Issue with MacHALDriver.sys on Windows 8

I did this and the OS does seem more stable, that being said when I tried to adjust the brightness with the F- keys BAM BSOD.

Thanks for this guys! I have yet to implement, but I will update as soon as I get home. I was going to be sad if I had to wait around for Apple to release new drivers.

Disable the monitor driver dont work for me.

I just simply disable the bootcamp.exe from startup item and it work, no more BSOD

Crit + Alt + Del -> Task Manager -> Startup -> Boot Camp Manager -> right click disable

i think i found a correlation with this BSOD and use of the latest catalyst drivers. It could be Catalyst Control Center (CCC). On a clean install of windows 8 if you install the bootcamp drivers in compatability mode essentially everything works perfectly. I noticed that as soon as I went to the latest catalyst beta drivers which installed CCC & several beta drivers this BSOD came back. After i backed out the beta catalyst drivers completely and switched to the latest release drivers (which do not include CCC, meaning effectively uninstalled CCC) the BSOD was gone again. Something to think about if you also have catalyst installed on your win 8 system.

I also had less BSODs (not eliminated, but less frequently) by setting up maximum brightness on Mac, disabling the dynamic brightness, and disabling dynamic video card switching.

On windows I changed power management to not change brightness on plugging/unplugging to AC, and set brightness to 100%.

Will try disabling the PnP monitor to see if it helps.

I meet the same issue, My macbook pro is Mid-2010, Blue screen: bad pool header

YOU. ARE. MY. HERO.

Disabling the PnP driver in Monitors within Device Manager did the trick.

YOU HAVE JUST SAVED ME FROM WEEKS OF BSODS AND FPS/DPC STORMS. I've been doing everything imaginable, took it to able, submitted dumps, I've had over 30 BSODs in the last week. I am so grateful to you for posting this. I cannot thank you enough.

Happy Holidays & New Year!

Best,
Philip

I can confirm that disabling "Generic PnP Display" driver prevents the BSOD from ocurring.

@APPLE: Why isn't this fixed yet? Please review your Watson crash dump DB: This is a serious issue.

What happens if you disable the Generic PnP Display? Does the monitor not function as well?

*facepalm* Bootcamp manages the important drivers for windows. if you disable it, nothing works...

Thank you Richard, for restoring my faith in humanity. It's people like you that make the online IT world go 'round. I tried it, and no more BSODs. Thank you very much

@ashlandguy2: Glad to help. This has been driving me nuts (and cost me an unnecessary $350 for a replacement motherboard) for several months now.

Don't disable all of BootCamp - just Windows' "Generic PnP Display" driver in Device Manager's "Displays" node 🙂

Disabling the Generic PnP driver actually made my MBP 2009 worse. My screen faded to black twice and now I can't get past the boot logo where Windows 8 freezes. The partition does however still work in VMWare where I can make changes.

How to chance the brightness in windows when disabling the PnP Display driver?

When will Apple fix this nasty bug? On Developer Version of windows 8 i do not have any problemes with brightness and bootcamp 😟