Has anyone got a new Penryn MBP with Bootcamp XP installed.

[rp2000]

Hi,

Me and my mate have both bought one of these. I am having trouble paying videos in XP after coming out of Hibernate. I though some sort of install issue. My mate bought same model last week and installed XP and had IDENTICAL issues. Cannot find mention of this on other forums so can only assume it is a recentish problem with the newest models.

We are both IT literate and have installed XP many many times, so we think this is an Apple/BootCamp/MBP etc issue.

Basically video overlay goes funky after a hibernate and won't play videos (regardless of codec ffdshow, VLC etc) and after a clean boot it is fine. Can explain more and do tests if you have similar setup to me.

At present I have stopped hibernating but I want to fix this problem, not sidestep it (no "why use hibernate", "why use bootcamp", "why not parallels/vmware" etc please.


rp2000

 

[electric ant]

Are you using Media Player Classic?
im assuming youve installed the windows drviers from the leopard cd.
you could also try standby mode (hold shift down and hibernate changes to stanbdy on the shutdown menu)

 

[rp2000]

Are you using Media Player Classic?
im assuming youve installed the windows drviers from the leopard cd.
you could also try standby mode (hold shift down and hibernate changes to stanbdy on the shutdown menu)

makes no difference which media player I use (VLC or ffdshow based like media player classic).

Not bothered about trying standby, I want to know why it doesn't not work when coming out of hibernate. I think It has something do with the graphics card/drivers as it affects all video playback. I have installed everything correctly and standby is not relevant as that mode uses battery power, Hibernate does not. I don't want to work around the issue, rather identify it and solve it.

I appreciate your assistance, but unless you are running the same setup as me, there is unlikely to be anything you can suggest I try which is not generic. I am more interested in comparing with someone with the same software/hardware.


rp2000

 

[MagicBoy]

Sounds like an nVidia driver issue. Any alternate drivers you can try? ATI offer a more up-to date Boot Camp driver specifically for Apple machines like my original MBP.

There's also been discussion of video corruption with Penryn machines in OS X. Unlikely but possibly related.

 

[rp2000]

Sounds like an nVidia driver issue. Any alternate drivers you can try? ATI offer a more up-to date Boot Camp driver specifically for Apple machines like my original MBP.

There's also been discussion of video corruption with Penryn machines in OS X. Unlikely but possibly related.

I don't get the same issues in Mac OS X.

I did think it could be the driver in windows. I have the one off the Leopard DVD whih to my knowledge is the only one Apple have available. Nvidia only offer drivers for desktops on their site. I know some "groups" custom rewrite the drivers to work on any laptops so you don't need to wait for vendor updates.

24/01/2008
6.14.11.6763

Is my current driver. I found some software today that claims to backup the xp bootcamp partition (winclone) so could backup and try new driver and restore if it does not work.


rp2000

 

[electric ant]

Im running bootcamp on the SR MBP with the custom drivers here
using the method here

i appreciate its not exactly the same setup but the videocard is essentially the same so updating the drivers should be alright.

edit: after testing in winxp bootcamp, videos playback normally after standby, but if hibernated, videos dont playback with picture, but sound is there.
Since hibernate used up 3gb of hard disk space I disabled it.

 

[rp2000]

Im running bootcamp on the SR MBP with the custom drivers here
using the method here

i appreciate its not exactly the same setup but the videocard is essentially the same so updating the drivers should be alright.

edit: after testing in winxp bootcamp, videos playback normally after standby, but if hibernated, videos dont playback with picture, but sound is there.
Since hibernate used up 3gb of hard disk space I disabled it.

Hi Mate,

Thanks very much for doing the tests, I have seen that site referenced to for drivers etc so will have a look. Interesting to see hat you have a similar issue with slightly different hardware. Seeing as you have the same graphics card (I assume). Shame those drivers don't fix the problem but I will have a look anyway. Will also try with standby mode.

Once again thanks a lot for the tests!!


rp2000

 

[electric ant]

Yeah I have the geforce 8600M GT 128mb.

 

[Doug]

Hey dude, has the Boot Camp update this week made any difference for you?

I got my MBP a few days ago and, while I've had no problems with Vista, I'll try and get my hands on an XP disk to give it a whirl.

 

[rp2000]

Hey dude, has the Boot Camp update this week made any difference for you?

I got my MBP a few days ago and, while I've had no problems with Vista, I'll try and get my hands on an XP disk to give it a whirl.

Just downloading this now in Windows via Apple Software Update. Don;t hold much hope as from what I read the update does not change the video drivers, which is clearly where the problems lie.

TBH Windows XP under bootcamp is not stable. My 5 year old machine Native Windows laptop is more stable. Random lockups are not unknown and also the wifi is rubbish.

Might put Vista on and hope Apple have provided better drivers for that, when I get time.


rp2000

Edit: Ran update, apart from it resetting previously hidden system tray icons, resetting my desktop and now the bluetooth icon in systray not hiding, no discernable difference.