Imac A1311 Drivers Windows 10
Narkis Eatman
I have windows 10 on my mid 2011 imac. All the other drivers are working perfectly except for the sound drivers. I had windows 8.1 previously on this imac and the audio drivers did not work there either, so im thinking its something im doing wrong rather than the mac itself. All it says is "No speakers or headphones are plugged in" Is there a way to connect my internal speaker that I use on the mac OS to windows? Other people I've seen on these forums have the same imac model as me and their sound drivers work fine, so there must be a solution to this, right? Any help is always appreciated!
This will allow us to select whether we are going to boot from the SSD or to boot from the DVD. Select the Windows DVD. Windows 10 will now boot and we should now see the Windows 10 logo on the screen. Be aware that the boot process takes a long time so while it may appear that the system has hung, it is not. It is just very slow. After about a minute or 2 later, we will now see the first setup screen.
At some stage of the installation, Windows 10 will automatically reboot. This is fine. No need to press the Option key as it is smart enough to know that it should boot from its own windows partition. In fact, I observed that Windows 10 rebooted twice in total before it shows the screen prompting for a product key. Enter the product key accordingly.
Next it will ask if we should customize the settings or use express settings. I select custom settings and I highly recommended that this be selected. See here for more information of what to enable and what to disable. -the-difference-between-windows-10%E2%80%99s-express-or-custom-setup/
Once this is done, Windows 10 will again reboot and proceed with the install. Follow the prompt accordingly as Windows prompt for login account, etc. When the install is finished, Windows 10 will boot to a desktop. This is how it looks on my Mac.
The first observation with Windows 10 on the iMac is that the screen resolution is not the optimum 1920 x 1200. If we leave Windows 10 running for about 5 mins after its first boot, it will automatically change the screen resolution to the correct 1920 x 1200. Unfortunately, Windows 10 will in the process select the wrong graphics driver.
The above screenshot shows that Windows 10 has detected the display card as an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT. The iMac 2007 has an ATI Radeon 2600 Pro with 256MB GDDR3 memory. Why is this significant? Because with the incorrect driver, Windows 10 will hard crash from time to time and this can be reproduced each time easily when we drive the card hard such as playing a youtube video for instance. This gets so bad that it is almost impossible to use the iMac for any length of time.
So what we need to do now is to select these 4 hardware IDs by highlighting these 4 lines and right click the mouse to copy. Copy and paste these lines into a temporary text file so that we can get to these later.
There is a significance to how these files are named. The CH ones are device drivers for Windows Vista. The C7 ones are for Windows 7 and C8 ones are for Windows 8. We are going to patch the C8 drivers. So before we do any damage to these files, let us back these up to another folder. Quite an important step in case we make a unrecoverable error here.
Theoretically all 4 drivers should be the same so choose the first one to see if this works. Windows 10 will complain about unsigned drivers. Ignore this and proceed. Windows will go blank for a few times while the new driver is loaded. This is normal. Display Properties will now show the following:
I am also not sure if you create a bootable USB drive using the OSCDIMG image that you created earlier will allow the Mac to boot properly off win10 setup. Have no idea about this one sorry. I think you may have to google to see if others have attempted to do what you are doing. Sorry could not be of more help ?
Thanks for the insight. I have been running a Mac since the 512k days and this brings back memories of some of the tweeking back through the years as Apple moved on first to a new ROM, then the PPC and now Intel hardware.
Regarding the ATI Graphics drivers, I installed the Catalyst Software that Joseph recommended (it seems later versions just refuse to install properly) without modification. Windows Update found a later version of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT dated from 2015 that appears to be completely stable and compatible with the Catalyst software version 13.1.
