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Boot Camp 3.1 for Windows 7 is here

tslewis said:
Yeo ive been runing 64 bit Windows 8 ultimate for sevral months now on late 2008 unibody. I was using BC3.0. Should I upgarde or can I upgrade to 3.1? Do I need to install BC3.1 from SL and then reinstall Win 7?
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I'm sure you meant Windows 7. :)

After installing BC 3.0 on my MacBook I easily installed the upgrade. Is it worth it? I dunno. 2.1.2 worked fine for me. 3.0 seemed to work fine, and now 3.1 is working fine. Not sure what is being fixed, but you shouldn't have any issue with the upgrade.
 
after upgrading to 3.1 the audio on my imac 24" is still of a poor quality. can anyone help. the music sounds nothing like it does through os x. the driver date is exactly the same as before.
 
No Change with Boot Camp 3.1

Just installed the Boot Camp 3.1 update on the latest MBP 13" (late 2009) on Windows 7 - 64 bit.
I still have the red light in the audio out jack and no sound form built-in speakers.

Why? :mad:
 
hamesh said:
after upgrading to 3.1 the audio on my imac 24" is still of a poor quality. can anyone help. the music sounds nothing like it does through os x. the driver date is exactly the same as before.
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Right-click on the sound icon next to the clock --> Playback devices. Double click on "Speakers", click on the "Enhancements" tab, scroll down and check "Virtual Surround" and "Equalizer" which you will set to Rock. Click Apply and things should be much better.

I always do this with any Vista/Win7 installation because I totally know what you mean when you say "muffled". Sound in OS X seems so much clearer for some reason. Hopefully this makes things sound a little more like OS X. It's not a perfect solution by any means, but it sounds much better than the default.
 
flopticalcube said:
Apple Software Update keeps downloading 3.1 for me even after I install. Anyone else seen this?
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Check "About Boot Camp" by right clicking the Boot Camp systray icon, and check your version of boot camp. If Software Update keeps offering it to you, it thinks you still haven't updated. It should be (after the update) Boot Camp 3.1, build 2185 (click on the version number for that).

If everything is correct and you're still getting it from ASU, I believe you can tell ASU to not show you a specific update any more.
 
Unseelie23 said:
Check "About Boot Camp" by right clicking the Boot Camp systray icon, and check your version of boot camp. If Software Update keeps offering it to you, it thinks you still haven't updated. It should be (after the update) Boot Camp 3.1, build 2185 (click on the version number for that).

If everything is correct and you're still getting it from ASU, I believe you can tell ASU to not show you a specific update any more.
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
 
Zak Attack said:
Just installed the Boot Camp 3.1 update on the latest MBP 13" (late 2009) on Windows 7 - 64 bit.
I still have the red light in the audio out jack and no sound form built-in speakers.

Why? :mad:
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Because the Cirrus audio driver didn't install for some reason. That's the behavior I'd expect in Vista and Windows 7 if it were still using the Microsoft inbox drivers. You may want to contact applecare, because I don't think cirrus offers their windows drivers for apple hardware on their website.
 
JBalls said:
Thanks for the help.

I went ahead and installed Bootcamp 3.1 - the red LED is gone, the mic now finally works and everything else appears to be working in order.

The only problem is the low audio output issue has returned for me. I had previously been using a custom driver that someone created that boosted audio levels closer to that of what you would hear using OSX... I'm sure some readers here used it too. I tried re-install that driver on top of the one provided with Bootcamp 3.1, and while it worked to restore the audio to louder levels, it once again disabled the mic. So now im hoping someone can create another custom driver based on this new official driver and fix this low audio output problem that apple still won't attend to themselves...
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this drives me nuts also never knew there was a custom driver

anyone know where i get it to test
 
BoyRacer said:
I have a 20-inch aluminum iMac (Mid 2007). Windows 7 Professional is installed via BootCamp 3.1.

SOund from the iMac's built-in speakers is distorted or garbled. The Windows 7 startup sound, for example, is accompanied by a combination low-level crackling and hissing sound. Sounds in Halo 2 suffer from the same distortion.

I assumed this problem was due to the BootCamp drivers that shipped with Snow Leopard but having just updated to BootCamp 3.1 I find that the distortion persists.

Sound is clear and perfect on the iMac when booted into Snow Leopard.

Anyone else experiencing this issue?
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I have the same problem on my 24" late 2008 imac. it is really starting to annoy me as the whole gaming experience is ruined with the poor sound quality and watching sky player sucks. have you found a solution?
 
hamesh said:
I have the same problem on my 24" late 2008 imac. it is really starting to annoy me as the whole gaming experience is ruined with the poor sound quality and watching sky player sucks. have you found a solution?
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Yep, same here. And it definitely is caused by the bc 3.0 drivers since the one that come with windows 7 sound just fine.
 
