Solved Drivers laptop Killer Wireless-AC 1550 & USB 3 - Windows 7 64Bit Helps

[erpster4]

but in 2021 I still not see the Drivers adapted for the Rivet Killer Wireless-AC 1550 and Bluetooth function in Windows 7.

Rivet Killer networking products are now owned by Intel
original vendor never really produced a Win7 driver for Killer Wireless-AC 1550 so I don't expect any drivers (whether modded or non-modded) to be made anytime soon that will make it work under Win7. guess the Wireless-AC 1550 device was meant only for Win10

 

[Cris85]

@Cris85,
Greets,
It's nice hearing from you. I am doing well & hope the same for you.
As for Drivers for your Wireless & Bluetooth, there is no progress. Though I have raised it on several driver related forums like Station drivers, Winraid, etc. forums, there are no useful responses so far.
Let's hope for the best!
Thanks. ...

Hey, nice to hear you Vineet Garg excuse me for th late reply but I saw just then. I still always with the wish abou it, becaus I saw that in Linux the people made to let it work and I was curious if in some way was possible to do it for Win 7 as well.... I wish reallly that in some way can come out some great news on it , keep in touch

Cris

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Rivet Killer networking products are now owned by Intel
original vendor never really produced a Win7 driver for Killer Wireless-AC 1550 so I don't expect any drivers (whether modded or non-modded) to be made anytime soon that will make it work under Win7. guess the Wireless-AC 1550 device was meant only for Win10

Yes it's only for Win10 but for my "luck"it's the first generation of WiFi board that it's exclusively for Win10, but example in Linux one User let it work and Rivet promote undirectly his driver for let works them product under Linux OS (incredible but true). So I was wish that maybe with the time and some other company/user find the way, because if I don't mistake Dell sold the laptops with those drivers also for Windows 7, but it's exclusively for Dell product; take my words with some "precaution" because i write this with some unclear memory on that.....

 

[Cris85]

I'm writhing from Linux/Ubuntu and I can confirm that for the Wireless it's using and listed out the following driver for Wifi & Bluetooth (so it doesn't use the some custom Rivet Killer driver but it's using the Intel one) :

Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260 [8086:2526] (rev 29)
	Subsystem: Rivet Networks Wireless-AC 9260 [1a56:1550]
	Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

 

[vagenrider]

I'm writhing from Linux/Ubuntu and I can confirm that for the Wireless it's using and listed out the following driver for Wifi & Bluetooth (so it doesn't use the some custom Rivet Killer driver but it's using the Intel one) :

Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260 [8086:2526] (rev 29)
    Subsystem: Rivet Networks Wireless-AC 9260 [1a56:1550]
    Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

Goodevening my neighbor chris! george from greece here!

after so many time i dont know how much i finish reading your journey to get working installation of windows 7 and i dissapointed so much with the end.honestly i know that feel because for months i was fighting to install win7 on my rog notebook 8750h/1050ti after first stage of installation i always got acpi error and finaly some good person from ntlite forum gave me a modded acpi.sys and the system boot.almost everything worked exept the intel 9560 wifi/bluetooth...for months i reading/trying/searching but nothing,i got the same results as you.

before a month i sold this notebook and i bought the titan 8sg 8750h/2080 i freaking love this beast..my previous looks like toy! the last days i start seaching about to install win7 but after what i read i think will got pretty much the same results like you,so i dont think it is a good idea to proceed.however i would like to hear your thoughts if you are still active here.

 

[Cris85]

Goodevening my neighbor chris! george from greece here!

after so many time i dont know how much i finish reading your journey to get working installation of windows 7 and i dissapointed so much with the end.honestly i know that feel because for months i was fighting to install win7 on my rog notebook 8750h/1050ti after first stage of installation i always got acpi error and finaly some good person from ntlite forum gave me a modded acpi.sys and the system boot.almost everything worked exept the intel 9560 wifi/bluetooth...for months i reading/trying/searching but nothing,i got the same results as you.

before a month i sold this notebook and i bought the titan 8sg 8750h/2080 i freaking love this beast..my previous looks like toy! the last days i start seaching about to install win7 but after what i read i think will got pretty much the same results like you,so i dont think it is a good idea to proceed.however i would like to hear your thoughts if you are still active here.

