Windows 7 Wireless and Audio Drivers on 2010 MacBook Pro

I have a new MacBook Pro i7 2.66 Mhz with Snow Leopard and dual boot to Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate. I can't find the correct drivers (Windows 7 side) to get the audio and the wireless networking operating. I ran the bootcamp setup from the Snow Leopard install disc on Windows 7. It gave an error message that this model is not supported. I then ran each software driver individually from the install disc and was able to get all to work except the audio and wireless. I then installed the Bootcamp 3.2 update from the Internet with no improvement.
Does anybody know where the audio and wireless drivers can be located for Windows 7? (Apple Support has not been able to resolve the problem yet) Thank You!

I'm having the same problem with Windows 7 64-bit Professional. I had to go through the same process to get most of the drivers installed. I've had the same issues with the wireless and audio drivers.
To get the Apple drivers installed, I followed the instructions from this blog post.
http://michael.anastasiou.me/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22:qbo ot-camp-x64-is-unsupported-on-this-computer-modelq-solution&catid=7:how-to&lang= en
Has anyone had any luck with the rest of the drivers?

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How do I enable Windows 7 64-bit on Spring 2010 Macbook Pro?

Hi,
I'm planning to install Windows 7 Home Premium in my brand new MacBook Pro. I already bought the full retail version. I am aware of the fact that the Windows 7 installation disc has both, 32bit and 64bit versions (of Windows 7) on it. I just wanted to know what do you have to do in order to tell BootCamp to install the 64bit version of Windows 7 instead of the 32bit. The main reason of what I want to do this is that I have 4gb of ram and I don't want it to be wasted since the 32bit version of Windows 7 will not see the additional ram.
I will appreciate any help on this matter.
Thank You.
Mike
(System Specs Below)

you don't do anything to bootcamp, when the installation of windows starts, you have the option of installing 32 or 64 bit versions. that's where it's done.
then after that, you have to install the 64 bit drivers from your mac os x install dvd, then 3.1 update. it's sort of described here in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2531082&tstart=0
there are all sorts of weird problems you might have, like black screen during install/reboot, drivers not working, etc...
but in answer to your question, you choose 32/64 bit during bootup of the windows install disc (which bootcamp will take you into), not in bootcamp itself.

New macbook pro has frozen during windows migration and can,t operate, new macbook pro has frozen during windows migration and can,t operate

trying to set up new macbook and has frozen during the process of using windows migration, now can,t get it to go

Try just holding down the power key to power off - you may have some files that migrated, maybe, maybe not.
You won't hurt anything - just have to try MA again if it doesn't work the first time.
Clinton

Can I install Windows 8.1 on my mid-2010 MacBook Pro?

Can I do it or I will get an error saying that it is incompatible and cannot be installed?
I need to know before I buy. As far as I am concerned I does meet the minimum system requirements suggested by Microsoft by a long shot. Will boot camp allow it?
Regards.

try this:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/guide/windows#topic-1

HT5628 How to fix track pad and audio drivers if we install windows 8 on macbook pro??

Can anyone help me how to install track pad and audio drivers for my MBP if i install windows 8 on it?

Run Boot Camp Assistant and select the menu option to download the Windows Support software, Then start Windows and install the Windows Support software. Follow the Boot Camp instructions which detail how to download and install the drivers (Windows Support software).

HT3986 I got a macbook pro Retina and I installed a windows 7. The problem is I can't find drivers for the Macbook pro retina hardware which work for windows 7

I got a macbook pro retina and I installed windows 7. How can I get the windows 7 drivers for the Macbook Pro Retina?

Read the Boot Camp Instructions, you have to download the drivers using Boot Camp Assistant
If you missed that I suggest that you read the instructions again.

Error install windows 8.1 on a 2010 macbook pro 13 inc

hi.
i am trying to install windows 8.1 on a 2010 macbook pro 13 inc
i have now successfully make bootcamp show the option to create a windows 7 install disk how ever it does not show the other part of create windows 7 or “later version” install disk .
and also i get an error when making a windows 8.1 bootable disk which says
“boot camp only supports windows 7 installation on this platform.plz use an iso file for windows 7 installation””
need help plzz
thank you
—–afrah—-
Message was edited by: afrah000

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Although you managed to "hack" Boot Camp Assistant and you can create a Windows USB installer, you will not be able to boot from the USB drive and you will get a nice "No bootable device" screen after restarting your Mac.
Apple has set up Boot Camp Assistant in order to show the option to create a USB installer only in Macs which support it. In the case of the MacBook Pro, only MacBooks Pro with Retina display support that option, so you are out of luck. You need Windows on a DVD.

