MBP 2012 pre retina bootcamp Windows 10 no audio

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MBP 2012 pre retina bootcamp Windows 10 no audio

Hello everyone. As the title suggests, I am using a 2012 MacBook Pro and I am having issues with bootcamp. Installation went fine, as did the windows 10 bootcamp tools installer as far as I can tell. However I have no audio. Only a red x on the volume icon. The troubleshooter did nothing and in the sound and devices menu it simply is not finding the sound devices. On MacOS Mojave and Catalina the sound works fine so its clearly a driver issue. Im ripping my hair out here. Does anyone have the correct sound drivers on hand or know where I can download them?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Nov 5, 2019 11:26 PM

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Loner T

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Nov 6, 2019 3:58 AM in response to Akrilove

From an Administrative CMD window in Windows, run msinfo32 and post the output of BIOS Mode.

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Akrilove Author

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Nov 6, 2019 2:05 PM in response to Loner T

Ok ill look over that solution but while I have you here just to cover my bases I will ask one more idea. If I were willing to loose all of my data on both drives (really I just got this thing a week or so ago so thats not a lot of data) and installed an older version of macOS to run bootcamp from instead, would that also fix the problem? And if so, what version/steps would you recommend?

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Akrilove Author

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Nov 6, 2019 11:24 AM in response to Loner T

After doing so it shows that the bios mode is UEFI. Image attached showing the rest of the summary.

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Loner T

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Nov 6, 2019 2:12 PM in response to Akrilove

Akrilove wrote:

And if so, what version/steps would you recommend?

My recommendation would then be macOS Sierra.

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Akrilove Author

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Nov 6, 2019 2:15 PM in response to Loner T

Would I still use a windows 10 iso or would I try to find a windows 7 one?

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Loner T

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Nov 6, 2019 2:18 PM in response to Akrilove

macOS Sierra supports W10.

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Akrilove Author

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Nov 6, 2019 2:21 PM in response to Loner T

And one last possibility idiotic question. If I do all of that and get windows 10 installed, if I then upgrade the Sierra install to Mojave would the problem come back?

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Loner T

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Nov 6, 2019 2:24 PM in response to Akrilove

Mojave is supposed to grandfather already installed Windows on your model. If necessary, the MBR can be rebuilt, as longs as the original installation stays in BIOS mode.

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