Hi George, thank you for reading my entire post here.

Well, you've got a really nice and performing notebook, well done my friend.
Luckily, I had set with Seven Forum, that every new post here it will sends me an email in my inbox and occasionally I saw that you wrote me here.

In my notebook I have now installed 4 operating systems, of which I use all 4 for different reasons, I have installed:
Windows 7
Windows 10
Windows 11
Ubuntu / Linux

What can I say, if you want to install Windows 7, I recommend it, even if the support it is closed from Microsoft, because it is generally a lighter operating system than the new Windows, and from my simple tests I noticed that Windows 7 has slightly better performance.
Then, I also recommend it, because sometimes (if you are a person who "fiddles with" a lot of software) it might be useful to use it for compatibility with old software or games.
To make it work you need to prepare your Windows 7 Custom ISO.
We are lucky because the CPU / Motherboard model you have (it's the same as mine) is the last of the series that supports Windows 7 unofficially, but with custom drivers (at least the USB ports).
So, for my part I found all the official drivers and also all the software compatible with Windows 7, especially the MSI Center software for managing the fans etc ....
The only thing that it won't work for you is the Wifi / Bluetooth card hardware, but everything else will work for you, from the Chipset, Tunderbolt port, to the RGB keyboard, the Ethernet connection, and above all to the USB ports (with custom drivers).
The thing that was most important to me, that someone made special drivers for the USB ports. So if you want to install it, I have found all the solutions and if you want I can help you (memory permitting, because it's been a while since then).
For bluetooth and Wifi, I don't really need because I use my Notebook as a Desktop replacement, but if I really want to play some video game or connect anything Bluetooth or connect with Wifi, to solve this I found the solution, by buying a USB pendrive that will do the WIfi and Bluetooth together. Anyway, I'm here always with the hope that one day someone will be able to customize the drivers of the laptop's Wifi / Bluethooth hardware card.

Anyhow, I never will be tired to say Thanks to @Vineet Garg for the help in the past, which was the key for me to be able to face many difficulties together...

 

[vagenrider]

Hi George, thank you for reading my entire post here.

Well, you've got a really nice and performing notebook, well done my friend.
Luckily, I had set with Seven Forum, that every new post here it will sends me an email in my inbox and occasionally I saw that you wrote me here.

In my notebook I have now installed 4 operating systems, of which I use all 4 for different reasons, I have installed:
Windows 7
Windows 10
Windows 11
Ubuntu / Linux

What can I say, if you want to install Windows 7, I recommend it, even if the support it is closed from Microsoft, because it is generally a lighter operating system than the new Windows, and from my simple tests I noticed that Windows 7 has slightly better performance.
Then, I also recommend it, because sometimes (if you are a person who "fiddles with" a lot of software) it might be useful to use it for compatibility with old software or games.
To make it work you need to prepare your Windows 7 Custom ISO.
We are lucky because the CPU / Motherboard model you have (it's the same as mine) is the last of the series that supports Windows 7 unofficially, but with custom drivers (at least the USB ports).
So, for my part I found all the official drivers and also all the software compatible with Windows 7, especially the MSI Center software for managing the fans etc ....
The only thing that it won't work for you is the Wifi / Bluetooth card hardware, but everything else will work for you, from the Chipset, Tunderbolt port, to the RGB keyboard, the Ethernet connection, and above all to the USB ports (with custom drivers).
The thing that was most important to me, that someone made special drivers for the USB ports. So if you want to install it, I have found all the solutions and if you want I can help you (memory permitting, because it's been a while since then).
For bluetooth and Wifi, I don't really need because I use my Notebook as a Desktop replacement, but if I really want to play some video game or connect anything Bluetooth or connect with Wifi, to solve this I found the solution, by buying a USB pendrive that will do the WIfi and Bluetooth together. Anyway, I'm here always with the hope that one day someone will be able to customize the drivers of the laptop's Wifi / Bluethooth hardware card.

