Can't get past language on Win7 install with Asus Z690-E

[sshd guy]

I've seen people have been able to install win7 on this mobo but can't figure out the issue. I have a USB drive with the fully loaded Win7 64bit ultimate.

But when I'm on the first page I cannot get keyboard or mouse to work. Any suggestions?

 

[Megahertz07]

New MBs like the Z690 require drivers (USB 3.x, SATA, NVMe etc) that are not on the Win 7 Installation drive. You have to add those drivers to the Win 7 Installation drive. The problem is that the drivers may not exist as Intel gen 8 and up were made for Win 10 and Win 11.

 

[SIW2]

Try the 7updater ( without simplix update pack ) and usb3 and nvmne and lan should work on asus z690
Update your Win 7 installation media
use 7updater, then replace the install.wim in windows 10 installation media with the windows 7 install.wim you have updated.

Intel infs for getting rid of device manager yellow bangs

download Latest Intel Chipset Device INF files v10.1 Series WHQL comp 10-22-2023.rar

Intel Chipset Device "Drivers" (= INF files) - Other Drivers - Win-Raid Forum

 

[sshd guy]

I don't think I understand your suggestion. The iso I am using is fully loaded already (nvme, usb 3.1 etc). Should all be there, but KB&M do nothing when windows 7 installation loads up. Put on USB with rufus 4.2 using MBR and CSM. Not sure if that part is correct or if I have setting in the mobo correct.

When I used your 7updater I'm not sure it even did anythng. But again I think the needed drivers are already in the iso I have.

 

[Megahertz07]

I don't think I understand your suggestion. The iso I am using is fully loaded already (nvme, usb 3.1 etc). Should all be there, but KB&M do nothing when windows 7 installation loads up. Put on USB with rufus 4.2 using MBR and CSM. Not sure if that part is correct or if I have setting in the mobo correct.

If you don't have keyboard or mouse during installation is because Boot.wim has no USB 3.x drivers. You have to slipstream them into Boot.wim and install.wim. And then you use the 7updater.

 

[sshd guy]

Clearly the one I have which is suppose to have the proper drivers does not. I dont believe I have the skill to figure this out. Is anyone able to point me towards an iso that is already prepared?

 

[Megahertz07]

Clearly the one I have which is suppose to have the proper drivers does not. I don't believe I have the skill to figure this out. Is anyone able to point me towards an iso that is already prepared?

I'm going to be sincere with you.
If you don't believe to have the skill to add the drivers to the Win 7 installation files using 7updater, give up on installing Win 7 on a Asus Z690-E. This is only a little issue on all the whole process.

 

[sshd guy]

It's really more of a time thing, I'm was looking for at least a very detailed step by step process but then thought I'm sure it's not worth the time if there are isos ready to go. I did end up trying a couple different ones from internet archive last night and it finally worked!!
I still have to do some work of getting rid of the yellow marks, and I was already given good resources for that above in the thread.

 

[Megahertz07]

Good to know you did.
For the updates use Single file with all updates - Simplix

 

[sshd guy]

Had some issues getting everything going, realized it was best to start again, convert the Win7 drive to GPT before installing Win10. Everything went well. Then I tried to enable XMP on the mobo and it didn't like that. I guess there are issues with DDR5 and currently not worth enabling.

So I have everything back but my very nice blue dual boot screen that has additional options has been replaced with this crappy black screen version. Anyone have an idea to fix this without me starting over again?

 

[SIW2]

Childrens little blue squares menu is not necessary. If you want options to boot into winre or safemode highlight the win10 entry and press F8

 

[sshd guy]

I would still like my children blue squares back if anyone knows how. Plus it tries to check disk every time whether I select win7 or 10 which is annoying.

 

[SIW2]

Try

bcdedit -set {default} bootmenupolicy standard

 

[sshd guy]

Just type this in the command prompt? And does it matter if I do it in win7 or win10?

 

[SIW2]

I havent tried.

According to the article below it can be changed back to the kindergarten style menu

Enable the legacy Windows 7-like boot menu in Windows 10

 

[sshd guy]

So when I finally tried this, it was not worth it.

Now I have no boot selection, it auto goes to Win7 and freezes at startup. Can't get into safe mode of any kind as it freezes there too and bios sees the win10 drive but not in the boot menu. Really screwed me up for something I didn't actually need.

 

[SIW2]

Change it back to how it was before when it worked.

 

[sshd guy]

Can't even get into an OS to try. I made a UEFI win7 USB boot again and that brought me to the blue squares. Nothing helped to repair, I went into command prompt but I guess I can't as an admin because I tried to use the command to go back to legacy boot but it said access denied.

 

[SIW2]

Do it from booted win10/11 winpe.

If you made a backup of the previous bcd store, you can just use that to replace the current not working bcd.

Otherwise probably easiest to redo it. From booted winpe browse to the bcd store and rename or delete it.

Then run bcdboot commands to create new store with entries for your two os.

If you are stuck with the standard ms winpe and you dont know what you are doing, you can borrow one of my pe so you can see what you are doing.

cant remember what is in this one I made a while ago, but it will do

:ar: 23v7.iso

23v7.iso needs to be extracted to bootable usb stick for best reults.

 

[sshd guy]

Much appreciated! I have never worked with this before but I'll probably be able to fumble my way through it. I'm going to assume to create a GPT bootable drive with this. Will let you know how it goes when I work on it.