Win7 on ASUS E502N Intel N4200

Hello. I have been trying to get windows 7 running on this laptop for about 40 hours now combined, and I can't get past the Starting windows logo.
I have tried 10 iso's some of them were pre-patched some of them were patched by myself using uefiseven and I even bought Flashboot Pro. Nothing is working.
Flashboot pro seemed promising but it doesnt even go into setup.
No os worked with uefiseven and some pre-patched iso's went into setup normally but after first reboot (writing to registry) it restarts and hangs on starting windows.
Uefiseven shows that its working so I am assuming this is some sort of a driver issue.
I am installing everything onto my Crucial MX500 500GB ssd.
Any help would be appreciated I really need Windows 7 for hobby related reasons

 

Thanks for replying, logo rolling is finished and it still animated (it likedims a tiny bit and gets a tiny bit brighter).

Unfortunately i cannot check if numlock or caps lock work as they do not have their dedicated light indicators on the keyboard.

Can you elaborate how to check display adaptor driver with mstsc.exe?

 

Well update-ish:
after I understod that mstsc.exe is remote connection, I have found that my LAN controller chipset is RTL810XE through Linux.

1. Downloaded Windows 7 drivers from realtek website and installed using DISM through windows installer USB.
2. Connected Ethernet cable, yet Router never assigns IP address to the Win7 Laptop.

When booting using Safe mode, a black box appears in front of the LOADED: driver ......... and its black. Spamming Enter restarts the system. Makes me think its a BSOD.

Is there a way to somehow log which driver is causing this issue?

 

Update 2:
The OS is alive in the background behind the Starting windows.

I made a simple .bat script that pings my system time waits 2 seconds then pings again and writes everything to heartbeat.txt

Spoiler: heartbeat.bat

:loop
echo %time% >> C:\heartbeat.txt
timeout /t 2
goto loop

I ran the script for 5 mins and got this in my C:\heartbeat.txt

Spoiler: heartbeat.txt

11:38:01.73
11:38:03.18
11:38:05.17
11:38:07.15
11:38:09.14
11:38:11.12
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Now the obvious problem. My laptop's keyboard and trackpad wont work because they go through Intel's I/O drivers made for the apollo lake. Nobody has backported it from windows 10 and nobody will.

So I decided I will just install usbxhci from the forums. I used dism installed the drivers and registered them to HKLM\OFFLINE. Yet the keyboard lights up on BIOS but dies when "Starting windows" shows up.

Same happens to Realtek LAN drivers I found for Windows 7. My router just does not assign the IP address to the computer.

setupapi.dev.log shows that the Realtek Ethernet Controller is identified by Windows as (PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8136)
But its marked with CONFIGFLAG_REINSTALL. The same probably is happening to usbxchi.

Any help would be appreciated. Especially on how should I fix the graphics driver issue.

 

Last Update :
I feel like a dumbass talking to myself, but maybe this will help someone if they come across the same issues.

I successfully managed to get Keyboard and LAN drivers working. What I did was using DISM++ I put the drivers directly into the install.wim file. That fixed my keyboard issues (I used usbxchi) found on the pinned post).

LAN drivers apparently I had the wrong ones, I needed the older driver. After I found the ones I needed online by looking at the .inf and \windows\inf\setupapi.dev.log and cross-referencing the ones I needed.

Then I tried getting RDC to work, it was god awfully painful. I can type commands into booted windows but I am basically blind. I only see starting Windows and every mistake I thought I did typing I was instantly redoing the whole command again. And yet I couldnt get RDC to work, but I did manage to make My router see the computer. (Prob a firewall issue, but it doesn't matter)

Finally the graphics drivers. This is where I will be stuck, until someone makes a modified Apollo lake driver for windows 7. Without this nobody is getting past the Starting Windows screen. I tried looking for them. I tried modifying .inf file myself to maybe somehow force install even if it BSOD's, but I couldn't get it to install. The biggest obstacle is the fact that Apollo lake drivers and the chipset were made with Windows 10 and above only in mind. Windows 7 was left into dust (obviously).

If there will ever be a fix for the graphics drivers, I will probably do another update. For now i am going to get a super old laptop that does not support Windows 10, because I need Windows 7 only laptop.

I spent 60 hours making everything work and it was fun.