Anyhow, I never will be tired to say Thanks to @Vineet Garg for the help in the past, which was the key for me to be able to face many difficulties together...

man im so happy that you saw my reply because i see on your profile that the last time you got online it was before a long time a go...
i also have usb wifi...i got it after everything failed to make the ac9560 work...on the previous i saw someone mention about station drivers forum,so i check and i find a proset package that claims have win7 driver for our card.i extract/inject with ntlite btw i bought it before 1 year because its amazing tool,but there is no driver for our adapter.i will note give up the fight to make it wok im not loosing my hope really want to avoid this stupid wifi usb.

i really want to ask you to share with me any win7 driver you have for the titan.believe me,yesterday night when i finish reading the thread,i felt like reading a book..with bad ending :"(

 

[Cris85]

man im so happy that you saw my reply because i see on your profile that the last time you got online it was before a long time a go...
i also have usb wifi...i got it after everything failed to make the ac9560 work...on the previous i saw someone mention about station drivers forum,so i check and i find a proset package that claims have win7 driver for our card.i extract/inject with ntlite btw i bought it before 1 year because its amazing tool,but there is no driver for our adapter.i will note give up the fight to make it wok im not loosing my hope really want to avoid this stupid wifi usb.

i really want to ask you to share with me any win7 driver you have for the titan.believe me,yesterday night when i finish reading the thread,i felt like reading a book..with bad ending :"(

I can imagine your disappointment, but also try to think that you are very lucky that Windows 7 runs on such a new and powerful machine. If you take current notebooks, I think you can't even dream of installing Windows 7, because there are no motherboard chipset drivers (and not to mention all the other components).

Lately what I have noticed, for new operating systems, is that Intel since buying Rivet Networks it starts to modifying the Rivet drivers based on their Intel classic hardware series drivers, it almost seems that they wants more and more to unify drivers between Rivet and Intel Wifi (so my wish it's that someone can look into the newer drivers for new OS, and to understand how let to adapt the Wifi/Bluetooth hardware card for Windows 7).

For all the drivers I have collected over time, later I will search for them and attach them here. Now I will not be in front of the PC, because I have to go around but read the post via the smartphone ....

One thing I did not understand well, so were you able to install Windows 7 in your notebook?

If YES, just are you missing some drivers (except Wifi / Bluetooth card)?

And where did you install it, in an Nvme or SATA SSD?

Do you need to know about the BIOS configurations I have done?

 

[vagenrider]

I can imagine your disappointment, but also try to think that you are very lucky that Windows 7 runs on such a new and powerful machine. If you take current notebooks, I think you can't even dream of installing Windows 7, because there are no motherboard chipset drivers (and not to mention all the other components).

Lately what I have noticed, for new operating systems, is that Intel since buying Rivet Networks it starts to modifying the Rivet drivers based on their Intel classic hardware series drivers, it almost seems that they wants more and more to unify drivers between Rivet and Intel Wifi (so my wish it's that someone can look into the newer drivers for new OS, and to understand how let to adapt the Wifi/Bluetooth hardware card for Windows 7).

For all the drivers I have collected over time, later I will search for them and attach them here. Now I will not be in front of the PC, because I have to go around but read the post via the smartphone ....

One thing I did not understand well, so were you able to install Windows 7 in your notebook?

If YES, just are you missing some drivers (except Wifi / Bluetooth card)?

And where did you install it, in an Nvme or SATA SSD?

Do you need to know about the BIOS configurations I have done?

yes mate,will install the win7 on the main m2 samsung 970 evo plus.about drivers,give me all exept wifi/bt i also want to know about your bios config..as you can see im not so good about to writing/typing/and talking about many things because english limits to express my self well but im reading all you saying with the 100% of my focus.
i understand that you busy now,and im really thankfull for your responce honestly!

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just finish install win7 and another problem im facing of is cant find drivers for the 2080.i need to find 300+ version because rdr2 wont work

 

[Cris85]

yes mate,will install the win7 on the main m2 samsung 970 evo plus.about drivers,give me all exept wifi/bt i also want to know about your bios config..as you can see im not so good about to writing/typing/and talking about many things because english limits to express my self well but im reading all you saying with the 100% of my focus.
i understand that you busy now,and im really thankfull for your responce honestly!

