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Q: bootcamp 6 drivers for MBP mid-late 2011?

I upgraded to windows 10 a few weeks ago and installed the latest windows 8.1 drivers and everything seems to be running quite smoothly. Was able to do a workaround install for my amd radeon hd6700M graphics card driver to install the latest driver (15.20). My question is with the recent bootcamp update for mac models only after 2012 is there any way to get a manual download of the drivers for older models? or will they be available for older models soon? I see no reason for them not to, plenty of 2010-2011 macbook pro models are very capable of running windows 10. Has anyone found a work around for this? or know of an ETA that apple might provide the drivers for the olders models? I must also add I have updated my yosemite to the latest 10.10.5 and that my bootcamp assistant app (in osx) doesnt work because I tried to alter the info file and it fails to open (so i installed windows 8 manually by creating me own bootcamp partition and manually installing the drivers). Any help would be nice....

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), windows 10 installed via bootcamp

Posted on Aug 14, 2015 2:29 AM

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  • by Loner T,Helpful

    Loner T Loner T Aug 14, 2015 2:57 AM in response to legauch3
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    Aug 14, 2015 2:57 AM in response to legauch3

    Officially, the W10-supported Macs are listed in Use Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp - Apple Support . Any other Mac requires the users to 'build' their own concoction of drivers specific to their hardware. Apple is now pushing BCA (or Apple Software Update on the Windows side) as the official vehicle to get drivers.

     

    For example, System requirements to install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support, no longer has the manual download links for BC drivers.

     

    legauch3 wrote:

     

    I must also add I have updated my yosemite to the latest 10.10.5 and that my bootcamp assistant app (in osx) doesnt work because I tried to alter the info file and it fails to open (so i installed windows 8 manually by creating me own bootcamp partition and manually installing the drivers). Any help would be nice....

    Your codesign command needs to include --deep qualifier. Please also see Bootcamp keeps crashing .

  • by legauch3,

    legauch3 legauch3 Aug 14, 2015 3:01 AM in response to Loner T
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    Aug 14, 2015 3:01 AM in response to Loner T

    So your basically saying to stay put with my 'concoction' of drivers (which seems to be fine btw so im not complaining) and just wait to see if windows brings out an update for us older mac users or if Apple might decide to?

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    Loner T Loner T Aug 14, 2015 3:09 AM in response to legauch3
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    Aug 14, 2015 3:09 AM in response to legauch3

    Do not expect Apple to add older models to the W10 qualification list. This is effectively Apple's way of saying go buy a new Mac if you want a certified W10 solution. Planned obsolescence and all that is now an inherent part of keeping revenue streams at corporations alive. I keep my old Macs up and running on the last supported versions.

  • by legauch3,

    legauch3 legauch3 Aug 14, 2015 3:16 AM in response to Loner T
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    Aug 14, 2015 3:16 AM in response to Loner T

    Thankyou for your help, one more question. My graphics card is the amd readeon hd6700m. And the latest driver states this it is not intended for Bootcamp users. I was able to install it anyway by manually selecting it in driver manual and it seemed to install ok. Does this driver actually work when installed this way? Everything points towards it being fine... just wondered if u knew anything on the topic....

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    Loner T Loner T Aug 14, 2015 3:19 AM in response to legauch3
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    Aug 14, 2015 3:19 AM in response to legauch3

    Yes, the driver should work. What is the current version of the driver?

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    legauch3 legauch3 Aug 14, 2015 3:25 AM in response to legauch3
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    Aug 14, 2015 3:25 AM in response to legauch3

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Aug 14, 2015 5:24 AM in response to legauch3
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    Aug 14, 2015 5:24 AM in response to legauch3

    If you have any issues with this driver, please post back.

  • by rmb562,

    rmb562 rmb562 Aug 19, 2015 12:00 PM in response to legauch3
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    Aug 19, 2015 12:00 PM in response to legauch3

    Hello,

     

    I've been trying to get Win10 to load correctly on my MBP (Late 2011) and every single time I get Windows installed my sound card doesn't work.
    I just get "no audio device is detected" and there's a driver under "system" drivers with an yellow exclamation point stating "cannot be started"..

    Sound always works fine on OSX side.

     

      Model Name: MacBook Pro

      Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,1

      Processor Name: Intel Core i7

      Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz

      Number of Processors: 1

      Total Number of Cores: 2

      L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

      L3 Cache: 4 MB

      Memory: 4 GB

      Boot ROM Version: MBP81.0047.B2A

     


    What Boot Camp Package do you install for your Mac?

     

    THANK YOU

     

    I've also been wondering if this is my problem.

  • by vinnycolletti,

    vinnycolletti vinnycolletti Aug 22, 2015 5:36 AM in response to Loner T
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    Aug 22, 2015 5:36 AM in response to Loner T

    I tried that driver in Win 8.1 and got a black screen while installing. Actually I have had no luck getting beyond the default MS video driver with my late 2011 Macbook Pro 17" I will probably end up having to reinstall Win as BCD (device not attached to system nightmare) problems are preventing any method of booting into Safe Mode Since the OSX side of things seems OK even with Photoshop I'm not sure this is from the Radeon HD 6750M going belly up

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Aug 22, 2015 8:07 AM in response to vinnycolletti
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    Aug 22, 2015 8:07 AM in response to vinnycolletti

    Quite a few versions of Windows do not have the Radeon 6xxxM drivers. Please see Boot Camp: iMac displays a black screen during installation of Windows 7 - Apple Support . This is also true across many non-iMac macs.

  • by vinnycolletti,

    vinnycolletti vinnycolletti Aug 22, 2015 10:26 AM in response to Loner T
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    Aug 22, 2015 10:26 AM in response to Loner T

    Thanks but I'm having the opposite problem. Generic drivers for Win 8, 8.1, and 10 work fine. Loading any AMD Catalyst driver for the Radeon either gets black flagged for a problem in Windows or worse, results in a black screen and I have to try to uninstall the driver I would just stay with the MS driver but I need the additional video output using the Thunderbolt port. The generic driver only supports 1 display it seems.

  • by arash_abd,

    arash_abd arash_abd Oct 18, 2015 1:53 PM in response to rmb562
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    Oct 18, 2015 1:53 PM in response to rmb562

    Hi,I have the same problem with my late 2011 mac book 13". In windows 10, everything is working prefect except the sound and my problem is exactly as yours. Did you find any solution for this problem?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 18, 2015 3:46 PM in response to arash_abd
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    Oct 18, 2015 3:46 PM in response to arash_abd

    W10 is officially not supported in 2011 Macs. Can you check if the W10 installation is BIOS or UEFI? Do you have any Audio devices in Device Manager?

  • by arash_abd,

    arash_abd arash_abd Oct 18, 2015 11:43 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 18, 2015 11:43 PM in response to Loner T

    It's UEFI and I have Audio devices in device Manager. but I can not install the driver for this. Thanks for your quick response by the way.

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