but I'm forced to use the usb's on the card and all the native usb's on the motherboard will not work? if that's the case I'd rather just stick to a z370 motherboard. surely it can't be that hard to port the usb z370 drivers to work on z390.
There's nothing to port if the code isn't there. The 200 series chipsets are the last intel platform that supports windows 7 and all the native ports can work with proper drivers. 300 series need windows 10. If you don't like the bloat inside it, go with LTSC 2019.
I know you have a lot more experience and knowledge than me but z370 does support windows 7. You can go to any motherboard manufacturer and download win 7 drivers. hence my comment of porting the z370 drivers to work with z390 motherboards. also we are just talking about usb drivers since everything else works.
I've gone through the support pages of multiple Z390/Z370/other 300 series boards from ASUS, ASRock, Gigabyte and MSI and I've not seen proper usb/sata drivers for the platform, explicitly confirmed to be working on windows 7. Some of the boards that have some 3rd party usb controller(usually an ASMedia chip) do have some drivers for that controller, but the ports of the 3rd party chip make up for a very small percentage of the I/O and the native Intel ports will still not work. It's not worth crippling the platform just so you can run windows 7 on it. There's only so much you can do. Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 is a good solution to the porblem - it lacks a lot of the bloat normal consumer editions have, it has full support for modern hardware and it does not hinder gaming performance like some tin foil hats like to believe and insist. On the flip side, there's AMD's Zen architecture, which so far supports windows 7 just fine. It has all the platform drivers, it just doesn't boot when using an APU.
Those are windows 10 drivers(clearly stated on the page) and I seriously doubt they will work on windows 7. The only windows 7 related download is the .net framework 4.5, which is, of course, just a runtime, not a driver. That's what I'm talking about, there are no proper drivers for windows 7 for this platform. There are only those older revision H310 boards, which is also a stinking load of BS, if you're buying an i7/i9 - crappy power delivery for a power hungry chip is a bad idea in the long run(maybe the short one too, if you're unlucky).
1) Update iso with my tool 2) create bootable pendrive with rufus 3) boot windows installer from regular USB port on your mainboard 4) After instalation USB ports will stop working. You will have to plug your keyboard and mouse to external PCI controler. Ps. You can't just port drivers from z370 to z390 because newer chipsets use completely different USB Controler! (ASMEDIA vs Intel)
My mistake, i read this: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...ryzen-threadripper.76335/page-27#post-1519985 Now i see a page back it was z390 you wanted to run it on
Hi everything is working fine except Bluetooth (Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth 4.0). I've tried to install different drivers from Qualcomm but none of them worked?