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just finish install win7 and another problem im facing of is cant find drivers for the 2080.i need to find 300+ version because rdr2 wont work

Ok.....

I'm back, my MSI Titan has 2 in SLI 1070 and for your model with 2080 mobile, Nvidia with no reason seems cut off the support for Windows 7 but keep the support for the Desktop version of your card ....
So, if it's interesting , I found some custom way for the notebook Clevo, and try to understand if you rmodel it's with 2080Max-Q or the normal 2080 for Notebook, here it's the solution of it:

Notebook RTX 2080 Clevo driver mod for Windows 7/8.1 - nVidia - Tech|Inferno Forums

Let me know....

 

[vagenrider]

Ok.....

I'm back, my MSI Titan has 2 in SLI 1070 and for your model with 2080 mobile, Nvidia with no reason seems cut off the support for Windows 7 but keep the support for the Desktop version of your card ....
So, if it's interesting , I found some custom way for the notebook Clevo, and try to understand if you rmodel it's with 2080Max-Q or the normal 2080 for Notebook, here it's the solution of it:

Notebook RTX 2080 Clevo driver mod for Windows 7/8.1 - nVidia - Tech|Inferno Forums

Let me know....

yeah i see that about nvidia stop the win7 support and i got super angry..alredy found that thread too and finaly i manage to install succsessful..some performance results i got slitly lower score on unigine valley win10 5240 win7 5000 but its ok.
cpu seems perform better cinebench r15 10% higher

just tried install dragon center result bsod when tried to run..if you have any driver for any device will be perfect

 

[Cris85]

Ok, I prepared all the drivers and softwares....

Should be everything, if missing something just let me know, because at that time I have got other bunch of drivers and softwares to test and I have many things in my backup folder.

this it's the link: WeTransfer - Send Large Files & Share Photos Online - Up to 2GB Free

Inside of all the folders, you will find one folder for the Controllers / Drivers of AHCI-RAID-NVMe , if you have already installed it, you no need to install the drivers into this folder (I already wrote it)

I have included also the wufuc software for take out the Windows 7 pop-up messagge to upgrade the system and I have included two Windows 7 upgrades , important to work well with NVMe...

So, again, I included all of them except the Nvidia card and the Wifi/Bluetooth drivers....let me know if anything....

Soon I will post you the Bios settings for Windows 7, some BSod could be also because of the BIOS settings...

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Bios Settings to let work also Windows 7 under UEFI BIOS:

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Remember to let Windows 7 to work well With BIOS EFi mode you must to install Windows 7 in the NVMe/SSD formatted as GPT and NOT MBR as usual.

This give you the advance to don't let you enter everytime into the BIOS to switch Option between Legacy/CSM/EFI settings just in case if you want run different OS (like Windows 11 and Windows 7 installed in dual boot).

PS: The performace that you mentioned here "...win10 5240 win7 5000 but its ok...." for 240 differences, sometimes could be the differences as the individual Benchmark test....or even in Windows 10 if you try for more than 2/3/4/5 times , you will not get the same result; but as especially if you have the Fans that doesn't keep the temperature down you will lose some point. So, first be sure that the notebook it's in the same cooling condition and than repeat the tests....

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One thing that i forgot maybe (i have noticed now), it's the SteelSeries Keyboard Driver/Software . So if you cannot find let me know, I believe your model has the same Keyboard like mine ...right?!

 

[vagenrider]

Ok, I prepared all the drivers and softwares....

Should be everything, if missing something just let me know, because at that time I have got other bunch of drivers and softwares to test and I have many things in my backup folder.

this it's the link: WeTransfer - Send Large Files & Share Photos Online - Up to 2GB Free

Inside of all the folders, you will find one folder for the Controllers / Drivers of AHCI-RAID-NVMe , if you have already installed it, you no need to install the drivers into this folder (I already wrote it)

I have included also the wufuc software for take out the Windows 7 pop-up messagge to upgrade the system and I have included two Windows 7 upgrades , important to work well with NVMe...

