Boot Camp 3.1 and updates

I noticed that Mac OSX recently downloaded and installed an update.
How do I check for Boot Camp 3.1 updates and driver updates for Windows 7?
Boot Camp is a Windows program that starts up when Windows starts, with a diamond icon in the taskbar.
If I right-click on the icon, there is no option to Check for Updates. When I click Boot Camp Control Panel, there is no option to check for updates under any of the tabs. Thank you!

This thread is specifically for the MacBook Pro (2008 and Later).
However, I'm cool with moving the thread. Have a good one!
Forgot to mention, good job on the NVIDIA 320M drivers at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11546269 I noticed that is not in the Boot Camp section? It's confusing sometimes.
This is the best computer I've owned since the Atari 1040 ST... it's that good!
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Boot Camp 2.1.self update drivers Links :
ATI : http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
Intel : http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2800& OSFullName=Windows*XP+HomeEdition&lang=eng&strOSs=45&submit=Go!
Nvidia : http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
Realtek : 1 : http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsCheck.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=23 &Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
2 : http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsCheck.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24 &Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
Marvell : http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do
Broadcom : http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem= ob-71351-1&lang=en&cc=us&mode=5&
1. Download & Install sp43742.exe .
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Update Driver...,
Check : Install from a list or specified location (Advanced).
Next> .
Check : Don't search. I will choose the drivers to install.
Next> .
Have Disk...
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OK .
Choose Broadcom 4321AG a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi Adapter (43224/4322AG works also).
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Sounds like something is wrong with your disk. Have you tried cleaning it?
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My experiences/notes:
1. The Boot Camp 3.0 installation automatically removed the Boot Camp 2.1 drivers that it was going to update and then installed the newer 3.0 ones
2. You still can only use the GeForce 9600M GT graphics chipset, i.e. only the 9600M GT shows to windows and appears in the device manager
3. Deferred Procedure Calls (DPC) Latency issues still exist although it doesn't seem like you need to run the Bootcamp.exe on CPU 0 affinity only (Bootcamp.exe = the updated/Boot Camp 3.0 version of KbdMgr.exe)
4. You still can't fully dim the keyboard backlight with the F5 key
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5b. Latest WLAN chip driver => Broadcom (4322AG chipset) Wireless LAN Driver for Microsoft Windows Vista 5.10.91.8 (14 May 2009) = sp43743.exe
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Best of luck to you all and I hope this helps someone, Dingle7
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Hi all,
Here are the links for the latest 'important' drivers:
5a. Latest Nvidia driver for GeForce 9600M GT => 186.81notebook_win7_winvista_64bit_internationalwhql.exe
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
5b. Latest WLAN chip driver => Broadcom (4322AG chipset) Wireless LAN Driver for Microsoft Windows Vista 5.10.91.8 (14 May 2009) = sp43743.exe
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en &cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3872994&swItem=ob-71357-1&mode=5
NOTE: You will need to manually update the drivers in the windows device manager (select 4322AG chipset) because the installer doesn't overwrite the old drivers from Boot Camp
5c. Lateset Realtek High Definition Audio Codec => VistaWin7R231.zip
http://www.realtek.com.tw/DOWNLOADS/
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Win 8 to win 8.1 with boot camp again or to update?

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Unfortunately, Windows (for the first time that I know of) was smart enough to recognize that there was new hardware (the X1600) and it reinstalled the @!#$#-ed X1600 driver without asking me. Now I couldn't reboot without it hanging again.
The final step was that I found that if, instead of Uninstalling, I Disabled the X1600, I can now run using the generic Video Adapter and Windows does not re-enable it.
I hope this helps anyone who has a similar problem, so they don't waste 2 weeks like I did.

Hi Dave,
thanks for these informations.
Before my beloved 2006 iMac went awry and finally bit the dust, I have used the ATI MobilityCatalyst Drivers for XP.
If you're in for another try, here's the link http://support.amd.com/de/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/radeonmob_xp.aspx?typ e=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.10&lang=English
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Boot Camp ****: HAL.DLL and other problems

Okay I am really frustrated, so if I come off like a jerk... well, I don't mean to, but my frustration is going to bleed into the tone of this post. Let me ask you not to reply that I have a bad Windows CD. I've been a gosh darn network administrator for over ten frakking years now, and I successfully use the same bleeping CDROM disk on dozens of other computers all the bleeping time.
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Perhaps you need to use an XP cd with sp2 slipstreamed, install boot camp update 2.1, then SP3.
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Important: Installation of Boot Camp 2.1 is required before installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)

Vista Blue Screen after Successful Boot Camp installation (32 and 64 bit)

