Boot camp drivers cause windows 7 crash and reboot
I have a Macbook pro (around late 2006). Windows 7 installs and works (except for some of the drivers). Boot camp installs successfully, but after the first required boot camp reboot, windows 7 ubruptly reboots everytime shortly after login. There is no BSOD, no memory dump or event log entry. It looks like a cold reboot. From there on, only safe mode works or if I revert windows back to "last known good configuation".
I have tried disabled all obvious drivers (bluetooth, WLAN, camera, audio, etc) and stopping apple related services, and no luck. Tried Intel Chipset drivers from intel as well.
If I manually install some of the bootcamp drivers like keyboard, trackpad, etc, it is fine. However, I'm trying to get media-keys, backlit keyboard, etc working and those seem to be only installed via the main bootcamp msi.
This issue is present on all 32-bit and 64-bit windows 7 pro and ultimate and I have tried Snow Leopard bootcamp and earlier boot camp versions. The combination of Win7 32bit and Snow Leopard boot camp is the "supported" setup which suffers from the same issue.
I haven't tried Vista, but there where no hardware issues under XP and boot camp as of last week. So I don't think it's hardware failure, something that boot camp installs which has enough capability to cause reboot without the kernel knowing about it.
has anyone else experienced this? or know of a remedy?
thanks in advance,
-a
I have tried disabled all obvious drivers (bluetooth, WLAN, camera, audio, etc) and stopping apple related services, and no luck. Tried Intel Chipset drivers from intel as well.
If I manually install some of the bootcamp drivers like keyboard, trackpad, etc, it is fine. However, I'm trying to get media-keys, backlit keyboard, etc working and those seem to be only installed via the main bootcamp msi.
This issue is present on all 32-bit and 64-bit windows 7 pro and ultimate and I have tried Snow Leopard bootcamp and earlier boot camp versions. The combination of Win7 32bit and Snow Leopard boot camp is the "supported" setup which suffers from the same issue.
I haven't tried Vista, but there where no hardware issues under XP and boot camp as of last week. So I don't think it's hardware failure, something that boot camp installs which has enough capability to cause reboot without the kernel knowing about it.
has anyone else experienced this? or know of a remedy?
thanks in advance,
-a
Mackbook pro, Windows 7
