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8 Replies Last post: Mar 28, 2008 5:08 PM by jimmydtx  

NVidia Quadro 4500 FX >> No Boot posted: Feb 12, 2008 6:06 PM

Click to view jimmydtx's profile Novice 6 posts since
Sep 14, 2007
I recently swapped an ATI X1900XT for the NVidia Quadro FX 4500. Everything was working fine for a few days but now WinXP hangs at startup when accessed through Fusion. If I boot into Windows directly through BootCamp, the system is fine - Windows recognizes the Quadro and gives me all the standard resolutions.

On the flip side, when I originally booted into WinXP via Fusion, I had video but none of the higher resolutions. Now, all I get is the Windows splash and then a solid black screen.

Indications are that the Windows environment is not booting at all. If I try SafeBoot, I see the log which promptly stops at a line ending with /agp440. The guest OS screen immediately goes to blue with "fatal error" and some hex numbers displayed. Is Windows looking for an AGP video slot?? Why would this work for a while and then 'die?' How do I get Windows to recognize the VMWare video card as a (virtual??) NVidia Quadro FX 4500?

I feel like I'm so close but I'm pulling my hair out on this one! Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,

jimmydtx

MacProQX(4x2.66GHz) with Leopard 10.5.2 and VMWare Fusion 1.1.1 on a 500GB HDD. The Windows environment is XP SP2 on a dedicated 160GB HDD BootCamp partition.

Re: NVidia Quadro 4500 FX >> No Boot

1. Feb 13, 2008 8:57 AM in response to: jimmydtx
Click to view MandarMS's profile Master VMware Employees 731 posts since
Nov 12, 2007

{font:'Courier New'}Try deleting the
Boot camp metadata and recreate the Boot camp virtual machine
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{font:'Courier New'}Users/User
Name/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/ there is a folder called
"Virtual Machines" with two folders in that: Boot Camp and
Helper. The contents of "Boot Camp" has a folder called
%2fdev%2fdisk... this is the folder you would delete with the Boot Camp
partition metadata files.
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{font:'Courier New'}once you delete the
boot camp metadata restart your Mac system and try running the Boot camp
Virtual machine from VMware Fusion Library
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Re: NVidia Quadro 4500 FX >> No Boot

3. Mar 5, 2008 5:26 AM in response to: jimmydtx
Click to view MandarMS's profile Master VMware Employees 731 posts since
Nov 12, 2007

please refer the following thread

http://communities.vmware.com/message/851481#851481

Re: NVidia Quadro 4500 FX >> No Boot

6. Mar 7, 2008 3:44 PM in response to: jimmydtx
Click to view jim.gill's profile Hot Shot VMware Employees 245 posts since
Jan 6, 2005

Fusion doesn't care about the video card you have, and neither should the Boot Camp partition, when run in a VM. All virtual machines will be configured to use the virtual "VMware SVGA" driver.

Your problem is a new one to me, and I'm forwarding it on internally. Perhaps it's a Tools issue. One thing I'd try is booting into Boot Camp and checking the event log for anything interesting. You might also try renaming the folder \Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools so that Tools can't load; this will likely force you to SVGA when you run it as a virtual machine (rename it, don't delete it, in case you have to restore this folder).

It's possible that updating to the NVidia drivers under Boot Camp "overwrote" the video settings that Fusion uses. In that case, a workaround might be taking Boot Camp down to the most vanilla, Microsoft-provided SVGA driver you can, taking the VM into Fusion and reinstalling Tools, then reinstalling the NVidia drivers after once more into Boot Camp.

As a last resort you could reinstall Windows in the Boot Camp partition, but let's not start with anything so drastic.

Is your card supported by Apple's Boot Camp drivers, do you know?


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