I have a mid 2010 Macbook Pro, How can I install Windows 7 without an Optical Drive?

For clarity: I have a mid 2010, Macbook Pro. I recently decided to upgrade to a Crucial SSD drive, double the ram (8 gigs), and remove the optical drive in favor of using my old drive as a back up. I am also currently running Yosemite.
I want to install Windows 7 onto my SSD, using bootcamp. Unfortunately I no longer have an optical drive installed, which makes things difficult as Bootcamp does not even give me the option to create a bootable USB.
Now, this is where things get kinda fuzzy:
MId 2010 macbooks use EFI, and are quite capable of booting from USB. How do I know? Because I booted from a USB drive in order to do a fresh install of Yosemite on my SSD.
I have read mutliple forums and threads with claims that folks have had no problems doing this on 2008 Macbook Pros running Snow Leopard. However, what seemed to be required was some clever .plist modding. I have used both text wrangler, and x-code to do this, unfortunately upon booting of bootcamp, bootcamp instantly crashes. Naturally, I can restore bootcamp because I made backups of the .plist file.
It would seem that modffying the .plist file assumes that the option to create a bootable USB device is grayed out. In my case, it is non existent.
I have also read that folks have had success using rEFIt, however rEFIt has been forked to rEFIned, and the developer of rEFIned made mention on his site that Yosemite handles booting differently than previous versions of OSX.
WIth that, I was hoping that some kind person could explain to me whats going on, what I am missing, and what I can do to make this happen just shy of tearing down my MBP and reisntalling the Optical Drive and dusting off my Win 7 disc.
Also, my Model Number/Bootrom is MBP 6,2.
Thanks in advance!

Thank you for your reply, and the information. This is what I came up with:
I added the strings as instructed, however when I went to sign the script in terminal, I was told:
/Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app: replacing existing signature
/Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app: code object is not signed at all
In subcomponent: /Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app/Contents/info.plist
Also, here are screen captures of the lines that I added. Mine are the top string entries:
Thank you for your help, thus far!

Mid-2010 MacBook Pro and Intel 530 SSD

Hey everyone,
Does anyone have any information regarding upgrading my mid-2010 MacBook Pro i5 running Mavericks with an Intel 530 250GB SSD? I have read some stories of people not being able to boot etc when running Lion with the 510/520 series. If it is not compatible, any suggestions of a similar SSD from another manufacturer?
Thank you all in advance and Happy Thanksgiving!

@Clinton, thanks, I like this machine as well.
FWIW, I got the SSD with the "Data Doubler" from Macsales. For those who do not know this is a metal frame that allows a standard size 2.5" disk or SSD to be used in place of the optical drive, which in my case no longer was able to read many media disks anyway.
I setup the SSD in the old optical bay and left my 1TB Toshiba hard drive in the hard drive bay. I did this because I have some long ago memory of reading somewhere, perhaps in error, that the sudden motion sensor won't signal a hard drive in the optical bay in the case of an event.
The SSD is my boot device and main device while the hard drive is my media drive, movies, music, as well as the virtual Windows drive using Parallels. As a development machine this SSD has put new life into the old girl and saved me quite a nice chunck of change over getting a new machine.
One note; for my machine OWC recommends getting the 3G (SATA II) drive rather than a 6G (SATA III) as due to some quirk an OWC 6G drive will fall back to 1.5G speeds rather than 3G. Here is their list of machines:
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MacBookPro5,3
MacBookPro5,4
MacBookPro5,5
and here is the link, for those interested: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDEX6G240/

Mid-2010 MacBook Pro: freezing and spinning wheel

Hi there,
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro (I know, old) that's been in very good condition. I upgraded my OS to Mavericks in May, which is when it started being slow and crashing/freezing around twice a week. For example, just doing normal things like surfing the web or checking the Airport or battery life will suddenly freeze the cursor which will then turn into the spinning wheel of death. Sometimes I can wait it out if it's a few minutes but sometimes I have to manually turn off the computer and then turn it back on when it's been hours of no change or improvement. I know it's probably best to downgrade back to Snow Leopard but I'd really like to keep my OS. Are there other things I can do to optimize my Mac? I've tried keeping fewer files on the desktop and emptying out the trash often and it seemed to help for a while. Other suggestions?
Thanks for reading!

