Hi, I am new in this forum , and have been looking at many solutions given, but i haven't found what i need. i hope i am posting in the correct place. I have a MBP 2.2GHZ 15" , intel based. i installed boot camp a few month ago . using windows with no problem, great speed. I then installed Parallels and used it with my Bootcamp partition. everything worked great. until about a month ago, when the update 5160 for parallels came out. since the 5160 update, i cannot turn on windows with bootcamp , but i am able to run it in Parallels with no problems. when i select my windows partition when booting my MBP, i simply get the famous " _ " flashing for a few seconds on the top left of the screen , and then the screen just stay black. and nothing appears. i don't get an error number, nothings happens. i have looked around this forum for quite a while , and tried many solutions given for all sorts of errors. like this on , and many others. i have already reinstalled parallels, didn't nudge. thanks for helping, feel free to ask any question if i missed something ! Ansel
You are not alone! I started a near identical thread 5 days earlier. Our descriptions are the same. And my problem is still not resolved. http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=17104
thanks for the answer, but i have tried all that is said in your topic, nothing helped. i have not tried downgrading the version of parallels as i do not want to reinstall windows xp. the diffence with you and me , is that you see a glimpse of a blue screen and then your computer starts over. I, on the other hand, only see a black screen, and the computer just freezes . i am still trying to fixe this. any help from an admin would be good.
Hello, we're investigating this issue trying to find a solution. I've notified our developers about it. Sorry for giving so much trouble. Best regards, Alicia.
I have ran into a strange situation. I had some time to spare, so i decided to look around for more errors on my windows. i therefor decided to defrag my computer, you never know. i noticed that a few Windows files were fragmented, so i decided to defragmente my computer until no more windows files were fragmented. once that done, i did a check disk with windows. no errors found. anyhow, i decided to start windows with boot camp, you never know. guess what ? now i finally get an error. actually two errors, but they are probably related. when i turn on windows via boot camp, i have the choice in between "windows XP" and "Parallels" ( those are not the exact names) . -when booting with the Parallels version, i get a "File missing or corrupted : windows/system32/hal.dll" -when booting with the Windows xp version, i get a blue screen with this error : "STOP : 0x0000008E ( 0XC0000005, 0x0001272E, 0xF78E63D0, 0x00000000)" i am currently looking into both of those errors, i am also going to uninstall parallels and see what happens.
Hello, as we're all discussing this issue here, let's continue there on order to not duplicate posts Best regards, Alicia.
