No sound on windows 10 (2012 mbp)

[anonnymous]

hi, my sound doesn't work. i checked the drivers and they have a yellow exclamation mark in a triangle. i have seen people fix this with software on the mac side but i no longer have macos on this computer at all, how can i fix this from within windows 10? i have a red x next to the audio settings in the taskbar.
i have been having this issue for 3 months now lol

 

[SB1500]

Do your speakers work on the macOS side of things? The next step I'd take it reinstalling Windows and the Boot Camp drivers on the Windows end. Just backup Windows to an external hard drive if you've got one or manually backup your files before the reboot. And/Or just remove entirely the Boot Camp partition and re-set it up.

There are probably other things people regularly using Windows 10 / Boot Camp can add that don't involve re-doing it so much but that's the best I can advise.

Is Windows 10 supported on your Mac model's Boot Camp list of supported OS's? As this might be why the drivers won't work on W10. I remember running Windows 7 on my Mid 2012 13" around a decade ago. Windows 10 came out in 2015, I suspect Apple might have only added official Boot Camp support for Retina MacBook Pros and above? Could be wrong.

 

[chrfr]

hi, my sound doesn't work. i checked the drivers and they have a yellow exclamation mark in a triangle. i have seen people fix this with software on the mac side but i no longer have macos on this computer at all, how can i fix this from within windows 10? i have a red x next to the audio settings in the taskbar.
i have been having this issue for 3 months now lol

Did you install the Boot camp drivers at all?

 

[chrfr]

Is Windows 10 supported on your Mac model's Boot Camp list of supported OS's? As this might be why the drivers won't work on W10. I remember running Windows 7 on my Mid 2012 13" around a decade ago. Windows 10 came out in 2015, I suspect Apple might have only added official Boot Camp support for Retina MacBook Pros and above? Could be wrong.

Win 10 runs perfectly well on the 2012 MacBooks with no extra effort to get the Bootcamp drivers to load.

 

[GH1852]

hi, my sound doesn't work. i checked the drivers and they have a yellow exclamation mark in a triangle. i have seen people fix this with software on the mac side but i no longer have macos on this computer at all, how can i fix this from within windows 10? i have a red x next to the audio settings in the taskbar.
i have been having this issue for 3 months now lol

I think I know what's going on for you. I have a 2012 MacBook Pro, also, and I've experienced your problem. The audio drivers for Windows 10 won't work unless you install Windows in legacy (BIOS) mode. In other words, a UEFI installation leads to the issue you're describing. If the Mac OS is present, as with Boot Camp, the disk is formatted as a GUID disk, not MBR. And Boot Camp Assistant creates a special hybrid MBR that allows Windows to be installed in legacy mode, and audio works. So if your disk has a 200 MB EFI partition, and you didn't run Boot Camp assistant, and you did a UEFI Windows 10 installation, you won't have sound. Let me know how you installed Windows in the first place.

Someone has figured out a really complicated workaround to get sound to work on a 2012 MBP without creating a hybrid MBR. And I think I can find it again. There is also a utility named GPT Fdisk that can be used to create a hybrid MBR that will allow Windows 10 to be installed in legacy (BIOS) mode so that sound works. I've used that myself. But BY FAR the easiest approach would be to install something like macOS Sierra on a really small partition on the the same drive, maybe 30 GB, and run Boot Camp Assistant to reinstall Windows.

 

[benthewraith]

Sound is breaking on Windows 10 Boot Camp regardless of hardware. I'm not sure Apple is even able to fix it at this point, it seems like Microsoft is breaking **** with Secure Boot and Apple doesn't want to enable TPM 2.0. I know that those running Sonoma are especially having trouble with Boot Camp, which shouldn't be the case since it's in a separate partition unless Sonoma does things to UEFI that would prevent Secure Boot from working properly.

Either way, Boot Camp's days are limited to Sonoma launch.