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EFI Firmware update..
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: 33-37-22.350N / 111-54-37.920W
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Anyone install the 1.1 update? Any results? pro/con?
Does anyone know if it fixes anything other than just the bootcamp and "other boot" issues?
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Mac Pro 3.0, ATI 5770 1GB VRAM, 10GB, 2xVelociraptor boot RAID, 4.5TB RAID0 storage, 30" & 20" Apple displays.
2 x Macbook Pro's 17" 3.06 4 GB RAM, 256GB Solid State drives
iMac 17" Core Duo 1GB RAM, & 2 iPhones 8GB, and a Nano in a pear tree!
Apple user since 1981
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Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: UK
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I installed it - no problems before or after to be honest, but like to keep up to date. There are some murmurings saying that it fixes resolution issues with installing XP on the x1900 and 23"ACD, also the problem with having to sleep and wake the machine in order to use Parallels.
David
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2006
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I honestly can't tell any changes at all after installing the update. Parallels still tells me to sleep and wake up the computer to enable virtualization support, and Windows XP boots the same as always under BootCamp.
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: San Francisco, CA
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ionic, does your MP have a 23" ACD display and X1900 card though? There was a previous (?)incompatibility between Boot Camp/XP and systems with a 23" ACD and X1900 card that would cause a black screen until Windows loaded.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2006
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There's seems to be a few threads over at apple discussion with people having issues with the updae,i.e., unable to install. I'll let the dust settle a little more before I take the plunge.
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Michael
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Northern California
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Worked for me. At least one person said it fixed the Windows Installer issue with the 23" ACD/X1900. As for the black screen until login when booting Windows, I haven't gone into Windows since installing the update so I dunno.
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Mac OS X 10.5.0, Mac Pro 2.66GHz/2 GB RAM/X1900 XT, 23" ACD
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Worked for me, no noticeable changes.
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Linkinus is king.
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: San Francisco, CA
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I installed XP Pro on my MP last night without problems. One quirk though:
When I press down Option on Startup to change startup disks, the Windows partition is a standard hard drive icon, but the Mac partition is an iPod nano with a stop sign on its screen. There's no problem when I select the Mac partition and load up, but what's with the icon?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Oversoul, mine has the Nvidia 7300, and I should have specified that. When booting Windows XP, the screen remains completely blank except for a second where the Windows XP startup screen flashes on, followed by a second where a garbled version of the Apple boot drive selection screen flashes up, then more blank until the Windows desktop appears. The Windows startup has never been as smooth looking as it should, and I thought this maybe fixed that (extremely minor) issue. It would be nice the firmware actually had fixed the Intel virtualization error when starting Parallels.
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: San Francisco, CA
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About the startup disk icon issue: nevermind. It was merely a custom icon problem easily fixed in Finder.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
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I installed it the day it was released, I haven't experienced any problems.
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2.66Ghz Mac Pro 2GM Ram 160Gig HD Ati X1900XT, 24" Dell 2407WFP
13.3" Mac Book Core Duo 2GIG Ram 80Gig HD
12" PowerBook 1.5Ghz 1.25GB Ram 60Gig HD
12" iBook 600Mhz (Late 2001) 640MB Ram 30Gig HD
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