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    new macbook and bootcamp help

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by pillow1313, Nov 26, 2008.

  1. pillow1313

    pillow1313 Notebook Geek

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    I have the new aluminum macbook, and i was able to install windows xp on it. My question is where are the drivers? I have tried the drivers from the leopard dvd's that came with the macbook, and i even tried the the bootcamp update that was on apple's website, but ethernet, vga (the gpu), wireless, audio, (speakers ect), and other things dont work. Now i went to the apple store and they just looked at me like i was crazy, at first they thought i was asking them if they were going to put xp on my notebook for me. I thought it was easy to run windows on macs.
     
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    Tell us how you installed the Boot Camp drivers from the Leopard DVD.
     
    Budding, Nov 26, 2008
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    lixuelai Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    I remember the only driver that did not work was the Ethernet driver. That was because of XP Service Pack 3. Just download the latest Nvidia Ethernet driver.

    For the rest all you do is install via the exe on the disk or just have it autorun.
     
    lixuelai, Nov 26, 2008
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    thats what it says on the apple website, i put the leopard disks that came with the macbook in after i installed xp, and drivers were installed i even tried the update from apples website, but they are all drivers for the old macbooks.
     
    pillow1313, Nov 26, 2008
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    you have the new macbook (aluminum/late 08).
     
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    Used to have it. Did not like the screen so I sold it to my roommate.
     
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    on mine when i use the drivers that came off the leopard discs and the update, several things dont work, but i think i have found the correct drivers off of nvidias website, now just need to find the correct audio driver.
     
    pillow1313, Nov 26, 2008
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