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Driver issues Windows 10 on A1181 (no headphone playback devices)

Hi there,

Please be gentle as I'm VERY new to the Mac world/community!

It took me quite some time but I finally managed to get my A1181 (Macbook 2.1) to run Windows 10 today. I couldn't get the drivers downloaded through Boot Camp (3.0.4) but I'm now up and running with the exception of the IR Remote, Camera but most importantly, I've no audio. Zero. Nada. (I'm running Snow Leopard).

I'm coming from a Windows background so I'm pretty familiar with that side of things. In device manager I've no issues showing with the "Audio inputs and outputs" nor "Sound, video and game controllers".

When I go to Sound, Playback Devices, only Speakers and Digital Audio show up, no mention of headphones. I also have the red light in the headphone socket.

I've spent hours trawling through version forums to try to resolve my audio issue but I've drawn a blank. I've tried installing a few different drivers but it shows the ones that I'm running as the most up to date.

Any suggestions please?

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Posted on Aug 20, 2015 2:51 PM

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Loner T

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Posted on Aug 22, 2015 7:59 AM

You have a 13-in Late 2007 Macbook. From System requirements to install Windows 7 and earlier on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support, the highest you can go is Windows 7 32-bit. There are no drivers for Windows 10 for your Mac based on Use Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp - Apple Support. Your Mac is also not in the official list of supported W10 Macs.

You can download the drivers from the W7 link and install them with Administrative privileges and compatibility set to W7 when install specific drivers by hand. You may still encounter errors.

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woldranger Author

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Aug 22, 2015 8:45 AM in response to Loner T

I'm actually running the 64 bit version after reading that it was possible (all I had to do was to modify the Windows 10 install ISO from the Microsoft site on my PC to make it bootable and burn it to a dvd ) and, to my credit it's working really well It's just this one pesky driver.

I'm gonna have a go at the 64 bit driver from that link but if you could clear one thing up for me please? When you earlier mentioned "install them with Administrative privileges and compatibility set to W7". How exactly would I go about installing with Admin privileges?

woldranger Author

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Aug 22, 2015 9:05 AM in response to Loner T

I downloaded the relevant file you mentioned earlier and as I thought, it's the same that I already had. I need to know the "specific" driver to download. I tried just trying to select 64bit drivers from Realtek and Cirrus and even ones from the Apple folder just in case but to no avail. This is actually where I found the missing drivers for the IR etc but I can't find the relevant.

I've not been able to find the model of my soundcard - any suggestions?

woldranger Author

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Aug 22, 2015 9:46 AM in response to Loner T

In msinfo32, Sound Device shows it as High definition audio device. Microsoft. The status shows OK. This is the name of the driver, HdAudio.sys

I dont understand why everything seems fine but there's no headphones showing (plus the red light) and then I have no audio what so ever. Thankfully its fine on the Mac side. It's just trial and at this stage, a lot of error!

EDIT.

In System Profiler...

Audio (built in)

Intel High Definition Audio

Audio ID : 34

When I go to Headphone, it just shows Connection : Combination Output

Not sure if any of that makes it any clearer, but I'm assuming at least I know I'm looking for an Intel driver?

woldranger Author

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Aug 29, 2015 10:41 AM in response to Loner T

In that case, the 2 time's I've installed windows, surely it would've gone for the BIOS install option as I wasn't likely to override the installer. I'm installing it from a bootable Windows 10 iso on a dvd....

I do appreciate your replies but you do seem to think I have a little more knowledge in this field than I actually do. For example, "use BCA" - I'm not aux fait with such abbreviations and it just makes things seem a lot more daunting and complicated - so if possible, can you lay it out in plain English for a newbie like myself? Much appreciated.

Also, how would I "verify that is a MBR/BIOS installation by looking BCA Partitioning used"?

Dec 9, 2015 4:29 PM in response to woldranger

Did you ever figure out the issue?

I ran into the same problem with Windows. Everything perfect except the audio. I have tried the realtek and cirrus drivers without any luck. I am confused even more now since I put ubuntu 15.10 64 bit on it. I ran the lspci and it shows the audio as intel corp. NM10/ICH7 High Definition Audio Controller rev 2. The sound works perfectly and when you change it to SPDIF...the red light comes on and then changing back to analog...the optical laser turns off.....just like it should.

Ski-Hike

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Oct 23, 2016 9:10 PM in response to Flexiboy99dk

Hello all,

I have an A1181 mid-2007 macbook 2,1 and after updating to windows 10 from windows 7 (64-bit), I developed the same problem as woldranger. No analog sound from the macbook speakers, no headphone playback device, red optical S/PDIF is always on and works fine when connected via a Toslink cable to my receiver. Everything works normally when booting in lion OS X. I tried your suggestion of running RealtekSetup from BootCamp5.1.5640 to no avail. I also tried downloading then installing the drivers directly from Realtek, as well as running different RealtekSetups (R2.33, R2.79) from other BootCamp versions. At one point a version of the Realtek driver did install, but had an error under the Windows Device Manager saying "This device cannot start (Code 10)."

Any suggestions appreciated. Thank you very much.

woldranger Author

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Aug 22, 2015 4:30 AM in response to Loner T

Thanks for getting in touch, it's good to know that there are people out there willing to give a newbie a hand!

It's the Macbook 2.1 A1181, the specific model is

MB062xx/A

Loner T

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Aug 22, 2015 9:09 AM in response to woldranger

Did you install Windows 10 using EFI or BIOS mode?

woldranger Author

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Aug 22, 2015 9:14 AM in response to Loner T

As far as I know it was efi.

Any idea how to find the specific sound card for these mac's?

woldranger Author

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Aug 22, 2015 11:14 AM in response to woldranger

I looked in System Information in Windows and located the hd audio drivers and they both show Stopped as their status and Manual as their state. Would this be normal?

woldranger Author

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Aug 25, 2015 5:09 AM in response to Loner T

I've already tried the Cirrus drivers that came in that download and nothing has worked for me.

woldranger Author

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Aug 25, 2015 5:19 AM in response to Loner T

It actually shows 2 "Digital Audio (S....) but the last section is just (High Definition Audio Device) there's nothing mentioning Cirrus on mine.

Loner T

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Aug 25, 2015 5:28 AM in response to woldranger

What GPU do you have in your Mac?

woldranger Author

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Aug 25, 2015 5:35 AM in response to Loner T

Back in System Profiler it shows up as a GMA 950

woldranger Author

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Aug 25, 2015 5:58 AM in response to Loner T

Oh, that's not great.

I could give it a go. If it's not going to be possible to have things working this way then I guess I've no option but to try it

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