Software :: Black Screen Installing Win 7 With Bootcamp
Dec 26, 2009
I am new to Mac and to forums. I am trying to install Win 7 with bootcamp. I have a new MacBook Pro and I have bought an OEM version of Win 7 Ultimate. I downloaded it and burnt it to a DVD. The DVD boots on a windows PC but I have the following when I try installing it with bootcamp 3 which came with the installed OSX 10.6: When clicking the "install windows" button the screen goes grey, the computer restarts and then the screen goes black and stays that way. The Windows installation screen never appears. I have tried many items listed in many forums but with no success. There seems to be many similar issues around but I have been unsuccessful using them.
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Aug 28, 2010
I'm doing this for the nth time now but because it's been so long I've forgotten how long it's supposed to take.
I ran Bootcamp assistant, and installed the windows disc. Next up is a black screen, with a flashing cursor in the top left corner.
Been like that for 15 mins. Has it crashed or is it normal? It's on a brand new MBP so I'd expect it to be faster than when I used to do it on older MBPs
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Nov 17, 2009
I just tried installing ubuntu via bootcamp. I went through the whole installation process then it asked me to restart. Black Screen for 5min. Manually restarted and my system would only start to another black screen that said GRUB, with no other options. I took the hdd out that I installed ubuntu on and I would get the same problem. Did this somehow change my bios/mac equivalent. Finally was able to get into osx by holding down left mouse button on startup (nothing else would work).
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May 27, 2009
Imac has all the updates before I partitioned with bootcamp (52 GB) I inserted a Win 7 Pro 32 bit disc (OEM from newegg). It installed windows and auto rebooted, windows came up and auto booted again. All I got was a black screen, I think it just turned off. I tried powering the machine on and booted to windows, but a message asking if I wanted to boot normally or go into safe mode. Does anyone have an idea why I can't get past this step?
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Dec 11, 2009
Imac has all the updates before I partitioned with bootcamp (52 GB) I inserted a Win 7 Pro 32 bit disc (OEM from newegg). It installed windows and auto rebooted, windows came up and auto booted again. All I got was a black screen, I think it just turned off. I tried powering the machine on and booted to windows, but a message asking if I wanted to boot normally or go into safe mode. Does anyone have an idea why I can't get past this step?
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May 14, 2012
I'm installing mac os x snow leopard onto my new hard drive that I installed into my computer. When I turn on the computer and start it up and tell the computer to boot from the disc I get the apple sign and the swirl at the bottom. Then the screen goes black and all I hear is the super drive working. It never moves past the black screen.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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May 19, 2012
I installed 10.7.4 update and now my screen goes black. It is quiet random at times, but mostly goes black after a few seconds from wakeup. Pressing the space-bar restores the screen, then sometimes it goes black again almost immediately.
Anyone else having the same problem?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Dec 1, 2009
I decided I was going to install XP on a bootcamp partition tonight and everything went fine until I installed the Bootcamp 3 software. After installing the Bootcamp drivers the machine rebooted and I ended up with a black screen in Windows. I did hear the XP welcome music so I figured it was a display driver issue. I rebooted into safe mode and deleted the ATI 4850 driver and restarted. After removing the bootcamp driver everything was normal again other than the fact that I only had the default Windows drivers running.
What am I doing wrong? I installed XP off of an XP disc with SP2 already on it and ran the Bootcamp install off the Snow Leopard disc. Finally, not sure if this matters, I am running one of the new i7 iMacs.
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Mar 29, 2010
I have a Mac Mini (2.55GHz intel duo core) and I trying to install windows xp with sp2 (downloaded from MSDN, burned to boot able disk). I created a 100GB partition with boot camp assistant, and started the installation. When I reboot the Mac Mini, and I select the windows CD icon, the screen goes black, and the Mac Mini just stops reading the disk, and stalls at the blank screen.
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Mar 23, 2012
I have a 2009 27" iMac, running Windows 7 x64 with BootCamp, and I'm having a problem when running Windows for more then 5 minutes.
After running it for about 5 minutes, the fans go CRAZY, the system doesnt get too hot though, the LEFT side of my screen starts flickering brightness, while the RIGHT side starts flickering colors. After a few more minutes of this, my screen goes completely black, I know the computer is still running, because I hear my music and the zombie killing me in Minecraft, but my screen, keyboard, and mouse dont seem to respond. I have double checked all drivers, I have updated BootCamp, and my next step was to reformat the drive, but that is my LAST resort.
