How to install Windows 8(8.1) on my MacBook Air (mid 2011)

When I try to install Windows 8 in EFI mode, install complete successfuly, but after Windows EFI boot, I haven't  Audio and have basic Video driver. I try to install  native (from BootCamp) drivers for this devices, but Windows don't want to install this drivers.
Please, help me! Thanks!

The proper way to install Windows is thru BootCamp. Although Apple uses many standard components such as Intel's CPUs and Toshiba SSDs, it also uses proprietary components not available to the Wintel market. As such Apple is the only source for drivers and BootCamp is the environment within which they are installed.
If you want to use your MBA solely as a Windows computer you'll need to start over and create the maximum sized BootCamp partition with a minimal Mac partition. That may not be what you want but it is how every happy Windows user I know of has insulted their Mac.

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