Windows 8 on MacBook Pro

6th June 2012, 04:12 PM |#81

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I have ATI GPU. Stil freezes

There goes the nvidia theory.

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7th June 2012, 06:30 AM |#82

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Also, I'd like to say that I've had similar problems on a non-mac back in vista-days I think it was, which was caused by the hdd. What happened was that the computer got really hot (bad fan), and the disk had some sort of safty-feature which made it "disconnect" from my computer because of the heat. This was ofcause the C: disk with windows on, and windows itself wasn't particularly happy about it. The first symptoms was that I could only switch to recent applications (in-memory), then the pc started hanging, and after what I think I timed to be exactly 30 seconds from the first symptoms arose (ie. the disk ejected) I got a BSOD. On win8 on the mac I don't get BSOD, but I still get the same problem with apps partially working during a short while before the freeze, which makes me think that it's related to some drivers in regards to disk/IO or maybe even motherboard. Anyways, if it helps to know, when the win8 freezes music playing (using spotify) starts to loop (I think it was about 1 sec interval).

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14th June 2012, 12:55 AM |#83

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Man, am I glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. I'm on a 27" iMac.. late 2011 edition. Same exact problem as describe above.. I've tried:

- Not installing the boot camp drivers (4.0)
- Installing the boot camp drivers (4.0)
- Updating the AMD GPU drivers to Windows 8 compatible (from AMD)
- Not installing anything, just a fresh install and just using IE to browse around for a bit
- Disconnected all peripherals except a keyboard and mouse (even tried different keyboards and mice)
- Tried doing a Windows 7 install, installed boot camp drivers, then ugprade to Windows 8 release preview

It's a hard "freeze" or "lock up" - you have to hold the power button down in order to shut it down. It happens anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 hours and no matter what I do. As the poster described above, if I have music playing - get's stuck in a half-second loop.. to which I hear my wife in the other room (oh my god, stop that!)

Guess we are just stuck for awhile :/

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Originally Posted by marcbollinger

Oh, and I have the AMD as well: ATI Radeon HD 4850

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14th June 2012, 04:17 AM |#84

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Could it be the NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Ethernet driver, or the NVIDIA nforce PCI System Management or NVIDIA nForce System Management Controller?

Wondering if this is somehow related: forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=228524 - Sounds like the chipset drivers from Nvidia could be the issue, not the GPU.. bad news is, no windows 8 chipset drivers for nvidia yet.

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14th June 2012, 09:30 AM |#85

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So basically you the problem is the lack of drivers for Windows 8 and Apple hardware.

I'm a Mac user too so I hope this helps.

The first thing to try would be to install Windows 7 first, and then upgrade from there.

If that fails, then the OS should still be usable, although your FaceTime camera and Magic Mouse scrolling might not work.

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14th June 2012, 05:41 PM |#86

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Originally Posted by jji7skyline

I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than that - If you look in the history of this thread, the issue is hard locking, not non-functional features like trackpad or facetime camera.

That issue appears to be surrounding nVidia chipset drivers

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14th June 2012, 06:22 PM |#87

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Originally Posted by marcbollinger

Yeap. Appears to be. But newer Macs has no GPU at all. Intel HD 3000 doesnt count.

Someone here in the thread said he still have the freeze even with this chipset.

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14th June 2012, 07:05 PM |#88

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Originally Posted by mikeeam

Yeap. Appears to be. But newer Macs has no GPU at all. Intel HD 3000 doesnt count.

Someone here in the thread said he still have the freeze even with this chipset.

Yeah, The iMac I have has the AMD Radeon card in it - those drivers appear to be ok.. it's the actual chipset drivers (ethernet, co-processor, sata controller, etc.) that might be the culprit.

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15th June 2012, 05:14 AM |#89

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Maybe try finding the drivers manually?

I've just installed Windows 8 release preview on my iMac and there are no driver problems with anything whatsoever.

Are you sure that you've downloaded the drivers and installed them properly? :/

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16th June 2012, 12:04 AM |#90

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Well, I have a bit of good news - I was able to get the freezing to stop.

I went forward with the upgrade from Windows 7 - everything installed normally, but as soon as I launched Zune (which usually triggers it), sure enough, hard lock.

Looking in my programs list, I noticed two nVidia packages that were installed - neither of these seemed to be necessary for me (since I have the AMD GPU), so I uninstalled them both and rebooted.

I've been going a full day now without a hard lock.. including listening to Zune all day, playing games, VPN tunneling, etc.

Not sure if this will solve for everyone, since some of you guys might actually require those nVidia drivers to function.

Marc

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17th June 2012, 02:12 AM |#91

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Parallels 7 worked well for me

I was eager to install the Windows Release Preview (Build 8400) on my late 2011 15" Macbook Pro, but I read that the boot camp drivers were problematic.

So at first, not wanting to part with any money, I tried VirtualBox. But I found that many of the apps would hang, and thus the OS was pretty much unusable.

So I then tried Parallels 7 after reading that they have added support for the Windows 8 Preview Release. It has worked pretty well so far. So for those that have newer Macs with enough RAM, its been a pretty good option to test drive the release preview.

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