Is Win7 running on LGA1151 + Skylake Motherboards?

I am planning to buy a new computer with a LGA 1151 and Skylake processor.

Is Win7 running on such systems?

In other words: Are there Win 7 drivers available für the new Skylake chipsets?

Peter

Boozad said:

Yes it will be fine.

I wouldn't really say so. I just tried to install Windows 7 Ultimate on an MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC with a 6600K. The only thing it does is complain about missing CD/DVD drivers as soon as I start the setup. AFAIK, this cannot be easily solved, since Intel has removed EHCI support in Skylake, effectively preventing installation of Windows 7. (It means that no USB devices will work during setup, including the bootable USB drive and the keyboard and mouse.)

It may still be possible to install from a DVD, but it seems that you must have an ODD, a PS/2 port and a PS/2 keyboard and mouse. So although it may not be impossible, it is certainly not easy, and most people don't own the required hardware.

AddRAM said:

That`s crazy

Yes, it is.

A friend told me that he had installed Windows 7 on a Z170 computer from a USB drive without any problems though. So I don't know ... It certainly doesn't work for me, even if I enable Windows 7 Installation in the UEFI settings.

Boozad said:

I didn't know that, I stand corrected.

Neither did I until I tried; I would never even have considered the possibility that Windows 7 would not run on Skylake.

One thing that did work was booting from an SSD with a Windows installation from another computer. Though, it was impossible to get any USB support at all.

AddRAM said:

Good thing none of us have to worry about it

@ Alling, the only time we`ve seen that error message was from the result of a bad installer, usually burned too fast (dvd anyway) what program did you use to create your usb installer and where did you get the iso files from ?

Windows 7 doesn`t see usb 3.0 and if the Skylake chipset has truly dropped usb 2.0 then there`s the problem.

I mean, are we saying there are no usb 2.0 ports on a Z170 board ?

No, Z170 has full USB 2.0 support (of course; removing it would pretty much make every Z170 motherboard useless for any purpose).

I don't remember what program I used, but the drive has worked perfectly fine on Haswell-E, Haswell, Ivy Bridge, and Sandy Bridge computers.