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On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both |
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> OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not |
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> mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will. |
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> I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250 |
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You are right that XP should work - or you can install it on a virtual |
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machine. I am not sure what advantages you get from running vmware from a |
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partition (unless of course you also want to dual boot). |
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My experience with video card is: stick with Nvidia as long as AMD/ATI hasn't |
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cured the driver problems - however this is a Linux advice! |
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You are correct about the psu and probably right about the card. It may be a |
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card vs board problem (I had a motherboard that just would not stand a Nvidia |
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6600GT, however it locked, it did not shutdown). |
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I'm afraid I can't help more as far as Windows is concerned: the latest |
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version I booted from HD was 3.1 and the latest I run in vmware is 2000. |
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Good luck, |
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Thierry |
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