Upgrade a 13" Early 2011 MBP to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1

Using MBP Early 2011.

Successfully installed Win10 on my MBP. Boots good.

Jumped into the upgrade without reading the support page first. It was too late when I found out our MBPs do not support win10.

However:

• No bootcamp icon; actually, no Bootcamp Assistant can be found

  which means I can't set the default boot device

• Trackpad does not work as expected
  • No double tapping for right click
  • I haven't discovered how to right click. (help!)
  • Can't tap to click
  • But works ok for normal clicking/dragging
• I'm not sure if it's just me (it could just be me), but the display isn't as sharp as in win8.

Otherwise, my MBP is usable. Just installed steam and tried DOTA2.

You can try to install older drivers using Administrative privileges and compatibility mode set to the original OS of the driver.

I have installed it without any problems. I have also installed Bootcamp 5.1.5621 and I have all the options from inside of it.

The only big major problem is that i have no sound and still didn't manage to find the proper drivers for it.
I have MBP 13" Early 2011

Do you see unknown devices in Device Manager?

I only see the Intel HD Audio with exclamation mark that's not working i have tried all possibilities to search for Intel HM65 chipset drivers even tried the Cirus Logic drivers but those I can't install i get the message that they are not signed drivers

W10 has Driver signature enforcement, which can be relaxed. Please see http://www.howtogeek.com/167723/how-to-disable-driver-signature-verification-on- 64-bit-windows-8.1-so-that-you-can-insta… . You can use the W7/W8 drivers when installed via Administrative Privileges and computability mode set to W7/W8.

I'll give it a try and come back with the result.

Thank you very much

No changes 😟 Sound still doesn't work

Can you check if the W10 installation is EFI/UEFO or BIOS in msinfo32?

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home Single Language

Version 10.0.10240 Build 10240

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name DESKTOP-O799S59

System Manufacturer Apple Inc.

System Model MacBookPro8,1

System Type x64-based PC

System SKU Unsupported

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz, 2701 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.0047.B2A.1506082203, 6/8/2015

SMBIOS Version 2.4

BIOS Mode UEFI

BaseBoard Manufacturer Apple Inc.

BaseBoard Model Not Available

BaseBoard Name Base Board

Platform Role Mobile

Secure Boot State Unsupported

PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible

Windows Directory C:\Windows

System Directory C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.10240.16384"

User Name DESKTOP-O799S59\Me

Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB

Total Physical Memory 7.91 GB

Available Physical Memory 6.65 GB

Total Virtual Memory 9.79 GB

Available Virtual Memory 8.58 GB

Page File Space 1.88 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes

Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes

Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes

Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes

BIOS Mode UEFI

This is the issue for your sound not working, because models prior to Late 2013 do not expose devices properly. Can you backup your current Windows, remove it via BC Assistant and install W10 as a clean installation?

The problem is that i could not install WIndows via BC, i've tried all the possibilities, i get this error and can't get it work.

The way i installed was just by booting from the USB stick.

I have ISO of the windows and an USB Stick 8GB one and the iso is about 3-4gb. I don't have a dvd unit installed anymore.

Do you have any suggestions ?

Thank you very much for you help

Mikerini wrote:

I don't have a dvd unit installed anymore.

This is an issue. Can you temporarily re-install an Optical drive?

From How to identify MacBook Pro models - Apple Support and MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011) - Technical Specifications, the Model Identifier 8,1 is tied to a model with an Optical drive. You can try using an external Optical drive, but it may not work.

Please see the following links

Bootcamp without Optical disc drive

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20584499#post20584499

That's exaclty how I have installed it 1st time, mounting the image and when booting pressing option to boot from usb and installed windows . . . . 😟 it was written EFI

I'll give it another try and if it doesn't work I will try with windows 8.1 but I think it's the same . . . everyone is complaining of no sound issues on windows 8+ .. . mabye there is no fix for my problem

If you use Option key, there should be two options Windows and EFI Boot. Can you choose Windows?