drivers Windows 7 Incompatible Drivers Workaround

[Anonymous000]

Yes, Hi! I currently have Windows 7 Ultimate installed on an SSD, but after swapping it out from and older PC (Alienware X51-R2) to my new PC (Alienware Aurora R6), I am having horrible driver issues, now I know that Windows 7 isn’t compadible with some of my hardware such as my CPU, An i7-7700, which is Kaby Lake and Windows 7 doesn’t support that, HOWEVER, installing an Unoffical 3rd Party Patch actually fixes that issue, and I have gotten most of my PC to work.

 

PC Specs are

CPU: Intel i7-7700

GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1080

RAM: 16GB DDR4 @ 2400MHz

PSU: Some stock PSU that is a 460 Watts

BIOS: 1.0.12 for the Aurora R6

 

My OLD PC’s specs that I happened to swap the drive from are

CPU: Intel i7-4770

GPU: NVIDIA GTX 745

RAM: 8GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz

PSU: Some stock powerbrick

BIOS: A12

 

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What is currently broken and doesn’t work is the: CPU’s Internal GPU, or Intel HD Graphics Driver, my Universial Serial Bus (USB) Driver, which means I legitimately can’t use ANY USB, I’ve been using TeamViewer on my phone as a mouse and keyboard, a “PCI Device” as Device Manager claims, and another Unknown Device 

 

Screenshots Here:

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I don’t care if the drivers are unofficial or horribly unstable or could break my windows, if I can make ANY progress even if it’s very little, that’s still progress in my book.

[unkn0wn1]

try installing the windows 10 drivers if that doesn't work then search for the hardware id in device manager

[another random person]

I mean well, as sketchy as it may sound I would recommend that you get Windows 10 from a Grey market for cheap. It sure is less sketchy than odd third party drivers. Unless if you really want to keep windows 7 because 10 is bad then that's understandable. 

[Anonymous000]

I managed to figure it out after a long time messing about. Turns out my motherboard has a Z270 Chipset, So I went out of my way to see if I can find out how to setup Windows 7 with a Z270 bored. Not the best with hardware and I will admit that.

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What I had to do was go to Gigabyte.us or http://www.gigabyte.us/Support/Utility, Then download the Windows USB Installation Tool with Window's 7 already installed on to the thumb drive, Reinstall windows, then I was good to go. (I also had to forcefully install my Internal Video Card drivers too)