Windows 10 Bootcamp Drivers

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Some people have a hard time installing drivers for Windows 10 on Boot Camp, here is how to install them www.bootcamponosx.com https://support.apple.com/down. Apple has released updated BootCamp drivers for use in Windows 10 (so long as your Mac is compatible). How to update such BootCamp drivers leaves a lot to be desired. Apple Software update in OS X will not reveal the updated BootCamp drivers. Apple Software update in Windows will not reveal the updated BootCamp drivers.

Boot Camp Assistant makes it possible to install and run Windows operating system on Mac computers without using any virtualization software.

One needs to install required Boot Camp support software or drivers to make sure that keyboard, touchpad, displays and other components of Mac computer work great with Windows operating system.

If you are experiencing display, keyboard, mouse, audio, built-in camera or microphone issues while running Windows 10 on your Mac, you can repair the Boot Camp drivers to fix issues. You can repair the Boot Camp if the Boot Camp Control Panel is not working properly as well.

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In addition to repairing the Boot Camp, this method can also be used to update Boot Camp drivers to the latest version.

Repair and update Boot Camp drivers in Windows 10

Complete the given below directions to repair the Boot Camp in Windows 10.

Step 1: The first step is to download the Boot Camp software from Apple. If you have access to the macOS on your Mac machine, refer to our how to download Boot Camp drivers for Windows 10 guide for step-by-step directions.

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Alternatively, if you don’t have access to the macOS or removed macOS from your Mac computer, follow the instructions in our how to download Boot Camp drivers on Windows 10 without the Boot Camp Assistant guide to download Boot Camp support software.

Step 2: After downloading the Boot Camp drivers, open up the BootCamp folder and then run the Setup.exe located in that folder.

NOTE: If you have downloaded Boot Camp drivers to a USB drive, then the path to the setup file would be:

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F:BootCampSetup.exe

Where “F” is the drive letter of the USB drive.

Step 3: Click the Repair button to install missing files and repair damaged Boot Camp drivers and data. Note that old drivers will be updated to the newest version during the process.

Step 4: Once done, click the Finish button. Reboot your computer when you are asked to do so. Restart and boot into Windows 10 again to check if Boot Camp and its drivers are working good now.

Our how to install Windows 10 on Mac without the Boot Camp guide might also interest you.

Classic Mac Pro 5,1 (or simply cMP, also 4,1 upgraded to 5,1) is now considered by Apple as vintage. It’s pretty disappointing considering how capable and upgradable these machines still are. Installing Windows is no longer officially supported, but it’s completely possible though not quite easy.

Another challenge is that macOS Mojave 10.14 now implies using Metal-capable GPU while most of them are not able to display Apple boot menu (which you normally see holding the Option key) required to boot into Windows. Basicaly your screenremains black until macOS is loaded. Well, some EFI bootable cards that support boot menu exist but they are released almost 10 years ago and are really outdated. What is more, none of them supports displaying of boot menu with 4k 60hz monitor connected.

This guide is for those who want macOS Mojave + Windows 10 + modern GPU (in our case Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 580 8GB).

Updated 28 May 2019

Installing Windows 10 in 5 steps

It’s supposed that you have the latest Boot ROM version 144.0.0.0.0. If not, please update first.

Step 1: Use separate drive for Windows

Boot Camp Assistant no longer supports cMP and doesn’t allow creating a separate partition for Windows.Windows has to be installed on a separate drive, which is good actually to avoid messing with partitions in future.

We recommend using the internal SATA II connector in one of four drive bays or alternatively one of two SATA II connectors in the optical drive area. Using the HP 654540-001 3.5” → 2.5” adapter (7$) to place 2.5” SSD in a drive bay can be quite convenient.

Of cause, SATA II (up to 300MB/s) is a bottleneck for modern 2.5” SSDs (up to 550 MB/s where SATA III is preferable) but real life experience shows that the difference is hardly noticable unless you deal with lots of big files (e.g. >1GB where sequential read/write speeds matter) on your system drive.

We didn’t test using PCIe → SATA III adapter or PCIe → NVMe adapter for Windows partition. Many people reported it was not possible in their case. If you successfully did it please let us know in the comments below or via e-mail.

Step 2: Create a bootable Windows 10 DVD disk

Warning: DO NOT install Windows from a USB flash drive. It has been discovered that Windows when installed in EFI mode is corrupting the Mac Pro’s firmware by signing it with multiple Secure Boot (X.509) certificates. Also, you wouldn’t be able to boot into Windows after selecting its drive as bootable in macOS Preferences → Startup disk. Therefore Windows should only be installed in Legacy BIOS mode from an optical drive.

Make sure that your Windows 10 ISO file fits on the DVD disk, in our case we had to burn Windows 10 1803 ISO (64-bit) to a single-layer DVD+R disc 4.7GB.

Burning a DVD disk under macOS can be done with the following Terminal command:

On Windows we recommend using the free ImgBurn app.

Step 3: Boot from your Windows 10 DVD disk

Turn on your mac while holding the “C” key to boot from the optical disk (if you have PCIe drives installed and can’t boot from the disc, remove those PCIe adapters).Proceed with installation normally until you see the “Where do you want to install Windows” drive selection screen.

Step 4: Format the target drive

Press Shift+F10 to launch command prompt. Type the following commands:

Now make sure to select the correct target drive number N (NOT your macOS disk), after that type:

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You should now see your drive as Unallocated space.

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Press the “New” button to create necessary partitions. There should be only two partitions (for legacy installation, EFI mode creates four) automatically created:

Select the newly created partition 2 and continue with installation normally. Your mac will be rebooted twice.Every reboot do not forget entering the boot menu (by holding the Option key) and selecting ‘Windows’ boot drive there. When finished, boot into Windows.

Step 5: Install Windows drivers and Boot Camp utility

Windows 10 installs all necessary drivers automatically except Bluetooth and internal speaker. These need to be installed from the original Boot Camp package for MacPro5,1.Download and install 7zip, download Brigadier 0.2.4 app, open Windows command prompt where Brigadier is located and type:

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When finished, it will create a folder BootCamp-031-11269, you need to install these for Bluetooth and internal speaker correspondingly, make sure you run the command prompt as administrator:

Now we need newer BootCamp drivers intended for iMacPro1,1:

When finished, it will create a folder BootCamp-041-55643, you need to run this command:

When finished, reboot. We also recommend running Apple Software Update to update Wifi drivers:

You probably don’t want to forget installing our awesome Macs Fan Control app, do you? :)

Switching between macOS Mojave & Windows

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When you’re in macOS, use Preferences → Startup disk to select a boot drive:

When you’re in Windows, use the Boot Camp Control Panel from your Windows tray to select a boot drive:

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This guide is based on this MacRumors thread. Special thanks to h9826790 for sharing his useful experience. Any comments are welcome.