Bootcamp 2.1 updater = kiss of death to Vista32

Everything was running well with a Vista32 Premium install I did yesterday until I ran the Bootcamp 2.1 updater. Ethernet then stopped working, sound became unstable, and the CPU would stay pegged at 100%
As a result, the laptop felt like it was going to burst into flames.
I've wiped it and will start from scratch again today.
Anyone else see this weirdness?
John

Hi. Yesterday I upgraded my Touch to 3.01.
NOW IT HAS A WHITE SCREEN. I HOPE IT SOLVES ITSELF!! ANY ADVISE?

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ONe 3 different occasions now when I select settings the iPhone 3G will totally freeze up. This happened once with my first iPhone 3G so I took it back and got another. At the time I did not know about the special reset (described below). twice now I experienced freeze up when selecting settings. Unfortunately all 3 times I was on the road away from my computer. This is a major headache and causes loss of ones cell phone as well. The latest freeze up happened about 4 hours after I installed 2.01!!
The only way I have figured out how to recover is to do a special reset while the iPhone is attached via USB cable to your computer. If you experience freeze up most likely the iPhone will not bootup. Trying to reboot for hours will for some reason cause the battery to get hot and may cause further damage. Also foget hoping that the iPhone will mount in this condition.
Do this, once you have attached your iPhone to your computer do press the sleep / wake button while also howding down the home button. Once the Apple logo comes up release the sleep / wake button immediately and continue hoding down the home button for another 10 - 15 seconds. At this point the iPhone will mount and you can do a restore. If you have not gone through the agony of waiting for the backup every time and instead stopped the restore you will get a restore corrupt message and you must set up the iPhone as "new".
I am a proud Apple user since the days of the Apple 2e (1984). I am sorry to say that I am a little disappointed in Apple rolling out the 2.0 software and 3G at the same time. So far this has caused me to be without a phone for 3 full days, Not a good thing when I must keep tabs on my ailing 88 year old dad.
OK, enough of the rant. I would suggest not at all seleting settings while away from your computer, this may be dangerous to your health until Apple corrects this problem. I would be VERY CURIOUS to hear of anyone else having this problem. After all this happened to me on two different iPhone 3G's now. One of those iPhones was only 2 days old.
Thanks for any comments
Ken

By any chance did you have an app update in progress when you went into the settings?
I've had this kiss of death issue and proved it (painfully) by recreating it today.
Steps I did that caused repeatable KoD:
1) Went into App Store while on home wireless network
2) Check for updates
3) Select an update
4) Start update process
5) Update runs for a bit
6) Select the "Settings" icon
7) KoD
You now are in the "White Apple logo of Death" experience. Your phone will continue in this mode while the battery gets incredibly hot.
Note: reason I was going in to settings was to extend the auto lock timeout so I wouldn't have to keep touching the screen etc. to keep it awake so the app update could complete.
If you are not near your computer, you're hosed. Your best bet is to press sleep home and just as the phone goes to reboot let go the buttons and let it turn off.
If you are near your computer use the connection process documented in the previous post (reboot, continue to hold the home button, connect iPhone to computer wait for usb cable picture to appear on iphone screen and begin the restore process)
I hope they fix this soon. This is very un-Apple.
Rich

Bootcamp 3.1 update results in no audio output device installed

After installing the bootcamp 3.1 update instead of getting improved/fixed audio I currently do not have any audio in windows vista 64 bit home premium. Which is to say the least quite annoying. Now i do know i have the cirrus logic audio chipset which was detected correctly in BC 3.0 however the microphone was not working. Currently no sound is working at all.
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Regards,
Stefan

I think this is the driver you'll need. Others have reported that their Cirrus Audio functionality was restored with it.
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Bootcamp 3.1 update for Windows XP pro 32bit

Hi peoples.
I got my imac 24" from late 2008.
I've installed windows xp pro 32bit in bootcamp.
i got bootcamp 3.0 from the snow leopard 10.6 DVD.
Apple software update has an upgrade for bootcamp to version 3.1
After installing the update to 3.1, my screen is switching down to 640x480 4bit.
so i thought maybe i had installed something that messed up the updating.
i booted into osx, deleted the bootcamp partition via the bootcamp wizard, then recreate the bootcamp partition.
i installed a fresh install of windows xp pro 32bit, installed bootcamp 3.0 from the snow leopard DVD.
i update my windows via windowsupdate, and then i install bootcamp upgrade 3.1 via apple software update.
and again i get a 640x480 4bit resolution.
my imac has ATI mobility radeon hd 26000 XT...
why do bootcamp 3.1 update break my graphics driver ?
is it something i do? (i doubt it)
is there a walkaround, to avoid my graphics driver getting corrupted by the update ?
hardware =
Imac MA878LL 24" intel core 2 duo 2.4Ghz, 2GB ram, 320 GB hdd, ATI M. Radeon HD 2600 XT

So what you are saying is that even though the bootcamp utility exists and has already allocated my spot for Windows 7 on Snow Leopard Boot camp doesn't exist thus I can't get the 3.1 update yet?
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Windows XP SP3 removal and Bootcamp 2.1 update?

