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Major MBP Touchbar boot camp problems

bbates123

bbates123

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My new 13" rMBP with touhcbar is not feeling the love for Windows under Boot Camp. What's strange is that it's working fine on my non touchbar 2016 rMBP. Windows 10 installs fine but as soon as I boot into Windows the screen flickers terribly, to the point that it's unusable. If I move the mouse constantly I can read what's on the screen. Tried several different builds of Windows 10 to no avail.

Has anybody got boot camp to work on their touchbar Macbook?
 
This is currently with 2nd level support at Apple
[doublepost=1479322032][/doublepost]More info for anybody who cares. When the laptop is plugged into power it doesn't flicker. It also doesn't flicker if the mouse is moving constantly. The moment you stop moving the mouse it starts flickering again. Again, this is only an issue with the Touchbar version and I suspect due to the different graphics.
 
bbates123 said:
This is currently with 2nd level support at Apple
[doublepost=1479322032][/doublepost]More info for anybody who cares. When the laptop is plugged into power it doesn't flicker. It also doesn't flicker if the mouse is moving constantly. The moment you stop moving the mouse it starts flickering again. Again, this is only an issue with the Touchbar version and I suspect due to the different graphics.
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Mine is doing the same! Will you let me know what they advise? I appreciate you!
 
Thanks for the update.
Going to keep tabs on this because I plan on installing windows thru bootcamp.

Hopefully this get resolved....
 
Does it also do this on an external display? Also, have you tried downloading the latest AMD Radeon driver on the website (not Apple's or Microsoft's).

Doh - just realized you have the 13-inch rMB Pro. Disregard!
 
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I have another issue with bootcamp, i use bootcamp to install windows and the right speaker start producing buzzling(crackling) sound!!! It sounds like something broke inside the speaker. Everytime i log in the windows try doing sth with the speaker driver either the left or right speaker produce buzzling sound. I have to return it right now. Right now both my speakers crash both in macOs and in windows and they can only produce half of the original volume.
 
It really sucks..but it reminds me in a way of when the non touch bar versions came out a few weeks ago...bootcamp drivers weren't available for download for 2 or 3 days after the laptop was available for sale. Apple does not seem to have their chit together when it comes to bootcamp - I can't believe this wasn't thoroughly tested by somebody. So odd that it's fine when the laptop is plugged into power.

To answer your question yes, the same thing happens when an external monitor is plugged in. Also, loaded the latest Intel Iris 550 drivers and fiddled with power settings, all to no avail.
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tianhuailiu said:
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I have another issue with bootcamp, i use bootcamp to install windows and the right speaker start producing buzzling(crackling) sound!!! It sounds like something broke inside the speaker. Everytime i log in the windows try doing sth with the speaker driver either the left or right speaker produce buzzling sound. I have to return it right now. Right now both my speakers crash both in macOs and in windows and they can only produce half of the original volume.
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One thing I haven't had issues with is my audio. Did you install bootcamp on the touchbar version? And did you have issues with your display flickering?
 
bbates123 said:
It really sucks..but it reminds me in a way of when the non touch bar versions came out a few weeks ago...bootcamp drivers weren't available for download for 2 or 3 days after the laptop was available for sale. Apple does not seem to have their chit together when it comes to bootcamp - I can't believe this wasn't thoroughly tested by somebody. So odd that it's fine when the laptop is plugged into power.

To answer your question yes, the same thing happens when an external monitor is plugged in. Also, loaded the latest Intel Iris 550 drivers and fiddled with power settings, all to no avail.
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One thing I haven't had issues with is my audio. Did you install bootcamp on the touchbar version? And did you have issues with your display flickering?
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Yes, i use bootcamp to install windows. No issues with display flickering in windows. I think both our issues are bootcamp drivers issues and apple seem do not update the bootcamp to fit the newest windows system and you are 13 and i am 15 maybe that is the difference.
 
I had a Lenovo laptop that started doing a very similar thing after an update - it worked fine on power but on battery it flickered like crazy and was unusable. I'm guessing it's a driver issue but I've retired that machine now so don't know if it was ever fixed
 
i think these are things that Apple needs to fix with new bootcamp drivers for windows 10,i wonder if windows 8 is working fine?
These are drivers/software issue and not hardware gpu/speaker issues
 
fokmik said:
i think these are things that Apple needs to fix with new bootcamp drivers for windows 10,i wonder if windows 8 is working fine?
These are drivers/software issue and not hardware gpu/speaker issues
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However, the buzzling sound caused by the software will actually harm the hardware (it will break the speaker). Right now my speakers are only half the volume of the original volume whether in macOs or in windows because of the driver issues caused in windows. I think the problem is that apple did not update the bootcamp driver to fit for the newest windows system.
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soulreaver99 said:
Do you guys have the same issues in Parallels? Try that. If you don't have it, it's a 30 day full trial i think. Thanks!
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It is holiday return policy. you can return until Jan/8th and I already order a new one.
 
