My experience with Mac Pro Two 3.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon

For the seach engines.

Specs:
Mac Pro
Two 3.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
5GB RAM (Riser A- 512MB ea. || Riser B- 2GB ea.)
1 500 GB drive (root boot)
1 250 GB drive (parallels installed on, also used for extra storage)
30" Apple Display
23" Apple Display
4- 7300 video boards installed

1- Legal License of Parallels



Had to use build 1896.2 (other builds wouldn't work)

I had a difficult time getting this to work. VT errors, Memory errors, install boot errors and so on. But here's what worked in the end.

Disable Intel VT-x support
Acceleration set to 'Normal'
Set session memory to 680MB
Set application memory to 1628 (from preference options)
Set Disk Cache to Mac OSX
Could not disable CD drive (windows won't boot)


Once i applied all of these setting; Parallels was working without any issues.


Once parallels tools were install to xp-pro software. I could run my session on either the 30" or 23" monitor without issue. The screen looked just perfect; no stretching or fuzziness. i was really surprised about that, especially on the 30" display, i thought for sure it wouldn't work yet; but it did.


--Paul

 

How can you have 1-1GB and 2-2GB sticks? The Mac Pro's memory must be installed in pairs, using dual-channel RAM.Are you sure it isn't 2-512MB and 2-2GB? If it really is only a single 1GB stick, that might cause your system all sorts of problems.

 

You actually can install non-matched sticks of RAM into a dual channel RAM system, however then the system will operate in single channel mode.

Meaning it will work, but it will go slower. Depending on how they did the memory bus, it may force all the memory in the system into single channel mode.