Wow, that post looks like a mess...I will try to make it more readable.
Thanks for your reply. I had to wait a few days for the problem to crop up again. I followed your instructions to the best of my ability. The thing is that the problem (i.e. freezing and spinning wheel) happened at 8:19 and the closest messages in the Console were are time stamped 8:17 and 8:25. So I will put them here for you to look at if you don't mind:
2014-09-03 8:17:00.034 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[22]: _SendAttachNotification Device 6c:3e:6d:35:85:8d@fe80::6e3e:6dff:fe35:858d._apple-mobdev2._tcp.local. has already appeared on interface 5. Suppressing duplicate attach notification.
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: [EWOULDBLOCK][vnode:0xffffff80243e1780][original:0xffffff80243e1780][callback: 0 count:263 ] onaccessctl_check:1827 result:0 disconnected:0
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: current scan list:
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: (pid 37 [mtmd], vnode 0xffffff80243e1780 [/Users/Rose/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Session Storage/004039.log], [context 0xffffff80236087b0] [result 0] [setup 0] [disconnected 0] [vfsbusy 0]) - 1 waiter(s)
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: available kctl entries: 9
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: nspace-handler-unblock: did not find token 7629
2014-09-03 8:25:48.490 PM com.apple.mtmd[37]: handler unblock failed. (status=-1/errno=2/token=7629/fd=5)
2014-09-03 8:25:48.490 PM com.apple.mtmd[37]: attempting to thin because of low free space on Macintosh HD by removing
2014-09-03 18:30:17 -0400, estimate 0 bytes to recover, 1 snapshot can be thinned
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: onaccess_send: NULL target or context; request:0 kctl_entry:0xffffff80234d5000
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: onaccess_send: not SAV_KCTL_REQ_COMPLETE, return ENOMEM
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: onaccess_send: NULL target or context; request:0 kctl_entry:0xffffff80234d5000
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: onaccess_send: not SAV_KCTL_REQ_COMPLETE, return ENOMEM
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: onaccess_send: NULL target or context; request:0 kctl_entry:0xffffff80234d5000
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: onaccess_send: not SAV_KCTL_REQ_COMPLETE, return ENOMEM
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: onaccess_send: NULL target or context; request:0 kctl_entry:0xffffff80234d5000
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: onaccess_send: not SAV_KCTL_REQ_COMPLETE, return ENOMEM
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: onaccess_send: NULL target or context; request:3 kctl_entry:0xffffff80234d5000
2014-09-03 8:25:48.000 PM kernel[0]: sav: onaccess_send: SAV_KCTL_REQ_COMPLETE, intercheck_done()
2014-09-03 8:25:50.584 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[198]: Background: [2070] disappeared out from under us (UID: 501 EUID: 501)
2014-09-03 8:25:52.554 PM sandboxd[139]: ([2068]) assistantd(2068) deny file-read-data /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security-common.plist
2014-09-03 8:27:22.580 PM Console[2087]: setPresentationOptions called with NSApplicationPresentationFullScreen when there is no visible fullscreen window; this call will be ignored.
I hope this is not too much text and I hope it makes some sense. The problem happened while I was closing a tab on Chrome, which wasn't anything sketchy, just Facebook, and nothing too unmanagable (it was the only application active). Thanks for your help!

Does my mid 2010 macbook pro's displayport support audio (in addition to the video I know it supports)?

I have been using my displayport to drive a video only HDMI input by way of a displayport to DVI converter followed by a DVI to HDMI converter. It works great but of course there's no audio at the end of that chain because DVI is a video only connector.
That made me wonder... is my displayport outputting both audio and video which could be converted directly to HDMI (giving me both audio and video at the HDMI end)? How can I tell if my mid-2010 macbook pro's displayport connector is outputting both audio and video? My internet search is inconclusive about whether both are available on that connector for my mid 2010 model macbook pro.
Thank you.

Hi, these MacBooks of 2010 support Audio through display port:
MacBook Mid 2010 (GeForce 320M)
MacBook Air 11 inch 2010 or 13 inch 2010 (Core 2 Duo)
MacBook Pro 13 inch 2010 (GeForce 320M)
MacBook Pro 15 inch 2010 or 17 inch 2010 (GeForce 330M),
No 2009 Macs support audio through DisplayPort
All 2011 and latter Macs support displayPort audio
so it looks like you can get audio if yo have the Macbook with Geforce 320M

2010 Macbook pro freezes a lot, but mouse still moves. It unfreezes if you wait. It also hard crashes... Also, weird lines and screen flashes.

