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I have an iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) that has a 4-pole TRRS headphone/headset combo port. On OS X any headset works nicely (e.g. the Apple iPhone headset with microphone).

On Windows 7 64bit with BootCamp 5.1, the same headset on the same combo port does not work with the driver as delivered by Apple with BootCamp 5.1 (more precise: 5.1.5640 ). Apple phone support just told me it is not their problem, because it works on OS X.
So I tried installing a better driver on my own.

According to the Windows Device Manager, my sound card is a Cirrus Logic CS4206B (AB 07). The closest match I could find on the Cirrus homepage was this one:
http://www.cirrus.com/en/products/cs4207.html
(Go to Resources -> Tools and Software).

The same page is also linked in this related thread, including a step-by-step installation guide, but it doesn't work for me. Did someone get a 4-pole headset to work including the microphone on an iMac with the Cirrus Logic CS4206B (AB 07) sound card?

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Search for CS4206B on Apple support homepage: discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?type=discussion&q=cs4206b – matth Mar 5 '15 at 9:53
    
Asked the same question on discussions.apple.com: discussions.apple.com/thread/6871937 – matth Mar 12 '15 at 16:20
    
Helpful thread: discussions.apple.com/thread/6767136 – matth Mar 13 '15 at 8:00
    
Might be a problem with HDAudio.sys according to MS Troubleshooting Audio: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/… – matth Mar 13 '15 at 10:05
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According to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6767136 this is currently not possible. If someone does get it to work I will happily award a bounty to an answer describing how to do it.

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