Now this is starting to piss me off! :mad:

I have a Mac Pro 2009 with Ati 4870. I used to run the 64-bit Win7 RC. I couldn't install Boot Camp because after the install Win7 would crash to BSOD after approximately less than a minute of use - every time. So I had to re-install Windows and install drivers separately and had no Boot Camp functionality.

Now I have the final Win7 Ultimate, I install Boot Camp 3.0 and update to 3.1. Still the same problem! Any idea what's messing up my MP? It's recent model so surely it should work! What can I do to fix it?
 
HHarm said:
Now this is starting to piss me off! :mad:

I have a Mac Pro 2009 with Ati 4870. I used to run the 64-bit Win7 RC. I couldn't install Boot Camp because after the install Win7 would crash to BSOD after approximately less than a minute of use - every time. So I had to re-install Windows and install drivers separately and had no Boot Camp functionality.

Now I have the final Win7 Ultimate, I install Boot Camp 3.0 and update to 3.1. Still the same problem! Any idea what's messing up my MP? It's recent model so surely it should work! What can I do to fix it?
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Hmm. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate on my first gen Mac Pro with ATI 4870. No problems at all here. For an unsupported machine, mine should be running worse than yours.
 
TheSpaz said:
Hmm. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate on my first gen Mac Pro with ATI 4870. No problems at all here. For an unsupported machine, mine should be running worse than yours.
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I'm running it on a first gen Mac Pro with a 4870 as well and have seen 2 blue screen issues.

1 because my primary drive is a software raid and the apple HFS driver didn't like that at all, causing a blue screen.

The other happened after I installed the boot camp 3.1 update and I would get a crash regarding "Cache_Manager". I did a system restore in safe mode and all is back to normal.

Boot camp is simply a partitioning tool and a package of drivers from Apple. It isn't necessary to run Windows as long as you have done what you said and installed the drivers yourself for the hardware. The only functionality you may lose is the ability to read HFS volumes.
 
bpd115 said:
I'm running it on a first gen Mac Pro with a 4870 as well and have seen 2 blue screen issues.

1 because my primary drive is a software raid and the apple HFS driver didn't like that at all, causing a blue screen.

The other happened after I installed the boot camp 3.1 update and I would get a crash regarding "Cache_Manager". I did a system restore in safe mode and all is back to normal.

Boot camp is simply a partitioning tool and a package of drivers from Apple. It isn't necessary to run Windows as long as you have done what you said and installed the drivers yourself for the hardware. The only functionality you may lose is the ability to read HFS volumes.
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I installed the official Boot Camp 3.0 and 3.1 drivers.
 
bpd115 said:
1 because my primary drive is a software raid and the apple HFS driver didn't like that at all, causing a blue screen.
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Maybe it's the raid that's causing the crashes. I have 2 SSDs in rai0 for OSX and a separate drive for Win7.

And yes I guess I'm not missing much, just the driver updates and the ability to choose wether to reboot to OSX or Win7.
 
HHarm said:
Maybe it's the raid that's causing the crashes. I have 2 SSDs in rai0 for OSX and a separate drive for Win7.

And yes I guess I'm not missing much, just the driver updates and the ability to choose wether to reboot to OSX or Win7.
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I have win 7 installed on a partitioned drive, half is HFS and the other half is NTFS. The drive is separate from my raid OSX drive.

On the OSX side, the NTFS partition doesn't mount at all...something with the partition table and OSX thinking it's a fat32 drive.

On the Windows side, I was blue screening until I took out the Apple HFS driver.

On my Macbook Pro, I have a small windows partition that can be read in OSX and on the Windows side the HFS driver works fine.
 
hamesh said:
I have the same problem on my 24" late 2008 imac. it is really starting to annoy me as the whole gaming experience is ruined with the poor sound quality and watching sky player sucks. have you found a solution?
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Use explore to explore into your MAC OS 10.5 DISK and use the realtek.exe to install those drivers in the Bootcamp/drivers folder. This will revert the audio drivers back to a working version and both your sound and MIC will work. for the MIC only boost it by +10 db this seemed optimal for me.
 
I did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit version) from Vista 64 on my 2007 Mac Pro and it is running fine on my non-compatible machine. The only issue is the aluminum USB keyboard eject, dimmer, and media keys. I did not install boot camp 3.0 or try to install 3.1, since everything I need works OK- except for the Mac specific keyboard keys.

Is there a way to extract the 3.1 64bit keyboard drivers or download them from somewhere to get the mac keys working?
 
Og Oggilby said:
I did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit version) from Vista 64 on my 2007 Mac Pro and it is running fine on my non-compatible machine. The only issue is the aluminum USB keyboard eject, dimmer, and media keys. I did not install boot camp 3.0 or try to install 3.1, since everything I need works OK- except for the Mac specific keyboard keys.

Is there a way to extract the 3.1 64bit keyboard drivers or download them from somewhere to get the mac keys working?
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Why don't you just install boot camp 3.0 then the 3.2 update?
 
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