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    Booting up Intel mac mini on windows 7

    I would approximating to install Windows 7 in an Intel Mac mini as the most important/merely operating system (without boot-camp). I feel affection for my Macintosh and Macintosh hardware in general, additional than I necessitate to make available a diminutive sized Windows 7 system for a extremely non-technical person, and would approximating to utilize Macintosh hardware if probable. Has anybody endeavor this, and if so, what occurred. I have encompassed an Intel Mac Mini associated via a DVI-to-HDMI cable to the Denon AVR 2310CI. The Denon is associated to a Sony HDTV via HDMI. When I log into Mac OS X I am capable to observe the desktop presently extremely well. Additional than when I log in to the Windows 7 Boot Camp OS, I merely observe the initial black screen by means of "Starting Windows" additional than as almost immediately as the desktop is supposed to come into view, the screen goes blank. I associated the mini unswervingly to the TV and the entire was ok. Something's up by means of Windows 7 (and previous, I had Vista and had the similar issue) associated to Denon. Several clues regarding what I be able to do to make the display come into view.

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    Re: Booting up Intel mac mini on windows 7

    You would encompass a diminutive difficulty convincing me by means of the intention of the Apple Mac Mine vs P55/H55, additional than yes and there are most of people doing so. You tranquil necessitate logicboard drivers commencing Apple, which do not get updated a large amount if ever. The actuality you are asking leads me to imagine they be supposed to immediately purchase a system. You be supposed to not have several predicament. The entire you encompass to do is install windows 7, wipe the entire the separation and set up a innovative one for presently windows, then subsequent to install, utilize the OS X disk by means of the intention of came by means of your mini to install the drivers, then bring up to date them utilize apple's updater.

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    Re: Booting up Intel mac mini on windows 7

    You be able to install Windows 7 merely on your Mac Mini if you desire additional than you determine to Boot Camp to do it. The Boot Camp generates a special CD by means of the entire the drivers for components in Mac Mini and to in addition facilitate compatibility beneath Windows 7. The most excellent method to accomplish this is to boot into OS X. Here you have to start the Boot Camp wizard (I consider this is situated beneath Applications > Utilities), go subsequent to the on screen instructions, you might encompass resize the separation temporarily previous to the driver CD is generated (you be able to undo this subsequent to it).

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    Re: Booting up Intel mac mini on windows 7

    The operating system inaugurates no tribulations, even though I had a bit of predicament getting the sound to run. Additional than subsequent to endeavoring a couple of things, I was capable to utilize the driver on a Leopard DVD (the Boot Camp program itself would not run, additional than was capable to utilize Windows' File Explorer to get the driver itself commencing the disk.) I at present encompass three Windows 7 apparatus up and working with a Lenovo X300, an older Dell XPS M1210 and, the Mac Mini. That's in adding together to my corporate authorized IBM ThinkPad working with Windows XP.

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    Re: Booting up Intel mac mini on windows 7

    By method of comparison, the older Dell XPS in addition scores a 2.0, the entire in excess of again based on the hard drive. The Lenovo X300 achieve a 3.1, evaluate down not by its hard drive (it utilized a fast solid-state drive as an alternative) additional than by its graphics presentation. I plan to maintain endeavoring out the dissimilar apparatus, as well as installing dissimilar combinations of software to observe how things run in various setups. At present, I like Windows 7. I imagine it has the probable to be the whole thing Vista be supposed to have been. Vista had an enormous built-in graphics engine, additional than did not actually harness that engine to create working simpler.

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    Re: Booting up Intel mac mini on windows 7

    I have encompassed an Intel Mac Mini associated via a DVI-to-HDMI cable to the Denon AVR 2310CI. The Denon is associated to a Sony HDTV via HDMI. When I log into Mac OS X I am capable to observe the desktop immediately extremely well. Additional than when I log in to the Windows 7 Boot Camp OS, I merely observe the initial black display by means of "Starting Windows" additional than as almost immediately as the desktop is sustained or maintained to come into view, the display goes blank. The TV behaves as if there was no input complete to it. I associated the mini unswervingly to the TV and the entire was ok.

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