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7-Endless
Jul 7th, 2006, 01:12 PM
Just about to kick off my XP install with Boot camp but was wondering how many unknown devices or similar I should expect to have after the install?
milhaus
Jul 7th, 2006, 01:58 PM
Other than the isight? None (install the Apple drivers though). But if you're not going to game, don't bother with bootcamp. Use Parallels.
7-Endless
Jul 7th, 2006, 02:58 PM
Other than the isight? None (install the Apple drivers though). But if you're not going to game, don't bother with bootcamp. Use Parallels.


Just finished the install and have 5 devices missing. Under Human Interface Devices I have one USB Human Interface Device with a yellow exclamation and under Unknown Devices I have 1 PCI Device, 2 Unknown Devices and 1 USB Device.

I'm sure one or more of these is iSight but not sure about the others...

May give Parallels a shot but I did want to occasionally game on this ;)
alexcold
Jul 7th, 2006, 03:56 PM
the missing things are the isight, which is the usb device, and a couple m/b things that are not detected as of yet.
kev*
Jul 8th, 2006, 06:15 PM
Other than the isight? None (install the Apple drivers though). But if you're not going to game, don't bother with bootcamp. Use Parallels.

Running Parallels is much slower than running XP natively with bootcamp. (all apps - not just games)