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No sound in vista and olny half ram

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shaggy6734

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So i have a macbook pro and used bootcamp and installed vista home premium on a partition. Then I used the OS disc that came with my mac to install all the drivers for windows. There is a start up sound and that is all. It does not give me an option to adjust the sound when i click on the volume icon either. Not to sure what to do. I even have tried to reinstall all the drivers and still no change. I have updated vista also.

Also it only shows a little over 2gb of ram and I have 4 on it. Anyone know why for either of these?
 
shaggy6734 said:
So i have a macbook pro and used bootcamp and installed vista home premium on a partition. Then I used the OS disc that came with my mac to install all the drivers for windows. There is a start up sound and that is all. It does not give me an option to adjust the sound when i click on the volume icon either. Not to sure what to do. I even have tried to reinstall all the drivers and still no change. I have updated vista also.

Also it only shows a little over 2gb of ram and I have 4 on it. Anyone know why for either of these?
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The sound looks like a driver issue.
For the RAM issue, what type of Vista are you using, 64 or 32bit?
 
mgartner0622 said:
The sound looks like a driver issue.
For the RAM issue, what type of Vista are you using, 64 or 32bit?
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A 32 bit SHOULD recognize 4gigs since that is the limit it can address, so he should be seeing all 4gigs. But I concur, could be a driver issue and Vista does not like to play nice at all.
 
from what i've been reading with the new mbp and bootcamp. Vista is no longer supported by Apple. Windows 7 is the only windows they support apparently. Don't quote me though. However i was going through the same thing, but also with networking problems
 
I am using the 32 bit os. And I was poking around and tried to update the driver and t did not work as it was up to date. So I rolled it back a version and it works now as far as room goes it is showing 2230 mb's of ram in the properties so not to sure on that one.
 
take it back

sound does not work and now there is a red light shinig out of headphone jack lol....
 
Honestly, it is probably Vista. That OS has some of the most bizarre problems. I've seen it do errors that I didn't know computers could make resulting in even weirder outcomes.
 
I would

I would totally use xp if I had it around but my other half had vista so thats what got put on the partition. I spose I can game without sound really not the end of the world. lol
 
shaggy6734 said:
I would totally use xp if I had it around but my other half had vista so thats what got put on the partition. I spose I can game without sound really not the end of the world. lol
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I'm not 100% sure on this, but I've heard Microsoft will let you downgrade your Vista for XP.
 
xp

Unfortunately I do not have an xp disc to downgrade to. I got it to serve the purpose that I need it to.
 
DemSpursBro said:
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I've heard Microsoft will let you downgrade your Vista for XP.
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No drivers for windows xp are available for the newer macs, he's stuck with 7 if he wants to have his hardware fully supported.
 
Wait. Let me get this straight you have a macbook pro and you install vista? Are you sure you've got your sanity chip fully screwed in?
 
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