I have a 2010 Macbook pro running snow leopard (Mac OS 10.6.8). First off, this has been the worst computer I've ever owned or have heard of someone having, Mac or PC. There hasn't been a time where something hasn't been wrong. I'm going to list my specs, my current problems and maybe list previous problems after that. Any advice or suggestions would be great. My brother works for apple out in Cali and I've been sending him crash and bug reports and he can't seem to figure out what's going on.
Specs:
2010 Macbook Pro (Mac OSX 10.6.8)
Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics Cards: Intel HD Graphics (288 VRAM) and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M (512 VRAM)
(if you want more info, just ask)
To start things off, my computer hard crashes at random points playing basically any game. StarCraft 2 (when I could play the game prior to Blizzard patching my OS out of the minimum requirements), League of Legends, MineCraft and others all crash while in use. My computer screen suddenly flashes white and then to black and whatever audio may have been playing in the past second of gameplay is thrown into a constant loop. The screen is solid black with no mouse and there is no keyboard functionality. The only thing I can do is hold down the power button. I first started noticing this problem back when StarCraft 2 Heart of the Swarm came out. I would crash every 4 or 5 games in this way. Since that was happening I resorted to playing other games such as League of Legends. I wasn't having any trouble at all, but gradually it started to have the hard crashing issues. Initially every handful of games, now it crashes in roughly 50% of the games I play. This happens while I have NO other applications open and this has happened even after a complete restart with only 2 things opening at startup. League started crashing in this way after I brought my computer in to have a fan replaced.
Another thing which has started happening since I had my fan replaced at the apple store: My computer has become very sluggish at times and my computer freezes in another way. Many times a day, I will find I click on something in an application and the entire computer locks up. There's no spinning beachball. There's no movement of any sort on the screen and there is no button functionality, but I can move the mouse. Clicking does nothing. This sort of freeze lasts for about 30 seconds up to 5 or 6 minutes or so. After that, it suddenly just decides to work again. I can tell when it unfreezes because the clock in the corner jumps to the correct time. This has happened frequently while using Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari. It also happened while trying to use Skype. It was freezing the most when facebook or youtube has been open, but it happens without that happening as well. One of the first times I noticed it, earlier this year, I was searching for work and tried to go to this website: http://www.nhab.org/ (looking for a job). It froze my computer as I described above (and I didn't know it would unfreeze after several minutes, so I thought my computer was completely frozen). I restarted, went to the same website and it froze again. I did this a third time and it froze again, so I restarted again. On the fourth try, it loaded. The frequency of this problem is ridiculous. I actually decided to delete Google Chrome from my computer (and its support files) since my computer would freeze the most often with Chrome (though I used Chrome mostly for youtube and watching tv shows online). Almost instantly after deleting Chrome, my computer was running significantly faster. things loaded quicker in other browsers and aplications loaded smoother. My text no longer lagged when typing in facebook... It hasn't solved the freezing, though the freezing tends to last less time now.
Another thing that happens, which I am not sure is normal: When my computer is booting, after the grey screen, it changes to light blue. During this light blue time, often times white horizontal centimeter to inch wide bars will flash across the screen near the top. This also happens on shutting down. I also noticed that when it shuts down the screen doesn't just shut off. The screen flickers quick for up to a second and then it is off. It doesn't just turn off.
My computer has also occassionally flashed for a brief fraction of a second, to the blue start up color and back to whatever I am doing.
Those are all issues I am having right now and I am beginning to wonder if this several thousand dollar computer is capable of doing much more than just writing text..
Prior issues I have had:
Right from the start, I have had major graphical issues which I showed to the people at the apple store and they reinstalled flash, but they really didn't know what was going on. These glitches would tiles previous graphical things I had done in an artistic mozaic across my desktop, replacing my background image with broken mozaics. It's hard to explain without showing, so here are 2 screenshots from it:
The people at the store thought it was just flash... but I don't understand how that could be flash. I would have to flip through different desktop backgrounds I used to make it go away. After it doing this for 2 years, it has only happened once since then and not very badly..
Another issue I had: The battery on my laptop just about exploded... I woke up one morning with my laptop sitting on my night stand as usual, but there was a small crack across part of my trackpad. I was scared because I thought I must have done something... I went to the bathroom, took a shower and when I came back the crack was farther across the trackpad. I had breakfast, came upstairs and my trackpad had 1 crack across the whole thing with multiple mini cracks going in every direction from it. After telling my brother what was going on, he quickly said that it was the battery and to take it to a store. I took it to the store and showed them what was happening and they very quickly took it out back and I quote "threw the battery in a firesafe immediately" because when they opened the laptop it started to quickly expand. This ended up cracking my trackpad as well as bending the bottom of the body on the laptop. All had to be replaced...
Then I had the fan sounding like a weedwacker, so I had it replaced a couple months ago and a couple months ago is when the freezing began, the computer started running slowly and all games crash the computer.
I have had a lot of things go wrong, not a lot of things go right and I'm really frustrated. Can anyone tell me how to get my computer to stop freezing or how to make it stop hard crashing during any of the games I play?
Basically, what I have done so far is reset the PRAM I think? I held command + option + P + R on start up and had it chime 3 or 4 times. Other than that, I don't know what to do.... suggestions?

