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I have a Mid 2011 27" Imac with Windows 8. It works mostly fine with the latest bootcamp drivers, I don't have sound in the integrated sound card since I upgraded from Windows 7, but I use bluetooth headphones anyway. But Windows show two driver updates in Windows Update: an update to the Intel integrated graphics and an update to the SATA AHCI. One of these drivers crashes the system upon install and each reboot thereafter (I identified which once, but forgot).
My problem is that the Windows 8.1 update comes with these drivers and crashes during install on the "Setting up your devices" step. So I'm currently unable to update. Is there any way to block these drivers from being installed with windows 8.1? or a way to replace these with the bootcamp version in the window of time between their installation and their activation?
Edit: Just in case anyone wonders, disabling the device in the device manager won't change the outcome.
Update (28/02/2014): The new version of the bootcamp drivers which officially support windows 8.1 still give me this problem, both updating and installing from scratch.
I'd be very surprised if the SATA drivers were the culprit... When the system crashes what does the Event Viewer say when you've recovered? – Kinnectus – 2014-07-07T06:59:14.360
Somehow, windows seems to think that a driver for another device is a valid update for it, maybe that specific hwid slip into the compatible devices list for the driver. Finally last month I got to solve this though I didn't take note of the steps I took (I didn't think it'd work) so I cannot post a reliable answer to this question. All I can recall is that I did have to update the driver and uninstall it afterwards, maybe booting in safe-mode. – Néstor Hernández Ojeda – 2014-07-08T07:31:14.343
Just so anyone coming here knows: To this day I haven't found a solution to this, I'll probably have to wait until Apple decides to release updated BootCamp Drivers. That's if I haven't sold it when the time comes... – Néstor Hernández Ojeda – 2014-01-20T15:39:50.837