Hi All!
So my next three posts are a little out of the ordinary for me, but might be useful to you. Well, this one might be useful to you if you happen to have an older MacBook (late ’08 for me) as your primary computer and really really really want to play Star Wars: The Old Republic online. Specifically, if you get past using bootcamp to partition your disc, install windows, and get the “Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer” when installing the drivers from a disc.
I tried everything I could Google to access the drivers on the disc and the only thing that actually worked was super simple. I found it here. I had to tweak the command lines to make it work for me though.
So, here is my tweaked version of the work around:
1. Boot into Windows and enter the disc you made during the bootcamp install with the supporting drivers on it.
2. Click start (or the windows icon in the lower left of your screen)
then go to “all programs”
then go to “accessories”
then right click on “command prompt” and choose “run as administrator”
the commands you want to enter are:
D: then press enter
cd drivers\apple then press enter
drivers\apple\bootcamp64.msi then press enter
That should do it for you.
At least I hope it does.
May the force be with you! The dark side of the force, that is… muahahahahah!
**If this solution doesn’t work for you, please check out the comments below. It seems India’s solution has been useful to others. Feel free to add your solutions below as well!**
Thanks for the write up! I didn’t work exactly, I had to some tweaking of my own it turns out but I ended up getting passed the error message. Heres how I got passed it:
D: (each new line represents when to hit enter)
CD boot camp
CD drivers
CD apple
msiexec /i bootcamp64.msi
This automatically started the process for the cd to run and override the error message of x64 unsupported on this model. With this tutorial and some searching and tinkering of my own It worked!! Hopefully my addition can help out someone else if they have my issue where it says paths no found.
THANK YOU FOR THE RESPONSE (ABOVE ME)
Thanks so much for sharing your workaround India! I’m glad you found a solution Swappy! I’ll update the post to direct users to India’s comment.
Thanks, this was the only solution that worked for me on a Macbook Late 2008 Model Running Mountain Lion and Boot Camp 5.0.0 and Windows 7.
So glad it worked for you!
so I was finally able to run the command prompt as admin by intalling an optical mouse (couldn’t get trackpad or the blue tooth keyboard to allow me to right click). I thought all the drivers installed correctly, but the icons in the devices panel all still have ! = troubleshooting issues. Am I missing something here?
Got it to work on Mountain lion (USB install) took forever. (windows install, not apple driver updates). At least on my setup, from another usb driver, the files were under a folder windowssupport. I navigated to Drivers\apple and entered bootcamp64.msi. Worked like a charm.
Thanks so much for this great help after surching two days to install bluetooth-host-controller driver for windows7 on my iMac 24′.
Thank you guys! The collaboration of above article with India comment helped a lot!