Older version on New Hardware

[aandril]

Anyone know how I can install Windows XP/Vista/7/8-8.1 (Mainly aiming for Win7+) on newer hardware, specifically B360N mobo with Coffee Lake?

[ethawesomee]

yes probably win7 and 8 and 8.1 but not sure about xp and vista

[aandril]

1 minute ago, ethawesomee said:

yes probably win7 and 8 and 8.1 but not sure about xp and vista

How?

 

My mobo/CPU only supports Windows 10 and above.

I don't really want to have to reflash my mobo with "bad" firmware.

 

...?

[emosun]

If you havent bought the hardware yet there are many alternatives that will be the same speed with support for windows 7.

[aandril]

Just now, emosun said:

If you havent bought the hardware yet there are many alternatives that will be the same speed with support for windows 7.

No I have everything already.

 

I'm tired of Windows 10 and it's sketchiness

[MedievalMatt]

2 minutes ago, aandril said:

No I have everything already.

 

I'm tired of Windows 10 and it's sketchiness

insert reference to Linux here.

[aandril]

3 minutes ago, MedievalMatt said:

insert reference to Linux here.

I don't want to use linux. Specifically I like windows, and don't want to install wine into linux to play games/run exe's

[emosun]

6 minutes ago, aandril said:

No I have everything already.

 

I'm tired of Windows 10 and it's sketchiness

with hardware that limited I don't think you can do it without a vm

[MedievalMatt]

1 minute ago, aandril said:

I don't want to use linux. Specifically I like windows, and don't want to install wine into linux to play games/run exe's

I feel the same way, which is why i daily drive linux and have a windows gaming rig i only use for steam and Epic games.  Its got chrome installed.  but not signed in to anything but my game crap.

 

I also used to dual boot, not a perfect solution.

I dont trust that Win 7/8/8.1 arent harvesting your info either.  And eventually youll get to a point where you wont be able to run something on those older windows versions and youll have to upgrade eventually.

 

I just want you to know that my suggestion is coming from how i addressed the same exact concern you have, and Its somthing i am happy with.

 

That said, linux gaming has come a LONG way recently.  Steam play, and in-home streaming.  Googles Project Stream.  I give it 2 years and we wont need to have a gaming rig at all to game if we dont want to.

[homeap5]

You may install Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 on Coffee Lake or Ryzen. This requires some research and knowledge, sometimes even some ancient hardware (PS2 keyboard / mouse will be very useful) but is absolutely possible. I prepared my old win7 for i7-8700k without problem and few weeks ago I switched win7 from old corequad to Ryzen 1600X B350 motherboard. Everything works fine. Win10 may give some advantages in power management (that's what I've heard) but overall performance is similar most cases.

 

Drivers are not present on motherboard websites, but most of drivers you need (or even all of them) are in fact 3rd party drivers - Intel for chipset, lan or USB, Realtek for sound, NVidia for GPU etc. And they still support win7 (but not official on mobo support sites).