Wesley Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 Okay, so, I've been trying literally all day today. I cannot get these things to work. Here is what I've tried - pairing with Apple Boot Camp drivers installed. Pairing with Windows drivers installed. Pairing with the devices already paired in OS X. Pairing with the devices unpaired in OS X (this worked when I had Vista on Boot Camp). Making sure that Windows is fully up-to-date. Making sure that OS X is fully up-to-date. Screaming. The best I've got is the devices being paired by Windows, but then not working. The most frustrating part is that before I installed the Boot Camp drivers, and even during the installation of XP, both worked. Crazy hey... but I tried rolling back the Bluetooth drivers once the Boot Camp drivers stopped it working; but it said no previous driver was installed. Which makes me think that maybe a different driver for a different component broke it. So I'm pretty much out of ideas. I remember it took around a whole day with Vista, using some of the same methods as above... but this time it's just not doing it. I would just stick Vista back on, but my copy is 64Bit which isn't supported, and the work around hack creates a real big problem when it boots (it using a BIOS fake) because it's on Boot Camp - which then fucks up half the time. I'm either going to shoot myself. Or someone else. So please, help save someone's life. Okay, so I finally got this to work. And I'm not even sure what did it. Once the two devices were connected, I went to services - which usually "searches" and then turns up nothing. This time it it came up with the proper input services which I switched on. But, before it didn't and I've done nothing in between apart from posting here... the powers of NE? So, this can be locked. But in case anyone stumbles on this, or if I ever forget... ensure everything on both OS X and XP are up-to-date, delete key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{e0cbf06c-cd8b-4647-bb8a-263b43f0f974}), uninstall the three bluetooth related drivers that Boot Camp installs, install the one driver on the Boot Camp cd, let Windows install the PNA and RFCOMN ones, and then find the devices, using the keys and change the services. Awesome. Bye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian DX Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Apple says "fuck no!" to plug and play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wesley Posted August 20, 2009 Author Share Posted August 20, 2009 A little bit. I suppose. Er... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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