No Audio Boot Camp Windows 8

Hello everyone.

I am so frustrated at this process of getting these audio drivers installed on my late 2011 MBP. I have tried every single thing; from updating bootcamp drivers, to installing .exe in certain orders, reinstalls, downloading the stuffedcow link and mapping the update to that folder with no success.

I have yes, booted it partitioned with an EFI boot, due to the fact I do not have a optical drive in this macbook any longer. I also used GTPDISK to get it to format on windows installation.

There has to be a way to do this, I hope someone can help me. I really need this to work for professional applications and its nothing but a disappointment 😟. Please help!!

jswarb wrote:

I have yes, booted it partitioned with an EFI boot, due to the fact I do not have a optical drive in this macbook any longer. I also used GTPDISK to get it to format on windows installation.

You will not get Audio unless you use a BIOS/MBR installation on 2011 models. The devices are only exposed via CSM-BIOS.

An external Optical drive will not work. You need to disconnect the disk in Optibay by disconnecting the SATA cable till Windows is installed on the main bay disk. Use a VMware/Winclone method documented on MacRumours to install MBR/BIOS and test. Once tested, then connect the Optibay disk.

You will not be able to repair Windows in the future due to the lack of Optical drive.

I figured I needed to reinstall my optical drive back into the computer, just really didnt want to do this!! But thanks for the heads up, and i will give it a try.

Quick question, isnt VM ware/WInclone the virtual way of doing so? I want a full seperate partition on the main SSD drive.

jswarb wrote:

I figured I needed to reinstall my optical drive back into the computer, just really didnt want to do this!! But thanks for the heads up, and i will give it a try.

Good that you have kept the Optical drive. 😉

Quick question, isnt VM ware/WInclone the virtual way of doing so? I want a full seperate partition on the main SSD drive.

Yes, it is. You will get a separate partition, unless you want to dedicate the full SSD to Windows only.

Looks perfect! Last thing though, as long as I made the install disk, and it is inserted, when the computer restarts after bootcamp, it will boot into the disk? And it should format correctly without using gpt disk to change the settings in terminal? Just making sure...

Remove the current EFI Windows installation so your disk can go back to a single partition and run BC Assistant, and look at the last option. It will be enabled once the installation DVD is recognized. Follow the prompts. This will also let you change the BC partition's size.

If you need to re-use the current partition, then you will need to use GPT Fdisk to create a Hybrid MBR so the Installer can see it and let you erase/re-format the partition. In this case, after the MBR is created, shutdown your Mac, Insert the DVD, boot and hold Alt/Option and choose the Windows icon (not EFI) and continue. This method does not allow partition size changes.

When you say "right click sound" do you mean right click the not working Realtek high definition audio? because when i select the folder with the cirrus it says i so not need to upgrade the realtek audio. Thank you in advance!

Hello Everyone ! I had the same problem with my mac but figured out the resolution ! You will need to boot up your computer to windows login and then if you have a mac osx installation disk you want to insert that in then double click the disk in my computer then choose the third option which should say bootcamp or something along those lines Then it will install all bootcamp drivers neccesary for your mac For EX isight camera audio driver things along those lines

Now just let the installer do its job it will say removing old realtek driver but dont worry thats ok its installing the new compatible one Then thats it all you have to do is restart and all of your drivers should be working properly 🙂

I installed **Windows 8 64bit**, via **usb dongle** (efi boot) on BootCamp partition. I notice the **no audio problem** (there is a device called "**High Definition Audio**" on system device that cant run properly and show code 10).

I've already tried to install latest Realtek High definition audio codec, but still having this problem.

Anybody had the same problem and resolve it?

I've an **iMac 2011 mid**.

P.S. I see the Cirrus solution but i don't know if my mac have this soundcard and i don't know what driver choose in the huge cirrus driver list

Thanx in advice

I got a bit of same problem:

I recently installed windows on my mac with the following method:

I used the bootcamp assistant program to make a parition on my mac and installed windows on one of them.

I couldn't use my partition to install windows on it, so I decided to clean my whole drive and used it to install windows on it.(Which means I don't have my osx part of the pc)

Now I only have windows on this mac and not OSX. I still have the flash drive where I installed the bootcamp assistant on though. Now I figured out the following problem: I don't have any sounds. I tried to solve this problem, but to all discussions I go, they say you need to go to your OSX part of the computer and install the newest software for your windows. But I can't! Does anyone know how to solve this? I'd really like sounds on my computer 🙂

My mac: iMac mid 2011

Didn't actually notice yet: I don't get sound out of my speakers, but am I able to get sound out of my headphones?

The thing is my PC doesn't detect my headphones though. I thought of buying this: https://www.bol.com/nl/p/logilink-usb-soundkarte/9200000026526974/?country=BE&Re ferrer=ADVNLGOO002013-G-39325988560-S-271256211063-9200000026526974

So I can get sound with this thing.

First question: Is it my internal speakers that don't work, or is it my audio built-in cart that doesn't work?

Second question: If it's the speakers, can I try to plug in headphones? The thing is my pc doesn't detect it, that's why I'll need a solution for that.

I've decided that I have so many problems with my windows I wanna reinstall macOS...

I know this is very unexpected but i just get too many issues it's unbelievable..

Do you know a way I can reinstall apple. (Notice my only driver is installed with windows, but this pc originally is a mac, mid 2011)

It was a OSX yosemite 10.10, can you help me?

Hi,

I have found a solution for the windows audio problems in the Mac.

I'm the owner of a MBP 13" from 2012. I installed two hard drives and tried to install in the second hard drive windows with a lot of problems, so I decided to share the big disk with windows but I had the same audio problems as everybody.

Finally I decided to install windows 7,and after I asked myself: what will happen if I upgrade to windows 10? So I did, and the result is that everything works perfectly.

The solution: install Windows 7 and check that everything is working. After that, make an upgrade to windows 10.

I expect that it works for future new installations.

Best regards

BIOS Version: Apple Inc. MBP91.88Z.00D7.B00.1708080744, 08/08/2017

SMBIOS Version: 2.4

BIOS Mode: Legacy

I'm not English. In Spanish the BIOS mode is "Heredado" and I suppose that the translation is "Legacy" in IT vocabulary.

Best regards