I want to install Windows 7 on my XMG A517 very badly but I always end up with the 0x000000a5 ACPI BoSD after the install or while booting from USB. I tried many different isos and adding NVMe, USB 3.0 support but I got none to work. What can I do? (The laptop has a very limited American Megatrends UEFI and I can pretty much only turn UEFI on or off)
To install Win 7 on Kaby lake you must add USB 3.x, SATA and NVMe drivers.
ACPI error is related to missing SATA driver.
As you have added USB 3 drivers to the installation disk, you can put the SATA and NVMe drivers on another flash drive and browse to them when asked to CD/dvd driver.
Read my tutorial Create a Windows 7 USB flash installation with new drives for new MB's - Windows 7 Help Forums
Ok that might be it. But when I got it booted up it actually showed me my NVMe and SSD drives but it got the bsod after the install is that normal?
Also which drivers should I pick since there is no official mainboard website for this laptop?
Try the attached SATA drivers
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