Hi, I have a 2.0ghz unibody macbook, and i installed windows xp on the boot camp partition, installed drivers, up until here everything was working fine.. i decided it would be a good idea to upgrade to bootcamp 2.1 and then suddenly the boot camp icon in my system tray went away, and so did the nvidia panel (yet i can find them when i go to sys. prefs.) and the sound no longer worked.. now im stuck and i have no sound. I tried reinstalling the drivers using the cd and it still doesnt work.. also when i remove my headphones there is a red light coming from the jack.. how do i get my sound back???
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No Sound in Boot Camp?
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Did you try removing the drivers completely and re-installing them?
Also, that red light is normal when you remove headphones.
Also, that red light is normal when you remove headphones.
The micro switches in the speaker jack are stuck and this is why the red light is on. The macbook speaker jack still thinks you have the headset jack in the port. Try pushing the jack to your headset in and out of the macbook headset port until the red light goes out (hopefully) and then your internal macbook speakers will resume.
ok so that didnt work, and it just made matters worst, now i cant access wireless internet, and the cd doesnt seem to install everything.. its acting really weird and im thinking of just removing the partition, and reinstalling windows.. idk yet, i really cant waste the time.. does anybody have any suggestions on what to do now?
How are you installing the drivers may I ask? I'm asking because I've installed the drivers dozen's of times without any problems, however... on occassion sometimes the wrong window would open to install drivers... therefore it would not successfully install ANYTHING.
im installing the drivers using the leopard cd that came with my macbook.. i installed them initially with this cd, and it worked until i upgraded to boot camp 2.1, where the sound stopped working, the i followed the advice here and it just screwed it up even more, cuz now my wireless isn't working and i keep getting new hardware found windows and such.. what does it mean when it says "remove bootcamp services" in windows when im inserting the leopard cd (its either repair/upgrade or remove)
That means it wants to remove the bootcamp services.. lol. Maybe when you removed it from Add/Remove programs it didn't remove everything.
I would suggest hitting that button and letting the Leopard disc remove everything, then installing everything again and not updating anything.
