Firmware update fixes Boot Camp issue on mid 2013 MacBook Air

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[Time Published October 11, 2013 at 05:17AM]

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Apple on Thursday posted EFI Firmware Update 2.7, an update aimed specifically at new MacBook Air models made since mid-2013 (that is, the ones equipped with “Haswell” processors).

This update addresses an issue which may cause a black screen to appear when installing Windows 7 or Windows 8 using Boot Camp Assistant if both an external optical drive and USB thumb drive are connected to the system. This update also ensures that the system will boot by default into OS X after installation of Windows 8.

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Zepto Nox A15 (Part 3)

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Windows 7 en de Zepto Nox A15, a great combination!

I had a lot of Blue Screens lately, I’m still not sure why. They appear to happen more often when I’m using my wireless @ university network. But that is still more a feeling then a fact. When I had a couple of BSOD’s at home I decided to install Windows 7. First as Upgrade from Vista then as a clean installation.

Works great! I’m running build 7077 and it works as a charm. Much faster than Vista and it uses a lot less resources;. Currently Windows 7 is using 1793 Mb of my 4093 Mb available memory and the average CPU usage is less than 10% of my Core 2 Duo P8400 (when using outlook, word, minefield (64x firefox), windows live messenger steam and uTorrent).

Installation, first usage.., went without a sweat. The only annoying thing so far is the Windows 7 (I never had it while using Vista) future too use temporal user account settings when ‘something’ went wrong. I’m still not entirely sure when exactly Windows 7 thinks it’s best to intervene.
When I tried to install nVidea’s Windows 7 drivers for desktop GPU’s on my Zepto (which resulted in a BSOD), I was very astound when Windows 7 discovered that I f* something up and repaired it before loading the desktop.

Windows 7 needed to update itself too recognize some of my hardware but all the essential stuff worked right away.

The Zepto Nox,

Like I told, I had enough of all the BSOD’s.. and then I decided to give Windows 7 a try…, a friend of mine thought the BSOD’s where hardware related and I was more thinking of bad drivers. I’m not still not sure. The problem is that I can’t bring my Zepto back too the retailer because I use it almost every day and I’m not sure they can do anything about it.. I used several stress test but they all failed in generating a BSOD.

From start64 I got a link to a (AuthenTec) fingerprint reader driver that works great. Note: when you have installed the driver you need to start <> to configure, without it won’t work.

You can get a legal key from Microsoft here and download Windows 7 using torrents.