Good evening. On Intel-based HP 17-by2000 laptop, UefiSeven 1.30 (the latest version I've found until now) allows Win7 boot. I wrote "boot" because I applied a fully updated Win7 installation sysprepped some time ago, only patching the drivers needed to make it work. Obviously, not all drivers can be installed, due to the laptop's design (specifically for Win10 and above, surely NOT BELOW it). Some of the issues I've found are related to: - the secondary, entry-level, muxless AMD Radeon R7 440M GPU: on next boot after installation, it gets the yellow triangle (device stopped due to reported problems; I can live without it, being the Intel graphics more powerful than this crappy one provided by the "new HP marketing practices"! After all, I bought the laptop only because it was the only one available with 17" display at an affordable price and it wasn't needed for hyper-gaming or other power-hungry similar activities - I have my supertower rig, for that ); - the boot process: with /SOS boot parameter, it doesn't display the black screen with Windows version, build and Service Pack, along with the number of processors and the memory available. Usually, it should resemble like this: Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Version 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) 8 System Processors [7992 MB Memory] Multiprocessor Kernel There's also an issue with the brightness: despite the Fn keys actually change the brightness slider's value in Windows Mobility Center, the eDP monitor brightness does not physically change and stays at its maximum level. This is totally uncomfortable because it makes my eyes burn, and it also uselessly drains the battery more quickly, but I suspect it is more related to the Intel graphics driver than UefiSeven.
So I have an HP Pro book with a Ryzen 7 pro 5850 with integrated Radeon Gpu. Ive been able to actually install Windows 7 using UefiSeven, but I do not seem to have access to a efi shell. So I tried using hirens boot disk to rename the file, but it is nowhere to be found on the HDD. There is no EFI file folder on the HDD. Am I missing something?
assign the efi system partition a drive letter by using diskpart usually the esp is the first partition of your hard drive so select the first volume of disk 0 (boot disk containing install) detailed instructions here
Ya, I was able to assign the drive letter and swap the files around, but it still does what everyone else is reporting. It freezes at the Windows flag animation....sigh. A damn shame M$ had to ruin their best OS, IMO.
did you make sure to swap/add files correctly? this is unlikely to solve the problem but some efi systems would boot from the same efi application (such as ezwindslic/windslic where system still boots from bootmgfw.efi but it’s supposed to boot from windslic efi file; only happens on my uefi for some reason) so try booting from bootx64.efi (try different efi options that say windows boot manager or something) otherwise, sorry that you got bad luck. if only m$ released windows 7 with modern uefi gop and not ancient video BIOS!!
That's almost impossible. Unless UefiSeven can patch bootmgfw.efi like Flashbootpro, instead of creating as a separate a file.
It is actually possible if you somehow put it into extracted ISO and put uefiseven bootx64.efi and install.wim (but how can it be done?)
what did you do to get it working? have tried UEFISeven on my HP Omen 25L (Ryzen 5 5600G, B550) and it restarts after loading disk.sys.
Disk.sys is Microsofts generic storage driver. Are you using a non modified windows 7 install disk without integrated USB, NVME drivers? Windows 7 should install great on your specs. Ive had it running on an X570 MSI, and a Ryzen 3900x
i think lol2039 loaded into safe mode (probably because normal mode failed) and then it BSODs (in UEFI GOP, a red bar) but he couldn't see it it's either inaccessible_boot_device or a non-acpi compliant bsod if it's simply stuck on "starting windows" or safe mode file load (disk.sys is the final load) then it doesn't crash but doesn't have the vga driver output
UefiSeven is useless in your PC。 You can set verbose=1 in UefiSeven.ini, then you can see [Unable to find a way to unlock memory at C0000 & Unable to unlock VGA ROM memory at C0000]. For AMD, you must set CSM enabled and have a BIOS that fully supports ACPI. If the above conditions are not met, you can only consider acquiring HP.