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iMac 27" 2009, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Running Win 7 64x on Bootcamp
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Feb 15, 2010
Couple of weeks ago my Mac Pro died. Anyway it turned out that the mother board and graphics card had over heated and failed due to dust from building work. So I've got it back from the repair shop now, the mac side is working fine, no complaints at all but bootcamp isn't so happy. When I first tried to boot into vista after getting the comp back, I restarted, selected the bootcamp icon and then the screen just went black. The light on the monitor went dim like it does when the computer is asleep and that's it. I didn't have anything important on the partition so I just removed it and repartitioned, witch seemed to go fine. But then when I put the vista disk in to install the same thing happens again. Screen goes black the CD spins up really fast but nothing else.
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Apr 1, 2012
I bought a MacBook Pro 17inch i7 in November 2010 and it was working fine under Snow Leopard and Lion since then. Yesterday I installed Bootcamp and it was workng also. Today when starting from Bootcamp to Lion I had a Kernel Panic (had this never before) and the screen turned black. I just have the energy cable connencted to it, the computer starts somehow (noise) but no Startsound and screen keeps black.Then I made a little mistake by inserting a LION installer DVD. Cannot get this out anymore, even when I press the trackpad when starting it. I changed the internal hard drive to be sure that the problem does not come from there. I reset the PRAM. I reset the SMC. No way to get the laptop back to work.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 8 GB RAM, 30 ACD
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Dec 23, 2010
So, whilst it was installing bootcamp 3.1 it blue screens and now when it boots and complains about pci.sys.
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Jul 24, 2009
I tried to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp a couple weeks back, but shortly after it failed, I deleted the Bootcamp partition in Bootcamp Assistant. However, whenever I want to boot my computer, it tries to go into the Windows Installation, but it gets stuck on the flashing underscore on the top left of the black screen. Henceforth, whenever I want to boot into OSX, I have to hold down both ALT keys. is there any way of fixing this so the iMac boots STRAIGHT into OSX (like normally)
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Feb 12, 2008
Well I finally got the drivers off of the MBA install DVD (URL). Just dumped them on to a USB stick. I installed XP Pro again using bootcamp assistant without a hitch. Rebooted into XP, put the USB stick in and ran the setup.exe off of it. XP blue screened when installing Broadcam drivers it appears.
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Feb 1, 2010
iMac 27" i7 with OS X v 10.6.x when I create the bootcamp partition for windows 7 and I install from my original DVD of Windows 7. I format the partition during the install of windows 7 and on the first reboot after windows 7 first part of the install, the screen shows the Windows 7 logo and says continuing installation and then a black screen and then nothing.
I have to hard power off the iMac and then it starts over says the thing about the system didn't shut down properly and gives me the option to start safe mode etc. and does the same thing each time.
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Jan 3, 2011
I keep getting the following error 3 quarters of the way:
STOP: C000021A "Fatal system error. The windows subsystem process terminated un expectedly w/ a status of OX C000005. System shut down. It's a blue screen with white letter.
I'm using Office XP Service Pack 2 with imac OSX Install DVD version 10.6.3.
The steps I'm taking are:
Log onto my mac and use pre installed bootcamp to partition the drive. I'm using 32GB of space. Then I use my xp Prof w/ service pack 2 cd to install xp. At this time everything is working fine except for the missing drives. Then I put the bootcamp cd that came with my imac into the iMac and run bootcamp. It looks like everything is working perfectly. The imac is finding wireless internet and all the drives look like they are working fine until out of no where a blue screen pops up and states what I wrote below. There is nothing else on the screen. I'm using a 27 inch imac that i bought about 5 weeks ago new.
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Feb 3, 2012
Desktop restart shows flickering black/white screen, then black. Could not restart.
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iPad 2, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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May 24, 2012
I came back from work to wake up my iMac. It made the noise but the screen stayed black. I tried restarting by holding the power button- I can hear it start and the chime but still have a black screen. I tried resetting the pram, and unplugging the cord but I still get a black screen. I can hear the chime though; I'm not sure if that means anything. I just had the hard drive replaced in February so I hope it's not that. just wanted to clarify that when I restart, I get the chime but the screen stays black- I don't get to the grey screen. So I'm assuming right now that my display may be shot?
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Mar 27, 2009
I have been trying to install Win xp home edition since this morning. I even got on with Apple Customer Service to no avail. The problem is as follows:
-I have an original Windows XP Home Edition SP2.
-Bootcamp had already been updated to 2.1
When I restart the computer to complete the conversion to SP3, I get an error message saying that the product key has a problem etc.. It should not have a problem, being that it is a certified copy of Microsoft Win XP sp2. I have to over and over again take the program out and reinstall it as instructed, and still get the error message.
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Dec 15, 2009
I'm having the late 2009 Macbook. Trying to find out if bootcamp with XP Black Editions will work.
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May 23, 2008
I'm running tiger and I've found these instructions, will they work?
Back up your OS X partition.
Create new HFS and NTFS partitions with Disk Utility (or use iPartition $$$ to preserve data).
Insert Windows XP SP2 disc
Reboot Mac, holding down Option.
