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Q: Windows 7 x64 with boot camp 4.0 - "unsupported model"

I just purchased and installed Lion yesterday on my late 2008 macbook (aluminum unibody macbook5,1 Core2Duo 8GB Ram). I then installed Win 7 64-bit professional without any problems, but when I ran the windows support software from BC 4.0, I received the message: "x64-bit unsupported on this computer model." I previously had the same Win7n 64-bit installed on snow leopard without any problems using bootcamp 3.2 (I might have had to do the compatibility trick to get the x64 bit drivers to install). So is there a way to force install the BC 4.0 x64bit drivers? Maybe BC 3.2 usable with Lion?... I have to imagine someone else ran into this same problem, any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 11:18 AM

by The hatter,Solvedanswer
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A:

You can and need to allow Windows Update, depending when etc or new, even post-SP1 which was 800MB (9GB temp space needed) there are still a lot more.

 

The Boot Camp Assistant thing "Download to CD" has NEVER EVER worked. And hugely disappointed it is still the same. That "ahem, FEATURE" was first present in 10.6.6, that is 9 months with no acknowledgement or support article or explanation - which also triggers and generates 100s posts and threads as to what/why and what to do.

 

If you have SL DVD, if you have Boot Camp 3.0.x and either have or just go ahead and update to boot camp 3.2 then.

 

And of course nothing here either, all of which tell me, someone didn't prepare the good old documentation.

 

http://support.apple.com/downloads/#Bootcamp

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 3:02 PM

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  • by l008com,

    l008com l008com Dec 27, 2011 6:58 PM in response to kernel4
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    Dec 27, 2011 6:58 PM in response to kernel4

    Is there another way to do this?

    My mouse only has one button. Control clicking won't work until AFTER I install the bootcamp drivers. There must be some other way to run this command as an administrator?

  • by l008com,

    l008com l008com Dec 27, 2011 7:02 PM in response to l008com
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    Dec 27, 2011 7:02 PM in response to l008com

    Nevermind I found it. The trick was to use the arrow keys to select CMD from the search results, and choose it by hitting control shift enter, instead of just enter. BootCamp is installing as we speak.

  • by dave169,

    dave169 dave169 Jan 31, 2012 7:39 PM in response to Doming0
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    Jan 31, 2012 7:39 PM in response to Doming0

    So I came across this issue installing Windows 7 Home Premium on my more than capable MacPro 1,1.

     

    I couldn't get the execute command in "elevated privilege" mode previously stated to work from the command line or from "right-clicking".

     

    The trick is to click on Start, type in the "Search programs and files" box, type "cmd" and then hit "ctrl+shift+return".  This executes the command prompt in Elevated privileges mode, and then run your msiexec /i command.

  • by Jaygyver,

    Jaygyver Jaygyver Jan 31, 2012 9:18 PM in response to dave169
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    Jan 31, 2012 9:18 PM in response to dave169

    You know, I was wondering if you were to insert your computers Boot Rom Version profile into the ""<key>DARequiredROMVersions</key>"" description in the .plist file in Boot Camp Assistant, like you would for the MBA hack as it were for the un-dimming of the "Create a Windows install disk" option if it would install normally?

     

    Heres the link.

     

    Oh buggers, I was thinking of something else.

     

    Message was edited by: Jaygyver

  • by tim4791,

    tim4791 tim4791 Mar 19, 2012 5:24 PM in response to kernel4
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    Mar 19, 2012 5:24 PM in response to kernel4

    Thanks Judah87. I did need to change the command to cd Drivers\Apple and omit WindowsSupport. Working great now!

  • by Kreynor,

    Kreynor Kreynor Nov 23, 2012 5:11 AM in response to kernel4
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    Nov 23, 2012 5:11 AM in response to kernel4

    I love you.

    I was in the exact situation and I know very little about Windows. Thanks.

  • by kevlam3,

    kevlam3 kevlam3 Feb 2, 2014 6:02 AM in response to Doming0
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    Feb 2, 2014 6:02 AM in response to Doming0

    I had the same problem too with my Unibody Macbook late 2008 model with Windows 7 64bit.

    I tried troubleshooting compatibility and all that and it still wont run.

     

    The way i got around it was:

    1) Copy the BootCamp data onto my desktop

    2) to basically disable UAC (User Account Control) setting in control panel to "never notify" and make sure you are in administrator account, then restart windows.

    3) I then navigate BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp.msi -> and run the installer. Voila! everything installs.

     

    BTW, I used Boot Camp 4 downloaded from Apple website. Not sure if it works running BootCamp from pendrive.

     

    Hope that helps

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