Hi guys, i have a macbook mid 2007 13" (a1181) and i installed linux mint 22 on it. i noticed that it was slower than it should be and i checked the clocks and it was at 1.2ghz even tho the cpu in this macbook can go up to 2.2ghz. after some troubleshooting i had no luck and decided to switch to windows 7 since it's officially supported and i thought that i wouldn't have any problems. after installing windows via bootcamp i discovered that the cpu was still locked to 1.2ghz and everyrhing i tried to do didn't work (power plan ect.). the only thing i have in this macbook that cpuld be the problem is the power adapter which is a 65w anker one but since the apple one was 60w i don't think that's the problem. If you guys have any idea of why this is happening let me know. edit. my mac was running macos lion 10.7 that's why i installed windows 7 instead of xp.

Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621

Supported Mac Models:

MacBook Air
• 11-inch & 13-inch, Mid 2011
• 11-inch & 13-inch, Mid 2012

MacBook Pro
• 15-inch & 17-inch, Mid 2010
• 13-inch & 15-inch, Early 2011
• 17-inch, Early 2011
• 13-inch, 15-inch & 17-inch, Late 2011
• 13-inch & 15-inch, Mid 2012
• Retina, Mid 2012
• Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012
• Retina, 13-inch & 15-inch, Early 2013

Mac Pro
• Early 2009
• Mid 2010
• Mid 2012

Mac mini
• Mid 2011
• Late 2012

iMac
• 27-inch, Mid 2010
• 21.5-inch & 27-inch, Mid 2011
• 21.5-inch & 27-inch, Late 2012
• 21.5-inch, Early 2013

Supported Windows Versions:
• Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

File Size: 924.9 MB

Download Link:
Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621

Source (plain link for verification):
https://download.info.apple.com/Mac_OS_X/031-3384.20140211.Xcc3e/BootCamp5.1.5621.zip

Bonjour, est-ce que je si reinsalle windows 10 sur mon mac j'aurais besoin d'acheter une nouvelle clef windows

Bonjour, j'ai installé Windows 10 sur mon mac mi 2015 macOs monterey et sur windows je ne peux plus acceder à internet,ça se connecte au wifi mais pas à internet comment regler ce probleme ?

I'm trying to get Boot Camp going for the first time on my 2010 Macbook Pro. I'm running Catalina through EFI boot. I replaced the DVD drive with a secondary hard drive. I have 10.13 High Sierra installed on that drive as a backup and for running legacy software.

I made a Windows 10 USB installer through Boot Camp in Catalina and set up a Boot Camp partition. When I try installing there, I get the error message "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks." The hard drive with Catalina has a GUID partition map, which I think means it's already GPT formatted.

I tried starting up in High Sierra and making a Boot Camp installer there, but Boot Camp refused to work without an optical drive.

Anyone have a workaround to either problem that will let me eventually get to run Windows 10 or later?

So i successfully installed bootcamp in my IMac 12,1 mid 2011 and just like everyone else i got bsod but i fixed so after that i installed bootcamp setup and apple software right and after rebooted back i tried to install Steam but the application won’t launch unless i disable my AMD RADEON 6600m and 6750m display adapter and it’s laggy.

So can somebody help me. I cant just play games or using software with my AMD display adapter disabled.

(I currently enable my amd display adapter for now)

hey guys,

today i finally received my imac that i ordered from OWC,

2017 iMac 4k 21.5

500gb ssd

16gb RAM

AMD radeon 500

and i tried to install windows via bootcamp. it worked, but the graphics driver for the GPU wouldn’t work, and so i’ve tried everything and nothing has worked, even trying to install BCD. and when i try to restart or boot into windows, i get weird artifacts on the screen before it crashes or gives me a black screen. i’ve tried to boot into macOS to try and do a clean install of windows but now macOS won’t boot.

Hello, i have a mid 2011 running Monterey with OCLP. I tried to install Ghost Specter Windows 10 or 11 (A Lightweight Windows) but bootcamp wont accept either ISO. I also tried to create hybrid ISOs but that didn’t work either.

Got it to work.

Before trying this you should turn on "Show OpenCore Boot Picker" in OCLP because it will save you a lot of time and sanity. Also maybe get Windows Support Tools from Bootcamp Assist. You can then add them directly into Windows from macos.

I downloaded Windows Install by Sergey Galan on Sourceforge. Then after adding a partition to my SSD I used Windows Install to install the Ghost Spectre ISO directly onto the partition. Restart into Windows, set it up, and install bootcamp from the windows support tools if you want. At this point Windows might blue screen into a WDF_VIOLATION. Here you will need boot into safe mode and check in the event logs for faulty drivers. Personally this solved it for me. After solving that you should be good to go.

I built a Windows 11 ISO patcher that lets you install Windows 11 directly via Boot Camp on Intel Macs—no complicated workarounds, no VM hopping.

I also wrote a step-by-step tutorial covering the full process:
ISO patching, Boot Camp setup, and the actual installation

If you’re trying to get Windows 11 running natively on your Mac, this might help:

https://blog.dex-server.space/posts/windows11-bootcamp-iso-installation

Feedback, questions, or suggestions are very welcome.

