Santa Rosa Macbook Pro and Windows 7 64-bit

[Link00seven]

Hello all,

I have a Macbook Pro 15" Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz Santa Rosa (July 2007 model) and I was just wondering if it would be possible to use the 64-bit version of Windows 7. When I tried the Beta & RC's I had no problems with 32-bit but I could never get drivers to work for 64-bit and I was wondering if drivers now exist, or will they exist once Apple "officially" updates BootCamp to support Windows 7.

Thanks!

 

[Eidorian]

I've been running the 64-bit RTM using the BootCamp 3.0 drivers. You need to elevate the BootCamp64.msi from a command prompt though.

 

[gugucom]

There may be more problems with Seven-64. The MBP has EFI32 and that will probably require Jowie's tweak for the ISO to install.

Bootcamp64.msi should be made compatible and user account control may have to be disactivated and rebooted.

 

[Link00seven]

Ahh okay I remember having to use Jowie's tweak when I installed the 64-bit RC.

Where are the Bootcamp 3 drivers located? On my Snow Leopard disk or can they be downloaded from Apple? What do you mean by "elevate" the BootCamp64.msi?

 

[webgoat]

the only place apple provides the 3.0 drivers is on the install disc

and by elevate i assume he means running command prompt as an admin and running BootCamp64.msi

 

[Eidorian]

The installer should work just fine on the Macbook Pro without any workarounds. My MacBook is unsupported by Apple under 64-bit Windows but I know that is fully capable in reality.

They must have wanted me to spend more money on the MacBook Pro. The Santa Rosa and later based notebook hardware is uses EFI64.

 

[velocityg4]

Even if bootcamp will not run to install the drivers you should be able to navigate through the files and install the drivers manually. That is what I did with my 2007 Macbook. Most functionality should be available straight from installing Windows.

If you don't know which drivers to install. Just run all the installers. Windows will only use the drivers that are actually compatible with the hardware on your computer.

Everything seems to work except two finger scrolling and right click so I will need to find a workaround for that.

 

[powz]

Wow, I thought I was the only one trying to run Win 7 64 bit on the "ancient" SR MBP!

For those who got Boot Camp 3 working, could you share the exact steps? I ran BC 3 but there were some unsigned drivers that never installed...and then when I restarted Windows there would be an error and all the drivers would be rolled back. I did get Boot Camp 2.01 and 2.1 but want to latest BC 3 drivers.

Also, has anyone else found the audio drivers pretty weak? I have to crank up my speakers to full volume to even hear anything.

and by elevate i assume he means running command prompt as an admin and running BootCamp64.msi

Could you provide a step-by-step?

Thanks for any help!

 

[webgoat]

Could you provide a step-by-step?
Thanks for any help!

right click on command prompt and select run as administrator then enter these 3 commands (change the first line with the appropriate letter if your optical drive is mapped with a different letter than D: )

cd /d D:

cd Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple

BootCamp64.msi

 

[velocityg4]

right click on command prompt and select run as administrator then enter these 3 commands (change the first line with the appropriate letter if your optical drive is mapped with a different letter than D: )

cd /d D:

cd Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple

BootCamp64.msi

I'm going to try that on my Macbook. Or is two finger click and scrolling not supported in Windows 7 from the current drivers?

 

[Eidorian]

I'm going to try that on my Macbook. Or is two finger click and scrolling not supported in Windows 7 from the current drivers?

It works on my Macbook Santa Rosa just fine. I had to run the installer using an elevated command prompt though.

webgoat was so kind as to post the instructions.

 

[powz]

Thanks, webgoat! I'll try that.

 

[velocityg4]

I can confirm this works on a late 2006 Core 2 Duo White Macbook running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium with the Snow Leopard Bootcamp drivers.

 

[blazerdude20]

right click on command prompt and select run as administrator then enter these 3 commands (change the first line with the appropriate letter if your optical drive is mapped with a different letter than D: )

cd /d D:

cd Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple

BootCamp64.msi

dude you're a savior! i just did this on my early 2009 macbook (2ghz, 2gb ram) and now it runs windows 7 64bit great. sound works, track pad, gestures... sweet!

oh and if you cant get right click working in windows, just download this file: http://support.apple.com/downloads/Multi_Touch_Trackpad_Update_1_1_for_Windows

it works even though it doesn't list w7