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Can't install Boot Camp drivers in Windows
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After a lot of hassle I finally managed to install Windows XP on MBA using Boot Camp.
Now when it comes to installing the Mac Drivers using the Leopard DVD (10.5) I'm stumped. I put the disk in the superdrive, it autoruns. Install Boot Camp, okey everything is working fine. I click install and the progress bar fills, at the very end of the progress bar when it's "Installing Broadcom wireless" I get a flash of blue screen with some text (too fast to read) and the MBA restarts. It starts Windows but before it completely starts it checks the disk for consistency. I've tried this at least 4 times and this happens everytime.
Now I'm in Windows and it's like nothing ever happened, no mac drivers, no boot camp in the system tray, no nothing.
I have NO idea what to do. Please help!
PS. OS X still works fine. I can choose what operating system to run by holding options. It's just the mac driver installation that is the problem.
PSS. I'm running Service Pack 2 so it's not that
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If you can't install them from the disk, download the newer versions of the drivers from Apple's web site in the Downloads section (Bootcamp version 2.1). If that still won't install, there could be a problem with your Windows install. How much free space do you have on the Windows partition with that tiny MBA disk?
Steve
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it gave the blue screen flashing by full of error messages, then nothing. I tried downloading boot camp 2.1, but when i double-clicked to run that, nothing happened. I installed most of the drivers manually and many functionalities of my mac seem to be working in windows (MBP hardware), but still don't have the boot camp control panel in windows, apparently it installs that at the end of the overall process of installing drivers, etc. oh, nor do I have wireless under windows (I guess that's what broadcomm is supposed to give!) I went to broadcomm website to find a driver, but it gave a list of about 30 pc/windows hardware choices and I have no idea which one to pick....
(I had everything successfully up and running on XP Home Edition; just came across the problem when I reformatted and installed XP Professional.) I have a 20 gig partition for Windoze; it shows only 4.4 being used and the rest available....
any help will be appreciated! thanks!!
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You should be able to drill down into the folder structure of the Leopard disc and find things like the Control Panel applet and the appropriate wireless driver. And yes, Broadcomm is indeed a potential vendor for your wireless hardware, but you can find out exactly under Windows using the Device Manager (under System). It'll be one of the items in the device list that has an exclamation point after it.
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