Video Guide: Installing WinXP on Intel Mac

After a few days of wallowing around in the forums, I've finally been able to get Windows XP installed on my 20" Intel iMac, and now I'm on the great driver hunt enable some of the hardware in this computer. The big gaping hole in drivers right now is the lack of video acceleration in hardware which significantly affects performance on this machine. Using the software rendering actually gives quite usable performance, but I won't be playing any 3D or OpenGL games on this iMac until there are drivers that let the machine use the video card's hardware acceleration. In the meantime, my 20" Intel iMac is serving nicely as the only "PC" on my desk.

The biggest hurdle to getting WinXP to install on this box was indeed the "F7, F4" trick that some have talked about in the onmac.net forums and in my post from yesterday. There's something about the screen resolution on the 20" iMac that causes the install to pause (it gets stuck at 0% copying files), but if you use the F7 key to change the installer's video options, set them to 640 x 480, and then use F4 to return to the installer, then the WinXP
installer works fine. Remember that the xom.efi file for the 20" iMac
is different than the original posted.

Had I been a bit faster in getting WinXP working on this, I would've video documented it, but today Uneasy Silence has released their video how-to on installing WinXP on an Intel Mac. It's quite well-done, and has some great tips.