[AlbanianGenome]

So I have used my macbook pro 2.4ghz with boot camp extensively now windows xp home. I am going to list the issues I have seen so far, and I would love other users to list others that they might have run into so that we might build a list for apple, in the hope that they will address these issues in the next release of boot camp. The issues I have seen so far are the illumination of the keypad. When booting into windows xp home, it appears that you cannot turn off the keypad lights when in windows, the keys will work to turn the lights up and down, but not all the way off. The second thing is that the time will not be accurate when switching back and forth between Mac OS X and Windows XP Home. Even though I have it set to automatically update via a server, sometimes it does not update correctly. Has anyone else experienced this? What other issues have you guys seen using bootcamp off and on? I would love to hear anything regarding this issue. Look forward to seeing what may generate from this post.

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Originally Posted by AlbanianGenome

So I have used my macbook pro 2.4ghz with boot camp extensively now windows xp home. I am going to list the issues I have seen so far, and I would love other users to list others that they might have run into so that we might build a list for apple, in the hope that they will address these issues in the next release of boot camp.

Good idea. I'll sort of spread this out so each issue is more easily identified.

Originally Posted by AlbanianGenome

The issues I have seen so far are the illumination of the keypad. When booting into windows xp home, it appears that you cannot turn off the keypad lights when in windows, the keys will work to turn the lights up and down, but not all the way off.

Are you sure you have the driver installed? Windows doesn't always let you know if a driver is successfully installed, though this sounds like an issue of a poor installation rather than a completely failed one. On the other hand, I haven't paid any attention to this with my 1G MBP, so I can't say whether it's a problem for me as well.

Originally Posted by AlbanianGenome

The second thing is that the time will not be accurate when switching back and forth between Mac OS X and Windows XP Home. Even though I have it set to automatically update via a server, sometimes it does not update correctly. Has anyone else experienced this?

The time thing is something Apple has worked on for a while without success. It's because Windows expects the hardware clock to be set to local time, while OS X expects it to be set to universal time (GMT) like Unix, Linux, and just about all other OSs do. So basically, both OS X and Windows are behaving properly, they just don't agree on which time to use. And it looks like virtualizing the hardware clock isn't something that can be done easily, or Apple would have done it; they have indeed heard about this issue MANY times.

Originally Posted by AlbanianGenome

What other issues have you guys seen using bootcamp off and on? I would love to hear anything regarding this issue. Look forward to seeing what may generate from this post.

This is a good start. Let's see what we get from other people.