I'm setting up my MacBook Air for a Windows-only boot setup. This was easy enough. It already had rEFIt on it, I just connected a Windows 7 boot thumb drive, and away I went.
However, it seems Apple does not let you download Bootcamp drivers outside of their assistant tool. Reinstalling OS X just for the drivers is ridiculous.
This laptop no longer has OS X on it at all. How do I get the required drivers? I cannot find them anywhere on Apple's support pages.
Every other manufacturer has their drivers available for download.
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How do I download the Windows drivers for my 2010 MacBook Air without the BootCamp Assistant?
Yes, It is possible to download the Bootcamp drivers outside of the Bootcamp tool:
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timothy-sutton's answer will make your life so much easier, go there first
For Windows 7 through 10, Apple have published a table of 'which download you need for which model' at https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634. Win 7 download might work for Vista.
For WinXP, see robmathers' answer.
The hard way which follows here, taken from http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p682/download-bootcamp-drivers is your fallback if you want or need to work it from scratch.
Download from Apple the http://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog file. Don’t double-click it.
Open the index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog file in a text editor or word processor.
Search for each occurrence — as at August 2012 there were 6 — of BootCampESD.pkg. For instance, the one I needed is http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/33/54/041-2011/pRtCDYcWShMLxFggy3TzFzmfnnWQNFQBfJ/BootCampESD.pkg
Notice in each such URL, the /041-2011/ or similar /041-XXXXX/ bit of it.
Below each such occurrence, notice the URL for a file with the same 041-XXXXX in it and ending in English.dist, e.g. 041-2011.English.dist
Paste the URL for each such English.dist file into your browser and open that url. Here’s a list of them:
Search for the Model Identifier for your Mac. For instance MacBookPro5,2 or Macmini4,1.
How do you know your Model Identifier? Open System Information, and look in the Hardware Overview section. i.e. click Apple menu -> About this Mac -> More Info… -> Report -> Hardware -> and now read down the Hardware Overview looking for “Model Identifier:”
Having found your 041-XXXXX number, download the BootCampESD.pkg url that has your number in it. Again, here’s a list of them:
Be patient as it’s probably 600MB.
Once your pkg is downloaded, double click it and install to a folder on your hard drive so you know where to find it.
The folder contains a nest of folders, the last of which contains a dmg disk image file. Double click to open. Voila. Here are your Windows installer files.
Copy them to a USB drive, or a burnable CD. It’s still 660MB or more, so it’s a full CD worth of burning time.
Done. You can now proceed with Boot Camp assistant Windows installation.
source: http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p824/bootcamp-drivers-direct-download-of-bootcampesd-pkg . The page was aimed at people struggling with BootCamp, but either way, it gets you to the BootCamp.pkg file, which contains the drivers.
You still need open the OS X installer pkg file to get the the contents out, and to open a DMG file. If you are already in Windows, 7-zip will open it: http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p860/opening-a-bootcamp-driver-download-on-windows-7-or-8-with-7-zip
Chris F CarrollChris F Carroll
I have written a tool that helps me deploy Boot Camp in an organization where we manage a dual-boot lab environment, and one of its features is that it can download the driver package for arbitrary models:
Either git clone or download an archive of the repo, then within the root of the repo (using an iMac15,1 here as an example):
./brigadier --model iMac15,1
The --model option can be omitted and it will download the latest version for the current model. In cases where multiple installers exist on Apple's software update server, you specify an alternate package.
It runs on both OS X and Windows. For Windows I provide a compiled exe so that a Python installation isn't required.
Timothy SuttonTimothy Sutton
Try this: Apple DL1443: Boot Camp Software Update 3.3 for Windows. It's called an update, but I suspect it doesn't require any pre-existing installed drivers.
That said, it's probably worth your while to keep a minimal OS X install, even if it's just on a spare external drive (you could probably get away with a 16 GB USB drive even). It gives you a good recovery option if anything goes wrong, and it also gives you a way to get the occasional firmware updates, which you can't install from Windows.
P.S. Perhaps I'm a bit of a 'paranoid ready-for-the-end-of-the-world' type, but anyway you look at it (or me) - I wouldn't recommend trusting third party downloads of drivers, unless you have the inside scoop on what goes into making them (which you don't). Why?
They are not responsible to you for supporting issues that occur, and they COULD contain malicious code.
user1809836user1809836
Found a quicker answer for myself... I figured out that only the URL to the pkg is HTTP. So I just start the download with Wireshark capture active, and use the 'follow TCP stream' option to get the URL when I see an IP address show up lots of times during the download. Add host and URL together and you have your Mac's specific URL.
Daniel G GutierrezDaniel G Gutierrez
This 'Apple DL1443: Boot Camp Software Update 3.3 for Windows' is definitely the required Update. I have a 2010 Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard (10.6.8) installed and couldn't get the right Boot Camp upgrade using any of the Apple download software from within the bootcamp Application.After installing this Update/Upgrade suddenly all of the required drivers appeared in the Windows 'Device manager' and everything started working perfectly
Michael BourkeMichael Bourke
A link to a reference table of which download is intended for which Mac is provided in the first paragraph of each download page.
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I recently installed Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011). I installed the drivers I could find from the internet (I installed this package https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1721?locale=en_GB) and everything is working fine (kind of very bad performance) but the sound. I can't get it to work, the speaker in the menubar (in windows) shows a red cross and when I hover the mouse over it it says: No Audio output device installed. In Device Manager, the internal speaker appears but it displays an initialization error (code 10). I wiped macOS during installation so I have no access to it (or to recovery mode). Please Help.