Just dmg all of them with this and lets all return them. And again install windows, broke the speakers and return them until Apple is faced with a very very tragic image quality
 
tianhuailiu said:
Yes, i use bootcamp to install windows. No issues with display flickering in windows. I think both our issues are bootcamp drivers issues and apple seem do not update the bootcamp to fit the newest windows system and you are 13 and i am 15 maybe that is the difference.
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I'm guessing that's the thing because you're AMD and I'm Intel. Apple really needs more QA with this stuff...this is unacceptable.
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soulreaver99 said:
Do you guys have the same issues in Parallels? Try that. If you don't have it, it's a 30 day full trial i think. Thanks!
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I've tried Parallels on the non TB version but the battery hit was horrible. The cpu was constantly running hot running some process. VMWare fusion was better but not by much. Also I found the trackpad experience to be brutal.
 
Done we are on bootcamp, I have a follow up issue. I stalled windows 10 using my 2012 iMac but it refuses to boot on the new MacBook Pro.

Works well and I'm able to both using it on a late 2012 iMac and a 2014 MacBook Air with zero issues.

The error I get is bless tool is unable to select startup disk. Also unable to select it by holding option key during boot.

I did try to reset the pram and the smc but no help.

I'm 99% sure it is a software issue but was wondering if anyone is able to load from external windows.

Note. Also tried windows 7 from my old computer.
 
bbates123 said:
My new 13" rMBP with touhcbar is not feeling the love for Windows under Boot Camp. What's strange is that it's working fine on my non touchbar 2016 rMBP. Windows 10 installs fine but as soon as I boot into Windows the screen flickers terribly, to the point that it's unusable. If I move the mouse constantly I can read what's on the screen. Tried several different builds of Windows 10 to no avail.

Has anybody got boot camp to work on their touchbar Macbook?
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I am having the exact same flickering issue with the MBP 13 when it's not plugged in. I've tried everything from repartitioning the drive to updating the drivers. Please advise if you hear of a solution. I plan to call Apple tomorrow and log a support issue.
 
scottaz76 said:
I am having the exact same flickering issue with the MBP 13 when it's not plugged in. I've tried everything from repartitioning the drive to updating the drivers. Please advise if you hear of a solution. I plan to call Apple tomorrow and log a support issue.
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Please do. The more people that call this to Apple's attention the better.
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fokmik said:
i wonder if under windows 7 or 8 everything is fine ?!
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I'm pretty sure that Sierra only supports Windows 10
 
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bbates123 said:
Please do. The more people that call this to Apple's attention the better.
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I logged a case with Apple. I did a screen share with one of their senior support analysts and we tried a variety of things, but had no luck. I sent him my PC info and video of the issue. He is going to escalate it to engineering. One thing to note, when I booted into Safe Mode the flickering stopped. Once I hear something I will post to this thread.
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They called me back yesterday and had me do a data capture. We'll see if today brings any new news.
 
bbates123 said:
They called me back yesterday and had me do a data capture. We'll see if today brings any new news.
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thank you for the update! I tried going through support and they were not helpful at all. I even gave them the link to this article. They told me to call MICROSOFT, as it was a bootcamp/windows drivers issue. I spent 45 minutes going back and forth and they never put my same issue in with second level support.
 
mikeo007 said:
Does the flickering happen on a fresh Windows 10 install before you install the bootcamp drivers? Or is it only after you install Apple's drivers that you experience the issue.

Could also try intel's beta drivers to see if it is actually a chipset driver issue or not. http://ark.intel.com/products/91166/Intel-Core-i5-6267U-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3_30-GHz#@downloads

But if it's flickering before you even install bootcamp drivers, I'd suspect a firmware update would be needed to fix it.
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They don't give you a choice anymore. They have enhanced the new boot camp process. In the past you used to have to partition the drive and go through a variety of steps to install windows and the drivers. It was very manual. Now once you partition the drive Apple automatically reboots into Windows and installs the drivers. If you uninstall the Intel driver Windows recognizes it and immediately downloads the updated driver. The interesting thing is if I boot into Safe Mode the flickering issue goes away. I believe it is a driver issue.
 
scottaz76 said:
They don't give you a choice anymore. They have enhanced the new boot camp process. In the past you used to have to partition the drive and go through a variety of steps to install windows and the drivers. It was very manual. Now once you partition the drive Apple automatically reboots into Windows and installs the drivers. If you uninstall the Intel driver Windows recognizes it and immediately downloads the updated driver. The interesting thing is if I boot into Safe Mode the flickering issue goes away. I believe it is a driver issue.
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Oh I didn't realize they'd changed bootcamp that much. I'm still on a 2010, so still stuck on an old version of bootcamp. It should still let you install Intel's beta chipset driver after the fact, if it's actually a chipset issue and not something else.
 
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