Boot from XP disc to install it on the NTFS partition.
I have a friend who has a leopard dvd, can I get the proper drivers from that (I'm using a mac pro tower).
can I create a new partition just by using disk utility and leave my existing one intact without modifying it?
also... do I have to backup my os X partition?
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Jun 9, 2009
I just downloaded the RC of Windows 7 (64-bit) and am trying to install it on my 2 month old macbook pro. This is my first mac, so i'm still getting used to it. I have created a dvd with the w7 iso image on it, created a 20gb partition using bootcamp, and now at the step of installing w7 on that new partition. The problem i'm running into is when trying to install, it says the partition needs to be formatted as NTFS. After backtracking and not seeing an option to make this new partition in NTFS format, i'm at a dead end. What can I do now?
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Jun 21, 2009
just installed bootcamp,and the drivers from the apple cd,it went smoothly
it was installed on a new 20GB partitionI use Windows XP,and OS X 10.5.7Now,after the windows was installed,i restarted my mac,holded option,and chose the OS Xisk...
there was the apple logo,than a blue screen,and it stayed that way...blue screen was changed by a bluish-gray screen every 25 seconds or so,but that was short,and it got back to the normal blue screen...that went on for some time,and i had to hold the off button for 5 seconds to turn it off...i tried starting os x from safe mode,but it only started windows on safe mode,even though i chose the os x disk...
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Aug 27, 2009
I installed snow leopard, the GM version, and after getting nice and settled I wanted to install windows 7, in bootcamp. So I create the partition, and then thats the end of it. None of the start up buttons will work, I tried holding down the X button while the mac starts up, but nothing will happen. The apple logo doesn't show up either. Right now, I booted off of ubuntu, and I'm on firefox. It seems the buttons don't work and I don't know why. Also, when I put in the windows 7 dvd, it just read:
1.
2.
Choose cd-rom to boot up from: or something like that.
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Sep 3, 2009
I use SL Bootcamp Assistance and installed Windows 7 RTM on my Mac mini, but after installation no Bootcamp in Windows.
My Mac Mini use an Apple mouse but a wireless PC keyboard.
My questions are:
1. Anyway to get the Bootcamp back so I can choose to boot in Mac OS X?
2. With the PC keyboard, how to "option-key" so I can select the boot device while power on?
BTW I purchased my Mac Mini in April 2009 and did a brand new install of SL. I noticed when used Bootcamp Assistance it said my machine cannot support x64, but I followed a post in this forum to "force run" BootCampx64 under /Bootcamp/Drivers/Apple of the SL DVD. Is it the reason why Bootcamp is
gone?
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Oct 18, 2010
Is this possible?
The only copy of windows XP i have is pre SP2. I tried to install this last night via boot camp, but after spending hours installing and loading the drivers from the mac disc, not all were installed. Then I was hardwired to my router to run windows update to get SP2/SP3 I could not for the life of me get the 3 drivers to install.
Ethernet controller, although the ethernet port worked. Bluetooth driver, cannot find the driver on the Mac disc VGA driver, cannot find the driver on the Mac disc
I also don't seem to have a wireless connection or even an option to use my wifi card on my macbook with windows.
The macbook is a 2010 unibody, white.
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Dec 2, 2010
realised that my previous post was in the wrong section, (sorry!) so i decided to re-post it in the correct place.
Ok, so i setup bootcamp and installed windows xp. installed the bootcamp drivers, and things worked fine for a couple of days.... than the bootcamp appeared to get corrupted. fn keys cant work, xp cant detect mac partition (cant access any files in there, though the reverse works), no bootcamp icon in system try. someone mentioned to search for the KbdMgr.exe or bootcamp and start the program, but i cant find both items.
re-installation of bootcamp with the cd doesnt seem to work for me. either the system restarts before installation is completed, or xp crashes during the installation process. EDIT: now all i get is xp crashing before installation is complete
downloaded the bootcamp 2.1 but absolutely nothing happens when i click on the exe file!
there are a bunch of apple drivers shown in the add/remove programs, but they dont seem to be working (tried to remove them all and re-install, but xp crashed halfway and i had to use the cd to repair it). seems to me all that the drivers are 'there' already, but not working.
short of completely starting over from scratch and re-installing the entire windows, is there anything else i can try?
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Nov 22, 2008
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how exactly is that achieved?
anyone tried it, and any benefits of bypassing bootcamp?
and doing it without bootcamp, will rEFIt still work?
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Feb 11, 2009
I just purchased my new Mac 2 days ago, Its a Macbook pro 2.53ghz model. I'm a big gamer so I want to instal Winxp to play games like fallout 3, crysis, cod 5 etc. How much space should I create for my windows partition? If its more than 32Gigs, what is the procedure after?
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