Surely a stupid question, please forgive me: To get an actual dual boot menu (w/o using the option key) on system startup one still needs bootcamp installed on whatever MacOS is running, I assume? After successful Windows 10 installation the only way to boot MacOS is the option key? Without doing that the iMac will start whichever OS that was last chosen by default, right? Thanks
Hi Joseph. You are a life saver. Thanks. However, i would like to extend my screen to a dtv but even though the catalyst pro control center identifies the 2nd monitor, i still cannot extend to it. Any pointers?
what if windows wont boot at all, i installed windows vista for my bros machine and realized he dosnt have the moniter for the machine so ive been keeping the machine for a long time, i just decided to install my imacs hdd into my mbp so i dont have to run off of usb and my vista drive for my bros machine in the imac, so far ive gotten to the boot up screen but it only lasts like maybe a second and it crashes, blue screens for not even a second, and reboots. any help here? also imac dosnt have dvd drive cuz it broke. my imac is a mid 2007 base model imac but the 3gb of ram.
buenas, tengo el imac 7.1, sinceramente no me animo a hacer el proceso ya que es la primera vez que uso imac y no entiendo mucho, pero me gustaria si alguien que quiera darme una mano puedo dejar mis redes sociales para que se contacten conmigo y me ayude durante el proceso! gracias
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Is it possible to install Windows onto a blank disk? I mean without using any MacOS. Just creating the tweaked Win10 install-DVD and then proceed as if installing onto a PC. Without any Mac or EFI partition. (Btw, in this case do I have to make an EFI ora MBR install DVD?)
Is this method universal? i just discovered tiny windows 11 and would love to try it on a old imac i have installed windows 10 on with this guide. Just woundering if i can do the same thing just with a windows 11 iso.
If you own a Mac and you wanted to install Windows on it to run maybe some Windows software or games, Apple makes it possible by releasing Windows drivers which will allow Windows to run on your Mac computer.
Want to know how to install Windows on a Mac check out the videos below.
Install Windows 8.1 on a MacBook Air no DVD drive
How to install Windows 8.1 on a Mac running OS X Mavericks
How to install Windows 8 on a Mac with Boot Camp Easy Version
General Boot Camp questions about installing Windows 8 on a Mac
Greetings. I am in the process of trying to get windows 7 onto my MacBPro, running 10.9.4. I have purchased Windows 7, downloaded it & have an .iso file.
I followed the instructions in bootcamp(gotten all proper windows updates) and utilized your bit of code to get bootcamp to create a bootable disc from the iso file and put it on a USB, which it does successfully. When I proceed to partition my drive through bootcamp, it stops me & says there is no bootable disc detected, pls install disc.
Through my research I have also installed rEFIt and using disk utility partitioned my drive and bypass bootcamp. When I start my mac, I get the rEFIt option to install windows from my USB, but in doing so it cannot find the BOOTMGR file.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
Ira
Hi Ira
When you boot your Mac hold down the ALT option key and then when the drives menus come up insert your USB drive and what pops up after that?
It should pop up with a Windows USB drive at that stage?
Cheers
Matt
Hello, I have a problem installing Windows 10. Complete all the installation procedures, but it stops at this page and does not move to the next step. It keeps it like this for about 10 hours, and then it gives erorr, knowing that all copies are official and original.
I have Installed WIndows 8.1 using your method..But when i install Bootcamp Drivers..It installs them for a while and then screen goes black (when it is installing graphic drivers) and nothing happens eventually i have to restart my mac and then after the windows logo again that black screen appears..!
Any Suggestions ?
Hello Eric
try partitioning it using Disk Utility. then make a bootable USB with your preferred Windows Image. restart your Mac and as soon as you hear the startup chimes press and hold the ALT/OPT key until your partitions popup.
Hi. I already downloaded windows 8.1 (64-bit). And was in the process of making a bootable usb with the boot camp assistant but it prompts me with this message: Boot Camp only supports 64-bit Windows installation on this platform. Please use a ISO file for 64-bit Windows installation. I have a Macbook Air 10.9.2-early 2014. Please help. thanks
Hi Eric,
Yes it is free and you should be able to get all the boot camp drivers here.
Boot camp drivers
Also the last part of this video should give you some idea how to install them.
How to remove a bootcamp partition and install Windows support software from Apple.
Cheers
Matt
Hi Neil Johnston
You need to follow this video and do it on a Windows PC to create the USB which you can then use to install Windows on your Mac. Or you can get Microsoft to post out a DVD copy. I think its like $10 more and you can create a ISO file from that DVD.
ok awesome! I watched the video but when it asks where you want to save the installation file you chose USB. Do i choose USB as well to transfer to my iMac? Because I can only install windows with an ISO file but my iMac does not have a DVD drive. and when you enter the product key while on PC, will it start to download windows to that PC?
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