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adamprezence
3rd March 2008, 10:36 AM
hi there can anyone help im running bootcamp 1.2 beta on my macbook pro and i cant get dual screen working i have it running prefectly on the mac osx partition but as soon as i try windows i get nothing. i have tried all the usual settings changing the screen size etc. pls advise
fleuro4ek
3rd March 2008, 03:26 PM
hi there can anyone help im running bootcamp 1.2 beta on my macbook pro and i cant get dual screen working i have it running prefectly on the mac osx partition but as soon as i try windows i get nothing. i have tried all the usual settings changing the screen size etc. pls advise

Why bootcamp? Do you want to run windows by any other ways?
adamprezence
3rd March 2008, 03:41 PM
I'v just always used boot camp... just found that it works and is the most user friendly.
can u reccomend anything else?....:)
I'm not too keen on formatting my computer again, is there any advice you can give me on the dual screen issue? im desperate! :'(
pls advise.
zarmanto
3rd March 2008, 08:02 PM
Why bootcamp? Do you want to run windows by any other ways?

Well, fleuro4ek... unless you know something that I don't, I'm pretty sure that neither Parallel's Desktop nor VMWare Fusion will support multiple monitors in guest operating systems. (At the very least, neither of them mention that on their respective "features" pages.) Thus, the non-BootCamp options for running Windows wouldn't actually solve Adam's problem.

I'm not too keen on formatting my computer again, is there any advice you can give me on the dual screen issue?

I've read on this forum and elsewhere that people have had various issues with the video drivers in the BootCamp beta. Your best bet (short of buying Leopard) is probably to search for the last version of BootCamp that was released, (beta 1.4) burn yourself a new driver CD, and upgrade the drivers in Windows.

However, since Leopard's release, the BootCamp beta is no longer hosted on Apple's server, nor does it appear to be hosted on the MacUpdate.com site, which aarathi had mentioned in a previous post... so I doubt that it's going to be easy to find at this point. So if you can't locate it, or if you do find it and it still doesn't solve your problem, then you may have to bite the bullet and shuck out the $$ for Leopard after all.