Macbook Pro 12 (early 2015) Windows 10 Bootcamp

Thanks LonerT.

Managed to install the Bootcamp which was downloaded from Brigadier. I was runnign the setup.exe by directly double clicking it. This time I ran it from command line - In theory this should make no difference but for some reason the drivers worked fine after the install. They did not before!

Thanks for all the help.

Windows is working well (on a faulty motherboard as per Apple) where MacOS is not! Well done Microsoft.

Drivers issue was when I installed windows.

I don’t have MacOS running at all now. I just burned a new windows bootable flash drive. Then formatted the macbook hard disk and installed windows as you would install on any other hop/ dell computer. Then used brigadier to install the drivers.

macOS just does not install. Installation halts at about ‘13 minute left ‘ message.

Apple genius said it was a kernel panic and the logic board needs to be replaced. They had the laptop in store for a couple of days and ran some diagnosis to come to that conclusion.

Tried, it downloads 6.0 - The audio, trackpad, keyboard keys like brightness & volume don't not work with those drivers from 6.0.

I don't understand how Windows install on the macbook pro but not the MacOS (Apple store says I need to replace the MLB).

I was trying to install the latest Catalina update when the laptop went into Kernel Panic. Could not recover after that. Tried erasing the hard drive entirely, tried a new hard drive.

Took it to the apple store - they say MLB needs to replace for £480. They could not even install an older version of MacOSx using Triage.

BTW I managed to install latest Ubuntu and that works perfectly fine - no driver issues as well. I am not an ubuntu user really so was really hoping Windows will work.

Windows installed fine and works fine but the missing drivers is restricting the use.

I still cannot believe that Windows & Ubuntu work well on a faluty MLB as per Apple. Apple says they cannot comment on how the other OSes work.

Did not try on an external disk. But I tried with APFS.

i also tried with MacOS Yosemite with MacOS extended with journeled Scheme. It just wouldn’t install the OS.

in fact I tried on a new hard disk as well - same issue!

BTW I was already running Catalina. The issue started when installing the latest update.

Apple genius said the hardware issues may get uncovered during a new OS install which in theory is correct however I did not think it was the case here.

Not sure which update it was exactly. I used to have auto update in place. The update was downloaded in the 1st week of June.

I did not install GPT fdisk unless it comes as part of the OS.

Re the diagnostics, I did not run it at home but the genius at store did run some diagnostics and he said everything looked fine. He tried to install some older versions of the OS as well at the Apple store but that failed with the typical 'Your computer resterted because of a problem' screen. At that point they said they will keep the laptop and run some diagnostics. And next day they called to tell me that the MLB needs to be replaced. I don't think they opened the laptop so all the diagnostics was on a software level. When I asked how they came to the conclusion that the MLB was faulty they did not have any answer. They just said they tried triage which did not work so it must be the MLB issue.

I am not fully aware of how apple store engineers diagnose the issue but I believe a faulty MLB wont run Windows 10!