help! no audio in bootcamp

evankuhl · 06-09-2007, 08:01 AM

I'm working with a mac mini 1.66 duo

when i used parallels, windows and road runner worked fine, but slow. then i switched to bootcamp and windows cannot detect any audio hardware. I have my speakers plugged into the headphone port on the mac.

should i buy a USB sound-card adapter? is there a driver i need? (i already downloaded a few, intel, realtek, systwhatever)

thanks for the help!

timeshifter · 06-09-2007, 08:06 PM

You should have created a drivers CD as part of the Bootcamp process. You create the CD under Mac OS. After you install and boot Windows you use the driver disk to install drivers for sound, network, etc.

Go to the Device Manager and check to see if your sound card is installed.

There are tons of people using these things under Windows and the sound works just fine.

evankuhl · 06-17-2007, 02:38 PM

windows never detected the speakers or audio out device

i couldn't figure it out so i just went back to using parallels

kandyman676 · 06-18-2007, 10:42 PM

As timeshifter said, bootcamp prompts you to create a driver disk for Windows. If you forgot to create it, you can recreate it if you re-run bootcamp in MacOSX under Utilities. These same drivers also work for vista.

natedawgg · 06-19-2007, 11:12 AM

you might also want to re-download bootcamp since they just released ver 1.3. this version has more and much better drivers in it. just re-download it, install it and burn another drivers cd, reboot into windows and insert the cd and install! hopefully that should help

evankuhl · 06-24-2007, 09:56 PM

I'm going to go back to bootcamp tonight and try again. i did do a driver CD but it still didn't work so i never figured out what the problem was

natedawgg · 06-25-2007, 09:18 AM

did you download the newest version? if you did and that doesnt work, then what i would do is return the harddrive to one partition and start over reinstalling windows. i had lots of problems on my first bootcamp install and when unistalled it all (returning everything to a single partition) and then reinstalled it, everything worked perfect

evankuhl · 06-25-2007, 03:21 PM

i just did, I reinstalled OSX, installed the newest bootcamp, then installed XP.

I still don't have any audio devices. When i go to the control panel>sound I cannot click on anything on the first tab because it says there is no audio device.

I have it plugged into speakers and I have installed the bootcamp drivers (twice). What else can I try? Could it be a corrupted XP version?

evankuhl · 06-25-2007, 03:36 PM

WOOT! just figured it out.

I went to Device Manager. The PCI driver had a yellow caution sign. When I double clicked it I just reinstalled the driver and BOOM! all of a sudden hardware started appearing out of thin air and the computer went crazy with balloons telling me that new hardware was installed!

I followed this,
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....21952&tstart=0
which i found via google

I hope that helps if anyone else has problems with Bootcamp installs.