OK so there are a number of people with issues relating to the BSoD after a successful (or not) implemetation of Bot Camp and Windows XP and/or Vista. One of the identified problems relates to the NVIDIA GEforce 9600m GT display driver which crashes out AFTER windows performs its update routine.
Having removed and installed the partition (to ensure a clean install each time), the inescapable conclusion is that the NVIDIA driver is to blame for the crash dump, but it is one of the many MS updates that is the root cause of the failure. If you do a clean install of Vista 32 or 64 Ultimate and install the Boot Camp 2.1 (build 1256) and DO NOT allow updates, the system is not only stable, it runs like a train!
I have Contacted AppleCare about this (as my new MBP is only a few days old) and they have not even heard of the problems. NVIDIA have obviously got issues with something as the driver has been updated to a BETA on their web site, but this will not work on a Mac as it cannot seem to find the hardware to allow the update to complete.
If (like me) you have bought an MBP for support issues for both Mac and Windows users, this is a showstopper and one that is about to cause me to ask for my money back. So far, the nice shiny and new MBP is back in its box pending a 140 mile trip back to Exeter from whence it came.
SHARK!

Boot Camp was a response to public challenges at the time to see who could find how to install Windows on a Mac - which is totally okay thing.
Then you want Apple to do more than any normal PC vendor selling a laptop where people have to do things like deal with BIOS, drivers and all the things you have had to deal with, for Windows.
I'm not disagreeing, let alone arguing, I agree that hardware abstraction layer type stuff Apple would need to do. But I don't think Apple needs to do more than get Windows installed. Drivers, AV, and all the stuff that comes with Windows doesn't change. But it should not BSOD when you install something you are told you need.
I wouldn't be surprised though to see Windows 7 eventually support Apple hardware out of the box so to speak.
Cookie cutter answers are part of today's customer experience "level one" is no level at all, but a lot of times - and it takes a lot of work - to translate feedback and problems into "cook book" before you get to the troubleshooting (level 2 and above).
Which is why I read sites like MacIntouch; subscribe to MacFixit (tons of articles on a CD along with shareware). And books.
Nvidia has terrible drivers in OS X on the Mac Pro (workstation) while ATI has had very good drivers and OpenGL support.
I prefer to have more choice and freedom when it comes to drivers. As for engineering and how things get qualified (use to see even SCSI hard drives had to be qualified for both the OS; the controller to be used; driver version; firmware; etc).
What I see is the first shipped BIOS/EFI firmware on any device or system is not the one you want.
Back in the 70's I was introduced to "bleeding edge" but we would get premiere on-site support if we were willing to install, adopt, some new IBM service, software/hardware. And sometimes we were there on Sunday on holiday weekends.
One person just could NOT after doing everything under the sun, get Adobe CS4 to install on their new $5000 Mac Pro 2009. Got a new system, worked perfectly.
In 2008 Early Mac Pro, most all systems would freeze on wake from sleep. Took two months before an EFI update was issued that cured the problem. There is/was also a problem with "inrush current" and PSU.
I had Blue Screen with Vista. Repeatedly.
At first I thought it was a new MICROSOFT 4000 keyboard.
Later I wondered if it was my Apple OEM Nvida 7300GT (and some are failing but it worked in OS X) so I bought 2nd, a PC 8600GTS.
And pull 3rd party PCI Express controllers (FW800, SATA 1x, SATA 8x cards).
Came away and thought "oh, it was the 3rd party card" when that seemed to work.
Around the same time I had bought a new WD Caviar 750GB SATA drive.
It was that drive that would cause problems with Vista after the install.
I thought it was something in Microsoft Windows Update that was causing my personal ****, not my equipment. And MS for their drivers. Somebody else's.
And mind you, I would go through install half a dozen times, try installing Boot Camp before updates, after updates, not at all, add AV software.
I finally -- after a full year -- learned a lot (don't learn from things just working and I still say it has always been "Plug and Pray" PnP ) things work. I know the frustration and aggravation and the wish that things were different somehow.
The BSODs that I got were not from Apple Boot Camp. I even ran my system w/o Boot Camp for six months. And this time, with Win7, everything worked fine, wake, sleep, networking, no need for Apple drivers. At all.
I hang out on a forum where people build their own, X58 board, Intel Core i7, eVGA graphics. And how to get even DDR3 to work, and then how to get the most out of and push it to the extreme, then throttle back a notch.
The nice thing about that is you learn from it, like you do from racing and sports, to build a better mousetrap.
Nvidia is bleeding. Even as they and ATI want to stay on leading edge. Intel is contracting (even as they have their best cpu technology ever coming out) and costs that should go into R&D may be harder to "justify" or all the prototype programmers engineers and testing labs. Everything is more commoditized than ever.
Bottom line: I have Leopard 10.5.6. It has Boot Camp 2.1.2 version, later than the 2.1 download. And there has not been a single update posted online. But my original Leopard DVD 10.5.0 has the SAME contents packaged as 2.0 as were in the 1.4 Beta. I spend $129 for a new DVD to get the latest drivers. Make sense?? of course not.
Oh, and my Mac with 64-bit hardware, cpu, the EFI BIOS is 32-bit so no official support from Apple to install BC 2.1.2 or use Vista 64-bit. Snow Leopard will be 64-bit kernel, require and enforce 64-bit drivers. Should be interesting. Because technically, and logic, would say I don't have a true 64-bit BIOS environment.
Got an iMac? not supported with 64-bit. MacBook 2008 had 64-bit support, but not the "Late 2008" there you need MacBook Pro. And yet everyone wants to address more than 2GB (Apple EFI32 allows access to 3.3GB on some, 1.9GB on others, and in my Mac Pro? limited to 1.9GB memory in Windows.... so you know I don't want to run a Xeon workstation in Windows 32-bit.

