MacBook Pro 13'' (mid 2010) Windows 8 support

Try making the partition as MS-DOS(FAT). I'm pretty sure there will be a bit of difference, because I have my Bootcamp partition as MS-DOS, and it's working perfectly fine.

I fixed brightness issue by installing the latest nvidia driver from thier website. This is exactly what I installed:

yes it works but! when i turn it max! it seem to be not as bright as it used to !!
any others helps ??! please !

It seems you are right.

Currently, I'm downloading a new driver for GeoForce ... There is a utitliy called NVIDIA GeoForce Experience (this utitlity will be available when you istall the driver).

Run it to update your driver .. I still do not know it its gonna be fixed lets see.

can someone tell if in this time we can avoid that crashes?

I recommend you fresh install of windows 8.1.

Then try to install bootcamp-4 drivers in compatibility mode (win 7)

Then try to work some time and disable windows updates.

Then, if it will works ok, try to install latest updates of windows.

At least there's chance you will get working system (even without updates).

I have still crashes… after disable dinamictick

my case is the same 😟 no luck windows 8 crashes always…

ceb687 wrote:

Correct. I have done all of that. I have Boot Camp 5.0.3 installed and everything works perfectly except for the freeze crashes. I have already done that action in CMD and several other "fixes" that didn't do anything. I am just seeing if the community has any other post install pointers that I could use. I have my partition set up as an NDFS type if that makes a difference.

Here is my solution to install Windows 8 on Mac Book Pro 13 mid 2010 (check several times):

1. So to fix the crash use this: (right after installation)

1. Run CMD as ADMINISTRATOR:

2. Type: bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes

3. Restart ;-)"

2. Driver installation

1. Download the BootCamp 5 zip-file and extract, download from here http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1638/en_US/BootCamp5.0.5033.zip

2. Start a command prompt as administrator, and navigate to the following folder inside the extracted files \BootCamp5.0.5033\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\

3. Type msiexec /i BootCamp.msi, hit enter, and the installer should start just fine

dmitryfromsaint-petersburg wrote:

Here is my solution to install Windows 8 on Mac Book Pro 13 mid 2010 (check several times):

1. So to fix the crash use this: (right after installation)

1. Run CMD as ADMINISTRATOR:

2. Type: bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes

3. Restart ;-)"

2. Driver installation

1. Download the BootCamp 5 zip-file and extract, download from here http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1638/en_US/BootCamp5.0.5033.zip

2. Start a command prompt as administrator, and navigate to the following folder inside the extracted files \BootCamp5.0.5033\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\

3. Type msiexec /i BootCamp.msi, hit enter, and the installer should start just fine

I have done that… of course I still have crashes… I see one video on youtube, the user is using windows 8.1 in the macbook pro 13" mid 2010 without doing the Disabledynamictick trick and he says that he has never have any crashes… maybe is a problem of many but not all macbooks of this particular model 😟

Does anyone know if with the new bootcamp that apple released today the crashes are solved?

New Bootcamp?!? I don't have any updates in the appstore :/

This guy http://youtu.be/JgDqf0LBkDs has a macbook pro 13" mid 2010 like mine but... working without problems in windows 8... He tell me that he didn't do nothing to get a fully working and no-crashing machine 😟

I followed your instructions and installed "Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621" on my mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro (Macbook7,1) from CMD as an administrator. I already had Win 8.1 running via Bootcamp 4, but with issues - Unable to launch Bootcamp Control Panel, No two-finger scrolling on Trackpad, Fn keys not working etc. With Boot Camp 5.1.5621 I seem to have everything working on Win 8.1 for the first time ever!

Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621 http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1720/en_US/BootCamp5.1.5621.zip (Post Date: Feb 11, 2014)

hi everyone, I struggled a lot to solve all issues.

i did a very crazy solution,

I decided to try parallels with windows 8.1
it was working perfectly but slow a little bit, I saw that it works perfectly without any problem but as I said "slow a little bit"

so i bought SSD 🙂 ... 250 GB Kingston. And becomes fast .. I advise you to try windows 8.1 with trial version of parallels or VMware ...

bit crazy but im ok with that now.

peace.