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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?

MacBook, Other OS

Posted on Aug 20, 2015 2:51 PM

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Loner T

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Aug 23, 2015 8:31 PM in response to woldranger

This is not normal. Most likely you have Cirrus drivers. Please try to manually install them and test.

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.

Loner T

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Aug 25, 2015 5:18 AM in response to woldranger

Can you please confirm the following statement for EFI vs BIOS installation?

As far as I know it was efi.

Here is an example...

Your Device Manager should look similar to this.

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

Loner T

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Aug 25, 2015 5:54 AM in response to woldranger

I have a 2008 MBA (1,1) which has a GMA X3100. If you have an EFI Installation, audio is unlikely to work. Are you willing to try a BIOS/MBR installation?

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

Loner T

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Aug 25, 2015 10:08 AM in response to woldranger

Please try the legacy BIOS (non-EFI) method. It is a pain, but that is the best possible solution for your specific Mac.

woldranger Author

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Aug 26, 2015 10:02 AM in response to Loner T

I've spent some time looking for a tutorial to try this but it's all rather confusing. Could you point me to something appropriate for my situation please?

Loner T

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Aug 26, 2015 1:31 PM in response to woldranger

BY default, your Mac will use BIOS/MBR installation. If you choose EFI Boot manually, then it will follow your directions. Use BCA and do not interrupt the installation, which will be a BIOS/MBR installation.

We can verify that is a MBR/BIOS installation by looking BCA Partitioning used.

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"?

Loner T

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Aug 29, 2015 3:07 PM in response to woldranger

BCA = BootCamp Assistant.

From OSX Terminal, post the output of the following Terminal commands

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

The "sudo" commands will prompt for your password, and it will not be echoed back. You may also see a warning about improper use of "sudo" and potential data loss due to "abuse" of the command.

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.

Loner T

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Dec 9, 2015 5:49 PM in response to budboyntn

EFI will not expose Audio properly. Only CSM-BIOS will do it correctly till you get a Late 2013 or later model. The Ubuntu lspci is correct. Windows in EFI (especially W10) is unsupported and unlikely to work. There are no drivers for W10. The Cirrus devices are embedded as you can see in my output on W8.1 in BIOS in a 2012 MBP.

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