bootcamp- 20inch imac sound trouble

[yiddo]

sigmatel drivers not working for sound. Anyone else having this problem? graphics etc are great, just need sound now!!

[davidwinter]

Not working for me either.

I get the following error when trying to install:

This system does not support the driver you are attempting to install.

Is this the message others are getting, also?

[ampmhoodlum]

I can confirm sound works on the 20" Intel Imac I have. :) With internal speakers

[davidwinter]

I can confirm sound works on the 20" Intel Imac I have. :) With internal speakers

Did you install the drivers manually? Or were they installed automatically?

[03blueSI]

Are you using seperate Sigmatel drivers or the ones that you burn from the bootcamp driver CD? If they are not the ones from the driver CD this could be the reason

[davidwinter]

They are the ones installed from the Boot Camp driver CD.

I've also tried downloading the ones from intel.com - they don't work either.

[cnakeitaro]

Mine works. I didn't install any drivers manually. I just let the driver installer do everything. Might be a stupid question, but did you reboot?

[davidwinter]

Yes, I rebooted :)

What type of Windows install CD did you use to install Windows?

[kinggodzilla]

Just putting my experience in...

Did the Bootcamp install. Used an XPPro sp2 VL cd to install. Sound works on the internal speakers. Plug in external speakers and sound still plays on the internal speakers as well as the external.

Check the control panel applet and it says that the headphone port needed help (had the question mark on it), so I set it to Jack is Ok. Still no good.

Also noticed that the boot up ding sound plays on the internal speakers now.

[mr breaker]

Just putting my experience in...

Did the Bootcamp install. Used an XPPro sp2 VL cd to install. Sound works on the internal speakers. Plug in external speakers and sound still plays on the internal speakers as well as the external.

Check the control panel applet and it says that the headphone port needed help (had the question mark on it), so I set it to Jack is Ok. Still no good.

Also noticed that the boot up ding sound plays on the internal speakers now.


I am experiencing the same on my mac mini. Pretty annoying having the internal speaker on all the time. Anyone know of a fix?

But kudos to Apple....it's so NICE being able to actually restart and shut down windows.

[jmsantos]

I just posted on another thread with the same problem.. the internal audio constantly playing even though I have speakers (or headphones) in the headphone jack. I have a 20" iMac. Please let me know if anyone figures out how to turn it off. It's pretty annoying... but really the only problem I've experienced during the whole Boot Camp process. Good job Apple!

[jmsantos]

Well.. I probably should have checked the Apple website earlier... cause they have this question answered:

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While booted into Windows XP, I still hear sound coming from the built-in speaker even with headphones plugged in.

The Boot Camp Beta audio driver for Windows XP does not currently support rerouting sound.
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Guess we'll have to wait for the next version of the drivers. Poo.

[davidwinter]

Just putting my experience in...

Did the Bootcamp install. Used an XPPro sp2 VL cd to install. Sound works on the internal speakers. Plug in external speakers and sound still plays on the internal speakers as well as the external.

Check the control panel applet and it says that the headphone port needed help (had the question mark on it), so I set it to Jack is Ok. Still no good.

Also noticed that the boot up ding sound plays on the internal speakers now.

What does VL stand for? What type of version of Windows is that?

[markfc]

Volume Licence, no activation needed.

[nwSimon]

The sound drivers linked here: http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Users/Drivers

Do work with bootcamp and external speakers (I'm using them now :)) You just need to manually install them from the WDM folder as they are not WHQL and the installer will skip them and tell you it's 'finished'.

[compufix]

The sound drivers linked here: http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Users/Drivers

Do work with bootcamp and external speakers (I'm using them now :)) You just need to manually install them from the WDM folder as they are not WHQL and the installer will skip them and tell you it's 'finished'.

But do the internal speakers work with this one, or is it the same as onmac where you ONLY get line/out?

-compufix

[sdavis]

Just FYI - this is how i did it...

Partitioned and formatted my iIMac.
reinstalled OSX - did the updates and firmware updates
installed bootcamp
created drivers CD
set partition to 80GB
reinstalled with XPSP2 Volume License CD
booted into Windows and ran the drivers CD

now the display, internet, bluetooth(although havent tested) and sound drivers all work... even though there are ways around totally formatting, its probably recommended to format and start over whenever you do something like this...

I did have a problem though... i accidentally set the partition to 5GB... so i rebooted, and then removed that partition and started over setting it to 80GB...

Good luck!

[JayMac]

The sound drivers linked here: http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Users/Drivers

Do work with bootcamp and external speakers (I'm using them now :)) You just need to manually install them from the WDM folder as they are not WHQL and the installer will skip them and tell you it's 'finished'.


Could you add some detail to the install method, you lost me at WDM folder :)
I tried installing, did not use the installer, just pointed a driver update to the WDM folder.
Good news...It disabled the internal speaker
Bad News... Lost the sound on external speakers as well.


Also, when using your external speakers is the internal speaker quiet?

[raymo03]

Here's what I did to get the sound working on my 20" iMac (Boot Camp).

I installed everything as Apple said, sound was not working after several reboots. I was unable to install manually because it didn't think I had a supported card.

I opened Device Manager and uninstalled any unknown device, or anything with a ? on it. I then ran the Add Hardware wizard, and it picked up the sound, and is now working fine. I think the problem was an unknown PCI device under System Devices in the device manager.

Good luck.