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no I got it going eventually.. the problem was i was impatient.. apparently even an hour of waiting with no response doesn't mean a hang.. If you'll just leave it overnight it will move on to the next step..
A google search shows that i'm not the only one fooled by this.. at 33 minutes to go... there are various postings by people who assumed a hang after a long period of nothing happening..
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Running Windows 7 via bootcamp but cannot update to either 3.1 or 3.2. My MAC OS is 10.6.8

I am running Windows 7 via bootcamp but cannot update to either 3.1 or 3.2. My MAC OS is 10.6.8.
I can download either version, but I get an error message after attempting to install.
First tried Boot Camp 3.2. Error message indicated I need Boot Camp 3.1 first.
Then tried Boot Camp 3.1. Error message indicated I need Boot Camp 3.0 first
Then tried Boot Camp 3.0. Would not allow download.
I know the OSX came with Boot Camp why is there a problem????!!

3.0 is on your OS X DVD. Clearly spelled out in the guide in Boot Camp Assistant, and here -
www.apple.com/support/bootcamp : manuals, look for 10.6 pdf version.
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Performance reduced under Bootcamp after EFI update on Macbook Pro Retina

after i upgraded EFI on my retina macbook pro the proformence reduced to unusable. under heavy load under bootcamp windows7. the cpu clock drops and as well as cpu clock. this is the screen shot of gpu clock monitoring from windows u can see the gpu clock is running at 270Mhz at most of the time and trying to be back to 725Mhz(yea, not 900Mhz!) when im running a graphic benchmark at same time cpu will run about 1.1Ghz as well. i noticed that it will run 10-20sec normally then CPU and GPU clock will start dropping. It's almost like speedstep is programmed backwards. My CPU is constantly running at 3.1-3.2GHz, and then as soon as a game loads, it drops to 1.2GHz. I've lost track of how many times I reset the SMC reseting SMC PRAM, reinstalling windows using Bootcamp or even erease the entire drive and start over from network recovery MacOS did not solve this problem. so all the recent games like COD MW3, Starcraft II, BF3,or D3 will only run about about 10 fps as i was playing them with no ploblem before the EFI update.
this is killing me! please help.
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Bootcamp Windows 7 Blue Screen of Death on MBPwR

Hello all, I've never needed to use this before but gosh darn it I need some advice, because I can't figure this out...
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There probably is a leaning curve and bleeding edge sortof with any new logicboard and setup.
Apple has issued a firmware upgrade for some models - I thought Retina - the MacBook Air has a serious problem under Windows.
Mac will run hotter under Windows. Maybe an error message.
GPU-Z:
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AIDA64 Extreme Edition
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CCleaner
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Check Application and System Folders for Red highlit messages. Note that you can right-click clear these log folders.
Memtest
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Bootcamp and Windows Updates

Hello,
I am new to Bootcamp and have Windows 7.0 Basic edition loaded on a partition and everything works just fine. There is an issue which I don't know if there is a workaround for.
The default boot is OSX, and I usually get to Bootcamp by restarting the computer. And occasionally it looks like Windows wants to update and eventually restart the computer.
Problem is that if you forget about OSx being your default boot and miss pressing that Option key while Mac is coming up then you wind up havving to restart again.
Isn't there a way for the system to know that it is restarting to take care of an update and temporarily go directly to the os that requested the restart?
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Install. Though might want to check on Intel graphics, you can always rollback. Also system restore check points. And make a restore system image at some point too.
you want and you need the "patch Tuesday" each month.
And you need a good security program of course, whether MS Security Essentials or something else.

For those who run Windows 8 with bootcamp: Do you update windows 8, with windows update? I have the latest bootcamp drivers, and never checked for updates on windows. Do you normally update windows 8?

Windows 8 has been running very well after installing it with bootcamp and its latest drivers.
I just have never updated Windows 8 itself, (windows has never checked for updates), and just has been
using it bare. Do you update windows 8 to the latest updates with windows 8, and have any problems
with the updates? Just curious before I start updating it for once.

