Running W7 on new AMD based motherboards?


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    Running W7 on new AMD based motherboards?


    I'm thinking of a new build and have come across a couple of boards that mention Win 7 and compatibility.
    I'm running Win 7 Pro x64 and is there a issue with new AMD based MB's and W7? I've been building PC's for almost 25 years and never ran into this before.
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    Apparently it's the lack of USB3 drivers that is the problem.
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    in the link I posted.
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    Unfortunately, that's all above my pay grade.
    I have two printers that don't have drivers for W10, two reasons I would stick w/ W7.
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    How do you know your printers won't work with Windows 10? You could try out Windows 10 and see for yourself whether the printers worked. There is a chance they will work unless the printers are really old.

    You do realize that Windows 7 came out over 13 years ago. Why should you expect current motherboards to support such an old operating system? To illustrate that, here are some motherboards I have. What you will find in common is that none of them supported Windows versions that came out more than 10 years before they did.

    BTW, I have been building Windows PCs for 26 years and never expected a new motherboard to be supported by an old operating system.

    Motherboard release date and oldest Windows version it had drivers for:
    #1 ASUS PRIME X370-PRO (2017) | Windows 7 (2009)
    #2 Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev. 1.0) (2011) | Windows XP (2001)
    #3 ASUS M4N82 Deluxe (2009) | Windows XP (2001)
    #4 ASUS A7V400-MX (2004) | Windows 98SE (1999)
    #5 ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe (2003) | Windows 95 (1995)

    BTW, #1 has Windows 10 on it. #2 & #3 are dual boot with Windows 7 and 10. I have found the older the motherboard the slower Windows 10 runs on it.
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    videobruce said:
    I have two printers that don't have drivers for W10, two reasons I would stick w/ W7.
    MisterEd said:
    How do you know your printers won't work with Windows 10? You could try out Windows 10 and see for yourself whether the printers worked. There is a chance they will work unless the printers are really old.
    well it depends on how videobruce's 2 old printers are connected, MisterEd. either networked thru an ethernet/wired LAN cable, networked wirelessly thru Wifi/WLAN or just connected locally to either usb ports or old/legacy style parallel LPTx ports

    if they're somehow not recognized in Win10 and only in Win7, he should read the following article:
    How to install an older printer to Windows 10 | Windows Central
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    videobruce said:
    I'm thinking of a new build and have come across a couple of boards that mention Win 7 and compatibility.
    I'm running Win 7 Pro x64 and is there a issue with new AMD based MB's and W7? I've been building PC's for almost 25 years and never ran into this before.


    It's a motherboard driver thing. You could mess around with hacked drivers, or you go with the highest AMD chipset that there are Windows 7 drivers for. In the case of Gigabyte motherboards (probably others, too) the AMD X470 made in 2018 is the highest chipset that has Windows 7 drivers. See here. So, the type of CPU support would be the Ryzen 5000 series which is Zen3 and released in 2020. Zen4 is the latest and again, forget using Windows 7 on it without hacked motherboard drivers.


    As to Intel, Windows 7 support drivers in Gigabyte motherboards goes up to the Intel socket 2066 which encompasses the X gen CPUs for extreme up to i9 10xxx series. So, Cascade Lake-X, Skylake Refresh- X, and Skylake-X. All are for a X299 chipset motherboard. That's if you want as fast as you can get with Windows 7 and 10 compatibility under Intel.

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    Yes, USB printer compatibility is really a moot point. Instead, just use networking to network the printer. If the printer has built-in Wi-Fi use that.

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    Never ever use WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) though. It can be hacked super easy.
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  9. Posts : 95
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    Well, it turned out that the existing drivers did manage to work. I had problems with the Canon driver package, but not the finicky Panasonic double driver package (it had a update). Even thou neither stated support for W10.
    BUT, after weeks of tiring to 'tame' that beyond belief, bloated, over engineered W10 joke, I decided to stick with something that works; W7. I could not find one thing I really liked about W10. The list of dis-likes is endless.
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