Hard to play tech support sight unseen, but I might know what this is about.
Aemon Send a noteboard - 08/05/2010 07:07:49 AM
I read tech support forums fairly often (something of a nerd 
), and I remember seeing something about this. Guy tried to install Win7 via bootcamp on a brand new mac, seemed to work fine, showed the windows logo, hung indefinitely on a black screen afterward. Sounds like your problem, yes?
The issue was the vga.sys (read: display) driver not loading/properly installing/something. The post I saw claimed that this problem was fixed in the January 2010 bootcamp upgrade. If I were you, I would go back into your mac, make sure you have the newest version of bootcamp (fully updated), and make sure you have the latest system upgrades from Mac too (however Mac handles that), particularly anything related to graphics card drivers. After that, give the installation another shot from the beginning. If that doesn't work, you should do some serious googling on the vga.sys file not loading, and see if there are any better suggestions out there.
Also: if you do end up having to take it somewhere, do NOT take it to best buy, unless (god forbid) you have a warranty through them and can't afford to go elsewhere. Geek squad is the lowest of the low on the computer nerd foodchain.
), and I remember seeing something about this. Guy tried to install Win7 via bootcamp on a brand new mac, seemed to work fine, showed the windows logo, hung indefinitely on a black screen afterward. Sounds like your problem, yes?The issue was the vga.sys (read: display) driver not loading/properly installing/something. The post I saw claimed that this problem was fixed in the January 2010 bootcamp upgrade. If I were you, I would go back into your mac, make sure you have the newest version of bootcamp (fully updated), and make sure you have the latest system upgrades from Mac too (however Mac handles that), particularly anything related to graphics card drivers. After that, give the installation another shot from the beginning. If that doesn't work, you should do some serious googling on the vga.sys file not loading, and see if there are any better suggestions out there.
Also: if you do end up having to take it somewhere, do NOT take it to best buy, unless (god forbid) you have a warranty through them and can't afford to go elsewhere. Geek squad is the lowest of the low on the computer nerd foodchain.
Need help installing Windows 7
- 08/05/2010 12:02:08 AM
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I did this just a couple days ago on my new mac mini
- 08/05/2010 12:36:02 AM
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Re: I did this just a couple days ago on my new mac mini
- 08/05/2010 12:55:02 AM
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How many hard drive partions are you seeing after you format with bootcamp, but while you are
- 08/05/2010 01:00:28 AM
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Re: How many hard drive partions are you seeing after you format with bootcamp, but while you are
- 08/05/2010 01:04:19 AM
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Re: How many hard drive partions are you seeing after you format with bootcamp, but while you are
- 08/05/2010 01:45:59 AM
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Don't take this personal but just take it in.
- 08/05/2010 05:10:18 AM
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Re: Don't take this personal but just take it in.
- 08/05/2010 07:35:09 AM
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Re: Don't take this personal but just take it in.
- 09/05/2010 02:19:11 AM
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seriously. People, would you stitch your own wounds if you didn't know how?
- 09/05/2010 03:08:58 AM
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Don't blame Microsoft. You're the one trying to put it on a Mac. *NM*
- 08/05/2010 05:08:03 AM
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to be fair, it should be possible if everything is up to date
- 08/05/2010 07:02:49 AM
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That's not the point.
- 09/05/2010 02:22:36 AM
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I agree. He should be pissed at Mac.
- 09/05/2010 03:05:03 AM
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did you get all the boot camp updates?
- 08/05/2010 07:05:27 AM
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Hard to play tech support sight unseen, but I might know what this is about.
- 08/05/2010 07:07:49 AM
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*NM*