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"The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program to be upgraded exists on your computer and that you have the correct upgrade patch."
This is frustrating because I DO have Boot Camp 3.1.0 installed, which I assume is the version needed to upgrade, and Boot Camp IS installed. I also downloaded the 32-bit version as that is the version of Windows 7 I have, and just for jollies I tried the 64-bit version but that yielded the same error.
What am I doing wrong here? How can I install this patch? I would very much like to be able to have functional headphones. Thanks in advance.

Ok, so I installed drivers from the system restore disks that came with my laptop, and the error message changed, still doesn't work, but progress is good, right?
Now it says:
"The installed product does not match the installation source(s). Until a matching source is provided or the installed product and source are synchronized, this action can not be performed.
Contact your administrator or product vendor for assistance. If there is a matching installation source, type it below or click Browse to locate it"
Now, what on earth does that mean? In the test box, the default path is "C:\ProgramData\Apple\Installer Cache\Boot Camp 3.0.0\", which doesn't exist on my computer. When I click "browse" it lets me look for a .msi file, which I cannot find and do not know where to look for.
If I click OK, another error pops up saying:
"The file 'D:\Boot Camo\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp.msi' is not a valid installtion package for the product Boot Camp Services. Try to find the installtion package 'BootCamp.msi' in a folder from which you can install Boot Camp Services"
Please, please, please, if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this, Iwould be very obliged. Thanks again in advance!

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I did all the updates as a good Apple user now I find I cannot boot up my Windows disc. When I restart computer holding option key the screen goes white and nothing happens. What should I do?

Something appears to have not installed correctly when the "updates" were installed. Can you tell me which updates did you installed before the issues began? Was Windows already working normally prior to the updates? By the way, which version of windows did you install?
Meanwhile see if you can do the following:
right after you hear the startup sound press and hold the ALT (Option) key until a menu appears on the screen.
It should let you choose between Mac OS and Windows.
Choose Mac OS and press Enter or click the little arrow below it to start into Mac OS.
Once you are in Mac OS choose System Preferences from the Apple Menu and go to Startup Disk. Choose your Mac OS volume there to make your computer auto start from that volume next time.
Close the menu again and you are done.
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Axel F.

So who here has Boot Camp fully up and working in Windows 7 Beta 7077 x64 ?

I've seen lots of guides and everything for installing Windows 7 on apple laptops but they are all very general and do not address this specific issue.
Personally I've had no problems whatsoever with Windows 7 Beta up until build 7068, but after upgrading to build 7077, I've noticed that despite the Kbdmgr.exe process still running in the background, there's no icon in the system tray.
Because the bootcamp application isn't working properly I cannot configure my trackpad's multitouch features, nor use any of the keyboard shortcuts like changing volume or screen brightness.
Looking in device manager it looks like the drivers are all there and installed, I still see "Apple multi-touch mouse" or whatever its called, as well as the webcam etc (which works), but its simply the boot camp software.
So, has anyone actually got this specific configuration working? Also remember this is 64-bit not 32-bit.

Upgrade or clean install?
Microsoft blocks installing Apple services with 7077. And whenever you want to install drivers, use the Troubleshoot Compatibility (control + click).
I don't have a laptop to try with. My guess, and only a guess, is that any drivers will come with 7 and from Microsoft Windows Update. Either pre-install download from the internet as part of the install, or from normal install, or an update (optional updates available). Lastely, sometimes I've seen those "Alert notices" with links to Intel and other drivers (though even these now seem to be getting included).
While 7077 runs well, it is unreleased and not a supported build, RC is still weeks away, and some things that worked before don't now. 7068 seemed better than 7000 public beta, but I had more than a couple problems. I did clean install, and have kept 3rd party drivers to a minimum. Applications as well. And nothing from Apple. iTunes 8.1.1 x64 wiped out my optical drives (one internal, one external) in 7068 and never was able even after trying to uninstall "GEAR" drivers. So I'm not tempting fate again.
If May 5 is RC day, I'd just hold out if you can.

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