home-built computer can run upto 12th gen CPU per people. manufactured PC not so lucky. my HP i5-9500 (HP 800 G4/G5) can run Windows 7 but Dell i5-9500 (Dell 7070) wouldn't. no matter what I have tried. install ok but failed at re-boot.
Mine is fully functional minus any USB or Ethernet on an MSI B760 board. Anyone have any solutions for me? My keyboard is PS/2 so that works fine, but NONE of my USB ports work (2 or 3, doesn't matter) and my ethernet doesn't work. Not sure where to get anything like this.
I was wondering, what is the most modern Intel motherboard that Windows 7 (64-bit,SP1) can run now, in 2025? I thought the cutoff point was Z590 for 11th Gen Intel CPUs, since 12th Gen Intel CPUs introduced P/E cores, which Windows 7 wouldn't understand? Is this true? Or can it still use them in some limited fashion? Does Windows 7 run on a Z690 motherboard with a 12th Gen Intel CPU with P/E cores? Well, I searched the forum, and found a few mentions about running Windows 7 on Z690 and Z790 motherboards. But details on driver compatibility seem sketchy. I think I will stick with Z590 for now.
Need help with Win7 x64 USB/NVMe drivers for B760 + i7-14700F Hello everyone! I successfully migrated my existing Windows 7 x64 installation (on a SATA SSD) to a new platform: MB: ASUS PRIME B760-PLUS D4 CPU: Intel Core i7-14700F The system boots fine up to the desktop, but I have no working USB ports, so the mouse and keyboard are dead. Could someone please share live download links for working modified USB 3.0/3.1 and NVMe drivers compatible with Intel 700-series chipsets / Raptor Lake? I need to integrate them into my offline system. Thank you in advance!
Simplix integrated USB 3 and NVMe drivers. Their USB 3 drivers are working for me (I haven't tried their NVMe drivers).
Thanks, I know that. But I can't find these drivers anywhere to download. That's why I wrote this post. By the way, what chipset do you have? I was talking about the B760. Do you still have a working download link?
You shouldn't be linking that. It's a homebrew image and not allowed here. @StratoString simplix uses this usb driver stack and the above mentioned NVMe KBs(either them for boot.wim/winre.wim or the big convenience rollup for install.wim, as it contains them and replaces over 100 older updates).
I think it's a Q270 with 6th gen processor (the last gen that supported legacy boot, they say). I'm now remembering back to a year ago, when I set this up, and I've realized that I had to download a USB driver stack linked in this forum, and it worked well. I was having difficulty with the USB 3 drivers working after Simplix, so using the separate link in this forum worked better.
@Muffin Top H310M-HDV + i3-8100 boots windows 7 with enabled CSM without issues. Even 32-bit. Although the H310 chipset is likely a rebadge of some older chipset.
Hey guys can anyone help me install uefi win 7 ultimate on my acer spire e15 series, (574G), the one with the 920M nvidia gpu, its getting hard, and i think its drivers are causing the freeze, can anyone help me where tk find them, i need specifically the chipset, usb 3.0, no need for nvme since i use a classic hdd on ahci
I have since found a modded Intel GPU driver that allows me to run Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 using a B365 motherboard (which is supported on Windows 7) and a i3-9100 using the UHD 630 integrated graphics. I ran both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 in Legacy / CSM mode only, no UEFI. You may know that Intel only "officially" supports the integrated GPU in the 6th generation CPUs (Skylake) when using Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. But I found that that driver used the same trick as Nvidia did, namely to block the installation of the driver on 7th - 9th generation integrated GPUs. The driver itself is compatible with 7th to 9th generation (Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake) integrated GPUs. Removing the block (which is what the mod did) and modifying the suitable inf file in the driver allowed it to be installed on these CPUs when running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. I have since done a second modification of the inf file which allows me to install the driver on Windows 8.1 running an old Lenovo laptop (that my younger brother gave me after getting a newer laptop from his company to use for work) using the i5-8550U CPU with UHD 620 integrated graphics.