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MBPro Win 7 x64 Errors

Hi, I have recently bought a MacBook Pro 2009 from a mate who sold it as faulty. The Apple store said it was a faulty Logic Board but couldn't say for certain what the problem was. Having experience with PCs I tried putting an old HDD in to test if it would work and it did. So I bought an SSD and installed Win 7 via Bootcamp.

Last night I upgraded OSX to 10.9.4 Mavericks which installed okay, then I installed the upgrade to 10.9.5 and left it running when I went to work. When I got home I found the Mac had frozen at the login screen with a spinning multi-coloured wheel in the top left corner but the machine was unresponsive so I had to hold the power button down for 4 seconds to turn it off. After I restarted the update installed (again) successfully.

In Win 7 here is the hardware specs of my Mac:


System Manufacturer Apple Inc.

System Model MacBookPro5,5

System Type x64-based PC

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7550 @ 2.26GHz, 2261 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date Apple Inc. MBP55.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151708, 15/06/2009


Having heard OSX was rock solid I booted into Win 7 x64 and looked through the event logs and found these 2 errors which seem to be hardware related:


Log Name: System

Source: ACPI

Date: 22/09/2014 18:53:00

Event ID: 13

Task Category: None

Level: Error

Keywords: Classic

User: N/A

Computer: User-PC

Description:

: The embedded controller (EC) did not respond within the specified timeout period. This may indicate that there is an error in the EC hardware or firmware or that the BIOS is accessing the EC incorrectly. You should check with your computer manufacturer for an upgraded BIOS. In some situations, this error may cause the computer to function incorrectly.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

<Provider Name="ACPI" />

<EventID Qualifiers="49157">13</EventID>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>0</Task>

<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-09-22T17:53:00.173600000Z" />

<EventRecordID>4965</EventRecordID>

<Channel>System</Channel>

<Computer>User-PC</Computer>

<Security />

</System>

<EventData>

<Data>

</Data>

<Binary>0000C00001000000000000000D0005C0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000AB9B21001101FFFF7100020011000A008100A800A1080B021100090011020E004121020 016088A03A618891F161A14003680050015180C001018C600600005009001A60070000500101A0A0 08000070030830200151007002180070011117602A1134D111110090011120E00412102001618280 0A6032D00161A0E00368002001518060000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binar y>

</EventData>

</Event>


and


Log Name: System

Source: Microsoft-Windows-HAL

Date: 22/09/2014 10:38:15

Event ID: 12

Task Category: None

Level: Error

Keywords: (1)

User: N/A

Computer: User-PC

Description:

The platform firmware has corrupted memory across the previous system power transition. Please check for updated firmware for your system.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-HAL" Guid="{63D1E632-95CC-4443-9312-AF927761D52A}" />

<EventID>12</EventID>

<Version>0</Version>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>0</Task>

<Opcode>0</Opcode>

<Keywords>0x8000000000000001</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-09-22T09:38:15.186000000Z" />

<EventRecordID>4556</EventRecordID>

<Correlation />

<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="4440" />

<Channel>System</Channel>

<Computer>User-PC</Computer>

<Security />

</System>

<EventData>

<Data Name="Count">1</Data>

<Data Name="FirstPage">143</Data>

<Data Name="LastPage">143</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>


could somebody point me in the right direction as to how to resolve these issues? My Machine has been upgraded to 8gb ddr3 1333mhz and a 240gb Kingston SSD 6Gbps. I think this version of the Mac only supports 1.5Gbps sata bus, I have downloaded a driver from apple to upgrade the EFI to install faster storage to the 3.0Gbps but they do not support it so I am unsure if installing it will be a good idea.


Thanks for reading.


Darren

MacBook Pro, Windows 7, OSX 10.9.5

Posted on Sep 22, 2014 1:30 PM

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7 replies

Sep 22, 2014 5:44 PM in response to Loner T

Hi Loner T, according to that page the EFI version I have installed is the one on the website and there is no SMC update. The SMBios I have is 1.42f2. Finding what bootcamp drivers I have installed is a little tricky, I downloaded a lot of versions as I am still new to this (apple). But I think the only one that would install is the 4.0.4003. Non of the others I tried would install.


Darren

Sep 22, 2014 6:27 PM in response to JerkinbedDaz

Your 13" June 2009 MBP needs 4.0.4033.


From Boot Camp Support Software 4.0.4033 System Requirements...


Post Date: Mar 14, 2013

File Size: 601.76

System Requirements

  • MacBook (13-inch, Late 2006)
  • MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2007)
  • MacBook (13-inch, Late 2007)
  • MacBook (13-inch, Early 2008)
  • MacBook (13-inch, Late 2008)
  • MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009 & Mid 2009)
  • MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009) *
  • MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010) *
  • MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2008)
  • MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2008 & Mid 2009)
  • MacBook Air (11-inch & 13-inch, Late 2010) *
  • MacBook Pro (15-inch & 17-inch, Core 2 Duo)
  • MacBook Pro (15-inch & 17-inch, 2.2 & 2.4GHz)
  • MacBook Pro (15-inch & 17-inch, Early 2008) *
  • MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008) *
  • MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009 & Mid 2009) *
  • MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2009) *
  • MacBook Pro (13-inch and 15-inch, Mid 2009) *
  • MacBook Pro (13-inch,15-inch, and 17-inch, Mid 2010)
  • MacBook Pro (13-in, 15-inch, and 17-inch, Early 2011 & Late 2011)
  • Mac Pro (Mid 2006)
  • Mac Pro (Early 2008) *
  • Mac Pro (Early 2009)
  • Mac Pro (Early 2007)
  • Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
  • Mac Pro (15-inch and 17-inch, 2.2 & 2.4GHz)
  • Mac mini (Mid 2007)
  • Mac mini (Early 2009 & Late 2009)
  • Mac mini (Mid 2010) *
  • iMac (17-inch, Late 2006)
  • iMac (20-inch, Late 2006)
  • iMac (24-inch, Late 2006)
  • iMac (20-inch & 24-inch, Mid 2007)
  • iMac (20-inch & 24-inch, Early 2008)
  • iMac (20-inch, Early 2009 & Mid 2009)
  • iMac (21.5-inch & 27-inch, Late 2009) *
  • iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) *
  • iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010) *
  • iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)
  • iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011 & Late 2011)
  • iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011)

all these drivers support Windows 7, 32 bit

* drivers that support Windows 7, 32 and 64 bit

Sep 23, 2014 12:08 AM in response to Loner T

Originally that was what i installed by double clicking the setup.exe file in the extracted bootcamp folder. as far as i understand it should have installed the correct software. Today I am using the BootCamp Utility to download the correct files for my mac to a usb drive. Hoping this might download something different and solve my problems. The Ram was installed by the Apple Store Months and months ago. I've never seen a HAL error caused by failing ram so i don't consider the ram to be a fault. Is there any software I can run on my mac to test the ram? I've got software for use in a PC but Macs are very different I believe.


Daz

MBPro Win 7 x64 Errors

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