Recent content by dgurney

What "procedure"? The guy's not doing a procedure. He asked how to add sound effects to his Mac. He's not using a sound-effects program; he clearly said he downloaded some sound files. The Apple article says you need to convert the files to AIFF and put them under /Users/(your user...

Thanks for the info. I don't think I'm having the problem anymore, but it's been a while since I installed. Now it's on to Parallels problems...

The crappy thing is that SP2 will inexplicably report insufficient disk space on the Mac, so right now I'm trying a second attempt with a slipstreamed XP-with-SP2 boot CD. The first attempt failed with a baffling "missing hal.dll" error message. Other people have encountered the missing...

Thanks, but yes, the firmware is totally up to date.

I installed using Boot Camp on a freshly wiped Mac Mini. I got the same crap, error -1603. Installing Windows on this thing has been a major hassle. Blank screens, failure to recognize the keyboard, missing file on the driver disc. So far, this blows.

The problem will persist. There are two firmware updates on the Apple site, the "SMC" one (and the meaning of "SMC" is totally unexplained) and then a larger one. I tried both, and got the same bullshit message from BootCamp Assistant claiming the firmware needed to be updated. But both...