Boot Camp won't start in Windows 8

There are bugs with using Apple drivers and you can bet that no one knows when Apple might release something, they tried releasing Boot Camp 3.0 before Windows 7 RTM though at the end of RC, rushed to say the least to put it on snow leopard DVDs months before 7 was ready, resulting in buggy drivers.

Luckily Boot Camp Assistant works. Bad news: they could tie Windows 8 drivers and support to Mountain Lion. Some Macs would fully support 8 but not 10.8. Posting the drivers seems to be ignored // out of the question and has never been done. Nor does Apple's software udpate in Windows seem to be used for Boot Camp related drivers.

Have you solved your problem yet ? I have same problem for macbook air mid 2012, I can't access bootcamp control panel in Window 8 Release Review. So, I can't setup the track pad for right click, tap to click... 😟

I just have problem with the trackpad. I can't use the two fingers, secondary click without setup in the Trackpad-Bootcamp Control Panel frist.

My keyboard, Fn function, Brightness, Volume work fine. However, after changing the Bootcamp properties, reinstall it many times, my bootcamp doesn't start automatically when start up, I have to open it manually.

I will come back to window 7, and wait for the update from Apple.

I also can not open boot camp on my new MBP with windows 8 CP. So I can not modify the brightness and the trackpad. I believe the brightness somehow is relating to the display driver since there is no display driver for windows 8 now.

But I did manage to make the trackpad work. You need to install trackpad++

(http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4967-trackpad-control-module.html), it will enable the trackpad driver on boot camp. After you install the trackpad++, trackpad++ will complain something. ingnore it. You should be able to enable trackpad. And you can now even uninstall the trackpad++, the trackpad will sill work.

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Macbook Pro, summer 2012

Windows 8 CP x64

I found this which solved my display brightness problem..hope it helps

http://www.howtogeek.com/107173/disable-windows-8s-adaptive-brightness-to-fix-da rk-screen-problems/

Thank you and AfflatusX for providing me the suggestion.

I tried that but it still wont work for me. I am not sure what graphics card I am using. But I just got my Macbook Pro 13' in less than one month and I check the configure, it should be Intel HD Graphics 4000 processor since mine is 13' and only the 15' has the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics processor which is called Retina display.

I checked the Device manager and found that I actually only have the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter, which means that there is no actually right display driver for the x64 Windows 8 CP .

I even tried to get the latest beta version display driver for Intel HD Graphics 4000. It was installed with no error. But after I restarted the computer, the display became black and I could not see anything. I had to use the windows install disk to restore to the original basic original display driver.

To sum, there is no correct display driver for my MBP right now. This cause the video can not be played smoothly ( still OK but not smooth). It also possibly makes the screen too bright. :-(

Safe mode should always still boot and let you go to device manager and rollback a driver; or grab Driver Sweeper 3.2 and that will. Intel Downloads Center 4000 driver is up and didn't look to be beta to me.

Besides Device Manager an easy way to see devices, firmware even, driver versions is AIDA64

http://www.aida64.com/

In OS X System Profile should show what graphic devices you have. As well as the specs page

www.apple.com/support/macbookpro - they have rearranged specs and manuals a bit

Hi, thank you very much for all the suggestion.

For the x64 win8, I think the driver is beta:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Graphic s&ProductLine=Processor+graphics&ProductProduct=3rd+Generation+Intel%C2%AE+Core% E2%84%A2+Processors+with+Intel%C2%AE+HD+Graphics+4000%2f2500&ProdId=3498&LineId= 3310&FamilyId=39

somehow I can not get the options to select safe mode or normal mode during windows starting by press F8 on my MBP. All I can is either come into the normal windows or by configue msconfig and reboot into safe mode.

Have the same problem with Windows 8 and the rMBP here. Can't get to open the Apple Bootcamp System Utility in Windows: "An error occurred while trying to access the startup disk settings.". No solution to this yet?

After updating from Consumer Preivew to Release Preview, my system automatically installed the intel graphic 4000 driver. Now I can adjust the brightness and the screen not too bright for me.

Also, by intalling the trackpad++ and uninstall it, I was be able to enable the tackpad.

Still, I could not open the Boot Camp, but it seems for now I can live without the options in boot camp.

I got/get the same error when trying to launch the "Boot Camp Control Panel", but I just stumpled upon a solution.

I created a new Windows user, that was not Administrator. When I logged in Boot Camp updateded something and asked me to restart the computer.

After restarting and logging in with my new user, I could start the "Boot Camp Control Panel" configure tap to click and use F1-F12 as function keys.

Then I changed the new account to Administrator and now the control panel can not be startet again... but my settings remained... only on the new user only though.

I havn't tried changing the original user to "standard" and back to "admin", but I hope it works.

I don't have any problems with my bightness, keyboardbacklid or volumen controls or other fn keys.

PS: I'm running Windows 8 RP on the Macbook Retina.

I noticed this too (new MacBook Retina w/ Windows 8 RP)!

Unfortunately, having to use a secondary account all the time is a bit of an annoying workaround... but Boot Camp Control Panel definitely works correctly under a secondary, non-admin account.

So far, I've tried forcing Bootcamp.exe to run under a different account (the secondary account) to avail, as well as running it in compatibility mode (Windows 7) and as an Admin. Nothing works.

FYI, Windows 8 won't let you make the primary user a standard, non-admin account. It's locked into Administrator.

Whatever is wrong with Bootcamp Control Panel under Windows 8, it's uniquely tied to that primary user account. :-/