I can't open bootcamp assistant

Hello,
When I try to open Boot Camp Assistant a pop-up shows up reading:
"Boot Camp Assistant cannot be used"
followed by:
"You must update your system software before this setup assistant."
Here is the confusion: I am running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and the version of BCA I have on my computer is version 3.
Boot Camp version 3 is snow leopard compatible.
What is going on? How can I fix my bootcamp?

As I said, the error message is useless, meaningless, not to be taken seriously - at all.
You aren't doing anything wrong; nothing needs to be updated (there are rare times when something about firmware (EFI or SMC or for graphic device) might be "requested."
Whoever WROTE THE ERROR MESSAGE it is not looking at or identifying a real flag or issue or anything meaningful.
And even if there was firmware updates, they really would have at today's date, be of little value.
Cases where they might:
A bug in SSD and SATA 3 chip controller's firmware.
An OS can patch a bug, in kernel. So can a driver. If it affected an SSD or writing to a disk device and could result in lost data that would be bad. Or add support for an SSD. 2011 was full of stories about SSD support, SSD firmware updates. Something along those lines.

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