Jacob SofferJacob Soffer
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For anyone stumbling upon this thread, some answers here are misleading.You can install Win10 on a Late 2011 Macbook Pro.
But when you install it in EFI mode, you will have problems with sound - this can't be solved with drivers, as older (pre-2013) Macbook UEFI will simply not expose the sound card interface to Windows. You will also encounter problems with discrete graphics driver (eg. you can't use hardware acceleration or adjust screen brightness).
The easiest way to get it to work is to reinstall Win 10 in Legacy/BIOS/Hybrid MBR mode that Bootcamp offers. This is the best guide on how to do this: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/3rzxd5/guide_windows_10_bootcamp_on_unsupported_macs/
Quick workarounds:
use Bluetooth speakers/headset
Use a USB audio dongle
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They will work independently of the sound card.
poisonborzpoisonborz
If anyone is still interested I have found the solution for audio on MBP 2011 Windows 10 UEFI installs - it has taken me 4 years to figure out. I was given the answer from a tutorial only adjacently related -here:
essentially what we knew was that windows didn't 'see' the correct audio devices when booted in pure efi-
The part that was frustrating to me was that many users like myself have lots of UEFI installs on their 2011 MBP and those OS's have no problem 'seeing' the HD audio controller -
So what was windows doing different?
I had messed around with mm commands in a UEFI shell (The shell provided in the rEFIt package) to no avail*
I had tried to pass SETPCI commands from grub into Windows 10- no luck*
A quote from the link above got my brain spinning
'A Windows system's DSDT table root bridge definition (ACPI PNP0A08 or PNP0A03) is usually confined to a reserved 32-bit space (under 4GB) budgeted to be large enough to host the notebook's PCIe devices. A watermark TOLUD value is then set and locked in the system firmware. Windows OS honors the root bridge definition and will allocate PCIe devices within it. macOS ignores the root bridge constraints as too does Linux when booted with the 'pci=noCRS' parameter. Neither of those OS require a DSDT override and can allocate freely in the huge 64-bit PCIe address space'
So Windows 'honors' the root bridge and OSX and linux disregard it --hmmm interesting.
As someone who also deals in hackintoshes I am very aware of DSDT's and how editing them can help get OSX running on home brew PC hardware- I had played around with installing Clover (the UEFI bootloader almost synonymous with Hackintoshes) on USB thumb drives and putting the DSDT from my MBP 2011 in the /Clover/ACPI/Windows folder - still nothing-- I thought that pointing windows to a DSDT would be enough.......
A side note is that there are people who have 'bricked' their real Macs when using clover, I have never had that issue personally (a sub-link in the link above describes such a situation)*
If you follow the guide and make a modified DSDT (one that add 'qwords' to the dwords section) you can test it in two ways-
I used Maciasl to extract and edit my DSDT to add a 'Qword' section - I placed the DSDT in two locations /EFI/Clover/ACPI/Patched [not sure if that one matters] & /EFI/Clover/ACPI/Windows
holding ALT/option during bootup I selected 'EFI Boot' from the USB clover and booted into Clover
for the exact Clover configuration send me a message
After booting into windows the sound card was immediately working (this was because I had installed the cirrus logic drivers from bootcamp 4) - the display audio driver in device manager had an exclamation point but I was able to install the display audio driver from intel's driver support for the i7 2470m CPU in this machine-
I also looked at device manager via 'by resources' and saw that a new entry 'Large memory with an address range appeared
And low and behold the address range for the 'large memory section' contained the range for the hd audio controller
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I then wanted to see if the method described in the initial link posted above where you force that memory map into the registry and turn on 'test signing' worked --
it did, which allowed me to boot directly into windows without the help of clover --
*NOTE: when I tested the registry method I skipped the first few steps since I already had a modified DSDT- I did need to create the 'C:dsdt folder and extract the windows binaries to that folder - but I did not use their acpi dump nor compiler (I check for errors and compiled my dsdt in Maciasl in OSX)
I would gladly go more in depth but I doubt there are many more who need this information- just glad to have figured it out without the BIOS emulation of bootcamp- going to test this method on other 'pre 2013' Macs with non complient UEFI bios'
thisguyiknowthisguyiknow
Read the webpage you downloaded the support software from more carefully.
Note: If you are using one of the Macs listed below, you should download Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621 instead:
MacBook Pro (13-inch,15-inch & 17-inch Late 2011)
Try downloading and installing Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621 and that should fix your problem.
I would check out this link here. Use Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp
Here's the Compatibility Charts for Windows 7.
The MacBook Pro Late 2011 is not listed on the Windows 10 compatibility charts.
**But really, here's the guide for installing and setting up Windows on a Mac support.apple.com/en-us/HT204923 support.apple com/en-us/HT204923 **
I did also poke around and found this guide for installing it sans bootcamp fgimian.github io/blog/2016/03/12/installing-windows-10-on-a-mac-without-bootcamp . But, actually, it's really a guide to doing everything manually past downloading Bootcamp from Apple.
I feel like you need to do this on your own, or an near identical machine. I'm guessing it downloads the specific driver package for your exact machine model.
Had to ruin some of the links here since I don't have enough reputation.
Sorry. :(
Jonathan.WeinbergJonathan.Weinberg
I fixed the problem on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011).
1.Download BootCamp6.
2.Run as administrator on the win10 command line :
sage bytesage byte
You just have to delete the audio file of realtek from bootcamp and make the install this solution works for me.
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