Windows Vista
I has been an awfully long time since I last posted here. Many things I could’ve written about, maybe I will in the next few weeks.
Anyway, this post is about Windows Vista. More specifically, installing Windows Vista Business (64bit) onto a Macbook Pro (Santa Rosa).
The Apple Bootcamp drivers that came with my laptop don’t support Windows Vista 64bit so I had to do some digging around to find the drivers that worked and get everything running smoothly.
This information is out there on the web but I found some of the instructions on exactly which driver to choose a little had to understand. Below is a list of the drivers I used to get Vista Business 64bit working on this Macbook Pro.
Video
Hardware: nVIDIA 8600M GT with 256MB RAM
Drivers: nVIDIA ForceWare X 167.62
Audio
Drivers: RealTek R190
Keyboard/Fan
Drivers: Input Remapper 1.0.04
NB: Screen backlight control is not supported on the nVIDIA card yet
Wireless
Drivers: Atheros v7.6.0.83
Ethernet
Drivers: Marvel Yukon v10.57.3.3
This information is mainly from two sources:
http://rumblingsfromdeveloper.blogspot.com/2007/12/macbook-pro-and-vista-64bit-x64-issues.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=149395
With these drivers I got a Windows Experience Index of 4.9
Processor: 5.2
RAM: 4.9
Desktop Graphics: 5.9
Gaming Graphics: 5.5
Primary Hard Disk: 4.9
Alex Taylor is a web developer living and working in
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 pm
What’s up with this cocomment business? You know it has ads and stuff right? How can you stand for this? I am aghast.
Oh and good job I’m sure this article will crop up in google at some point, you’ve probably made someone happy.
And really, what is up with this cocomment nonsense?
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
It was part of the theme I have installed, it didn’t have ads when I put the theme on but it loaded all that by Javascript. Anyway, I ripped it out, it was kinda weird.
Indeed, if anything it is a reference for future me should I decide to reinstall it later.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:00 am
RIP cocomment