You have to update Windows to the latest version with Windows Update and keep it updated, because this is a matter of security. Microsoft provides a lot of security updates and you have to install them even if you have got an antivirus. Then you can find other updates, and if you want to install Windows 8.1, just install all updates with Windows Update, and then go to the Windows Store and download Windows 8.1.
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Thanks for this Info!
I had the same issue with my Macbook. After installing Bootcamp 2.1 a blurry screen .
Unfurtunately i could not install the ATI driver because the "Check" Tool from AMD denies to install drivers.
I research the Intel website and found are more recent driver für my Intel chipset xx 965. After applying that driver everything was fine
Here is the link:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&ProductID=2576&DwnldID=15 544
Hope someone my find it useful.
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Bootcamp 2.1 update fails

Dear sirs,
i have a Macbook PRO + Win VISTA business (Macosx 10.5.3, all software at last update level), bootcamp 2.0 installed, and when i try to install bootcamp 2.1 (via apple software updater or manually) e retreive this error message:
error applying transforms. verify that....
Is there a workaround to install the update?
thankyou
Daniele Ricciardi

You should probably post your question in the Boot Camp forums:
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Hello all, i'm experiencing a lot of problems after updating to OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 especially with bootcamp.
My bootcamp partition is greyed out in disk utility, access bootcamp, i cant seem to mount it, delete the partition via bootcamp assistant.
I guess something went wrong in bootcamp after updating . i've been looking up all over the net trying to see if there are possible solutions to fix this problem.
[REDACTED] sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
      start       size index contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 613765824      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
614175464    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
615445000       1528
615446528 361326592      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976773120         15
976773135         32         Sec GPT table
976773167          1         Sec GPT header
[REDACTED] sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 613765824] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 614175464 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 615446528 - 361326592] HPFS/QNX/AUX
Help please !

Excellent work to get to this point. Were any of your partitions resized after Windows was already in place?
Your table (and my cheat sheet) looks as following
GPT 3 Start
GPT 3 Size
GPT 3 End
NTFS Start
Byte Offset
NTFS Size
NTFS End
322675264
1269536
323944800
323946496
1696
166287353
490233849
You need to use the following steps. If you see any error messages during the following steps, please stop and post back here with the error message.
Rebuild using start/end offsets from Testdisk DeepSearch using GPT Fdisk (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/)
Sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0
P (print the full list of parts)
D (delete)
4 (part 4)
N (new part)
4   (part 4)
323946496 - Start offset in bytes (start point for Bootcamp part)
+166287353 (Size offset as opposed to End offset)
0700     (Windows part type)
P           (print list of all parts just to see what changes will be made)
W         (Write the new GPT)
Y           (Yes! really write the new GPT)
   This will delete and re-write the GPT partition info for /dev/disk0s4.
Rebuild MBR to match the new GPT information thus resetting the Hybrid MBR
Sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
P (Print list of parts)
R   (Recover)
H (chooses Hybrid)
Partitions numbers to be hybridized: 2 3 4
Y (Good for GRUB question)
N (part 2 flag)
N (part 3 flag)
Y (part 4 flag make bootable partition)
W (Write the new MBR)
Y    (Yes! write the new MBR)
Reboot
Test 1 - Does Bootcamp Volume show up in Finder?
Test 2 - Can you see your files in Bootcamp Volume?
Test 3 - Can you select Bootcamp in System Preferences -> Startup Disk?
Test 4 - If Test 3 is successful, select Bootcamp and Click Restart.
If you see a hanging underline cursor at the top left on a black screen, and it does not proceed further, you may need Windows Startup Repair or a tool called EasyBCD.

Bootcamp 3.2 update will not install;

Tried using Apple software update; no luck so downloaded from apple support and tried to install and get the following error message:
"The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable"
Please help - My wireless internet is not working and I'm hoping this will help.
Thanks,
Macbook pro core i5 8gb 500 gb SATA 7500 rpm. OSX 10.6.8

Where is the download file?
Did you save as and do you have all your updates in a folder?
Tried a different browser?
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Hi all,
As it says - I did this successfully last year, but then decided I didn't want Windows 7 on.....now I do....as would like to play MW3 and when I use Bootcamp 4.01 I get the following:
Firstly it tells me there is no WLAN connection. This is BS, as my WLAN is connected fine, and I am on the internet and email at the same time. After inserting my windows disk, (after deselecting download latest files) it says it cannot partition and reformat my entire drive...which I don't want to do, as I don't have a backup harddrive to backup to!
Any ideas/suggestions/help?
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BobTheFisherman > Hem, yeah, that is stating the problem and not working toward resolving it.
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