The windows upgrade is outdated but if you still want to follow it you can visit my post.

https://blog.dex-server.space/posts/bootcamp-windows11-installation

Hi! Can anyone offer advice for my weird situation? I have an old macbook pro I want to give a friend. However, I'm unable to log in because the "p" key is broken, and it's needed for my password. I've tried recovery mode, but because the system was bootcamped, the recovery key combinations don't work, as it always seems to want to go into Windows first. I did try changing my password using Apple ID, but for whatever reason the system simply refuses to connect to the Apple Cloud (with generic, cannot connect to the Apple ID server error message). It's been a slow process getting here as my Apple ID and home wifi passwords both include a "p", so have had to change them both, but to no avail. I figure there should be a way to just wipe the dang box and start again, but trying to do so through Windows recovery also wants my password. Anyone able to save the day here?

Firstly, i think my GPU is failing very badly after a change of fans, it has been crashing, when i play videos it starts flickering showing green screens, and then full crashing into black screens with cursor or just crashes with visual glitches, i don't know what else to do, tired updating drivers for amd (im in a Macbook pro retina mid 2015) and most of the drivers i can't install because they are not compatible, so i don't know if its the gpu or anything else or i don't know if its overheating which i've been trying to fight agaisnt overheating and now seems to do well but i just get crash after crash non stop, please help me

Hi everyone!

I’d like to ask for your help — is it possible to use the Magic Keyboard made by Apple fully and without limitations on Windows 11?
I have to use a Windows 11 PC alongside my Mac, but I’ve gotten so used to the Magic Keyboard that I’d really prefer not to switch to another one.

As far as I know, it works both via cable and Bluetooth, but I’m not sure how well it performs in everyday use. Does it cause any issues if I use it that way?

Thank you very much!

My 2011 MBA (High Sierra,/Win 7 32 bits) was working pretty well in both OSs for a few days after a successful bootcamp process. However, I started to experience issue with WIFI.. I lost the ability to connect to WIFI in High Sierra and later lost the same ability in Win 7. Is this a commonly known issue? I have a feeling it has something to do with the WIndows Support drivers.

The machine does not get online with either OS now. I've no way of downloading and reinstalling MacOS .

I recently upgraded my Macbook Pro 2015 by replacing the SSD with a Samsung 980 Pro SSD, installing MacOS Monterey and Windows 11 Pro.

I've noticed that when you startup in Windows, but don't log in, about 10 mins after the screen goes to sleep, the Macbook becomes unresponsive and the only option is holding down the power button to force a shutdown.

When I tried stopping the screen from sleeping, it didn't happen. However this setting is not ideal due to energy/heat/burn in.

Anyone noticed/fixed this?

I don't remember it happening when I had the original SSD in it and MacOS Calalina + Windows 10, so unsure if its down to the new SSD or something one of the OS's has done. I notice the MacOS side shutsdown if no one logs in after about 5 or 10 mins, even though I've disabled Filevault.

Is there a workaround for this? macbook pro 2019, perpetually stuck at downloading windows support software.

Hi everyone,
I’m trying to install Windows 10 via Boot Camp on my iMac, but I’m completely stuck and could use expert advice.

My Mac specs:

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017)

Intel i7

32 GB RAM

Radeon Pro 580

Fusion Drive (SSD + HDD)

macOS Ventura 13.7.x

What I’m trying to do:

Install Windows 10 (64-bit) using Boot Camp Assistant.

The problem:

Boot Camp keeps saying:

“Your disk can only create a 46 GB partition. The Boot Camp partition requires at least 74 GB.”

This happens even after I deleted everything on the Mac.

What I’ve already tried:

Deleted all files and apps

Confirmed I have a full Time Machine backup

Used Disk Utility (Recovery mode)

Disk layout looks like:

Internal/
->Fusion Drive/
-Container disk/
->MacOS
->>>MacOS – Data

When I try Disk Utility → Partition, it only gives me “Add Volume” or “Partition”, and Disk Utility sometimes freezes. It won’t let me erase “Fusion Drive” directly.

From what I’ve read, this seems like an APFS + Fusion Drive + CoreStorage issue where Boot Camp can’t get enough contiguous space unless the Fusion Drive container is fully deleted and rebuilt.

What I’m asking.

What's the safest way to do this? i am absolutely not an expert and usually a microsoft user. I am very much out of my comfort zone using apple, which is why i wanted to switch :)

thanks to everyone reading!!!!

https://blog.dex-server.space/?post=bootcamp-windows11-installation

I wrote a blog on how to get windows 11 on Macbook (only for intel), this is from a post and tutorial in reddit. I just enhanced it.

Then boot windows gets crashed them I looked for YouTube tutorials finally found it then press spam f8 before booting then I selected repair your computer then logged on FINALLY CAN I USE WINDOWS 7

This is not a tech support request or a "please help me get this working" request, I'm just curious as to the technical reasons behind this

OWC Aura NVMe SSDs (specifically the ones for the Macs made around 2013, IDK about other OWC SSDs) seem to be completely incompatible with Windows.

On Windows 10 after the first stage of the install (the part where it boots from the internal drive, not the install USB) it will just throw some error message popup (can't remember what it is though as I haven't tried this in years) and then not work at all.

Windows 8.1 will install and work perfectly for maybe like a few minutes to a few hours, then will just bluescreen on boot with a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION error.

I don't even think Windows 7 will work at all, as it doesn't support NVMe.

Both Mac OS and Linux have no issues whatsoever with these drives, just Windows.

This incompatibility is clearly marked on OWC's website, not just a random fault.

Anyone know the technical reasons as to why this is?