docs page), but it's still an issue even in the latest shipping hardware apparently. (I searched apple's bootcamp/support section and found nothing new on this - surely they must know about it. Granted their official policy is no support for bootcamp/Windows but you'd think they'd at least have a note in some of their BootCamp docs about this by now.)