I just wanted to follow this up by saying that you were entirely correct in your diagnosis of the situation. My computer did have the faulty part you linked to. I brought my laptop in and specifically told them to run that test, had it fail and then argued with the person at the genius bar and the manager. Eventually they offered to have it sent out and have everything replaced for free of charge. They did so mainly because I had complained about graphical issues almost every other time I had come in with problems and no one ran the test. They should have caught this problem during my warranty, but they didn't, even though I mentioned the problem.
Anyhow, after having the part replaced, I haven't had my computer crash a single time since, or had many of the issues mentioned above. I've never had this experience before. Even brand new, I got occasional crashes. Hopefully this new trend continues.
I do find that web browsing is still incredibly slow. Web browsers just chug along at a slow pace, even though I have great internet speed. Maybe I'll try just deleting my web browsers and reinstalling them...
Anyhow, thank you for your help and knowledge Clinton.

Problem install windows on mid 2010 MacBook Pro 13 with 10.9.1

I run into problem install windows on mid 2010 MacBook Pro 13 with 10.9.1. Boot Camp Assistant shows error "Can't install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server.". So what is the problem and how can I work around it? I also tried to only chose "Install Windows 7" option, but it could not recognize my windows dvd (which I created from ISO). Any help is appreciated.

I run into problem install windows on mid 2010 MacBook Pro 13 with 10.9.1. Boot Camp Assistant shows error "Can't install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server.". So what is the problem and how can I work around it? I also tried to only chose "Install Windows 7" option, but it could not recognize my windows dvd (which I created from ISO). Any help is appreciated.

Stage3D and a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro

So, I have a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro running Lion. It has a GeForce GT 330M. According to everything I can find online, my computer should support Stage3D. However, when I try and use an application that calls for it, I get errors about an unsupported graphics card. When I go to the Stage3D unsupported chipset page, it says that my GPU does not support Stage3D in Baseline or Constrained profile.
I found a guy who did some testing of Stage3D vs. WebGL, and he used the same chipset I am using to run the tests.
Is it a driver issue that was fixed in Snow Leopard/Mavericks? Or is my chipset actually unsupported? I would think that a three-year-old graphics card should still work. I appreciate any help that anyone can give.
Complete system specs:
MacBook Pro, Mid 2010
2.4 GHz i5
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256MB
Mac OS X 10.7.5
Flash Version: 11.9.900.152

I'd personally trust the assessor window more than the list. It uses javascript to render Stage 3D animation via your GPU, so if it doesn't support it, it won't show the 3D animation.
Since 2004 Apple has been notorious for releasing "mid year" and "late year" models that have minor changes, but are still called the same year model. Sometimes, those changes are for the better, sometimes not.
I had a 2004 G5 iMac that was a 1.8gHz 20". It was made in June. The models made in December 2004 had iSight cams built in and a different GPU, but they were still called 2004 iMacs. Better systems for nearly $600 less. I had a late 2009 MacBook Pro that had a better GPU (512mb VRAM) than my neighbor's early 2009 MBP (256mb VRAM). I'd suspect that the people with 2010 Minis who CAN run Stage 3D have later models, with a different GPU, or some other "minor change" made by Apple that allows it.
Regardless of what it is, unfortunately Flash Player and Stage 3D can't upgrade hardware.

HT5019 I connect my macbook pro to an Epson wireless projector. The macbook can see the projector wirelessly and the image on the macbook is displayed on the projector. However on system ref., the arrangement tab does not show and thus cannot have multipl

I connect my macbook pro to an Epson wireless projector. The macbook can see the projector wirelessly and the image on the macbook is displayed on the projector. However on system ref., the arrangement tab does not show and thus cannot have multiple view.
I am trying to project Pro Presenter on the Epson projector such that I have the detail screen on the macbook and only the screen I want people to see on the projector display. This has not been possible because the arrangement tab on the Display section of the System Preference is not showing. If i tried to search for the arangement, it comes back with the message that there is not other source detected, hence the arrangement tab is not showing.
I have also tried to connect the Epson directly to the Macbook but it still the same result, so its not because it is a wireless connection. Can someone advise me jhow to go around this problem. I have used windows before and it is very easy to extend ptojection on windows, but this system seems to be frustrating to me.
Thanks,
Toks

Hi Toksyb!
You may want to try clearing out the PRAM on your computer. This process is explained through this article:
About NVRAM and PRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

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