So, again, I included all of them except the Nvidia card and the Wifi/Bluetooth drivers....let me know if anything....

Soon I will post you the Bios settings for Windows 7, some BSod could be also because of the BIOS settings...

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Bios Settings to let work also Windows 7 under UEFI BIOS:

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Remember to let Windows 7 to work well With BIOS EFi mode you must to install Windows 7 in the NVMe/SSD formatted as GPT and NOT MBR as usual.

This give you the advance to don't let you enter everytime into the BIOS to switch Option between Legacy/CSM/EFI settings just in case if you want run different OS (like Windows 11 and Windows 7 installed in dual boot).

PS: The performace that you mentioned here "...win10 5240 win7 5000 but its ok...." for 240 differences, sometimes could be the differences as the individual Benchmark test....or even in Windows 10 if you try for more than 2/3/4/5 times , you will not get the same result; but as especially if you have the Fans that doesn't keep the temperature down you will lose some point. So, first be sure that the notebook it's in the same cooling condition and than repeat the tests....

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One thing that i forgot maybe (i have noticed now), it's the SteelSeries Keyboard Driver/Software . So if you cannot find let me know, I believe your model has the same Keyboard like mine ...right?!

million thanks mate,im downloading..about the bench yeah agree i just mention.the whole feel of the titat right now is superb

yeah steelseries,do you have software?

 

[Cris85]

million thanks mate,im downloading..about the bench yeah agree i just mention.the whole feel of the titat right now is superb

yeah steelseries,do you have software?

For Steelseries I saw that should be the same official software/driver on MSI site drivers for your laptop and Windows 10....try to install the same driver that it needs to be installed for Windows 10, as I remember it's compatible with Windows 7...

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vagenrider, how is going the Win 7 installation in your laptop? Everything it's fine?

 

[vagenrider]

For Steelseries I saw that should be the same official software/driver on MSI site drivers for your laptop and Windows 10....try to install the same driver that it needs to be installed for Windows 10, as I remember it's compatible with Windows 7...

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@vagenrider, how is going the Win 7 installation in your laptop? Everything it's fine?

mate im very sorry for the late reply..my carrier decide to cut off the internet due to maintence...everything works fine exept of course wifi/bt about wifi im using again the usb wifi.about the folder you gave me:dragon center: all the features works finesound card: the console missing so i download the one with the msi panelbattery calibration: works finesteelseries:the one from the msi works perfectly
touchpad: fine
nvidia driver: works almost fine,have only some very small issues.the games runs with about 10-20%+ performance and a lot smoother.
the whole system runs incredibly fast..seems like fits much better on the win7

 

[Cris85]

mate im very sorry for the late reply..my carrier decide to cut off the internet due to maintence...everything works fine exept of course wifi/bt about wifi im using again the usb wifi.about the folder you gave me:dragon center: all the features works finesound card: the console missing so i download the one with the msi panelbattery calibration: works finesteelseries:the one from the msi works perfectly
touchpad: fine
nvidia driver: works almost fine,have only some very small issues.the games runs with about 10-20%+ performance and a lot smoother.
the whole system runs incredibly fast..seems like fits much better on the win7

Happy to hear that, I just was out of curiosity.
So. it's works everything except the Wifi/Bluetooth..... for the touch pad you should install Synaptics Drivers.

If anything else let me know, and yes, the laptop with Windows 7 it's super fast.

 

[vagenrider]

Happy to hear that, I just was out of curiosity.
So. it's works everything except the Wifi/Bluetooth..... for the touch pad you should install Synaptics Drivers.

If anything else let me know, and yes, the laptop with Windows 7 it's super fast.

mate,did you search if there is any other wifi adapter with win7 support that works to our titans?

 

[Cris85]

mate,did you search if there is any other wifi adapter with win7 support that works to our titans?

I opened another thread to ask this in the forum...should be some other adapter compatible with Windows 7.

So let's talk about it in another thread (in this section), because if I will find it, fo sure I will replace it.....

 

[Cris85]

For the future people that will see these posts my replay below, it's related to this post here: Laptop - replace the WiFi/Bluetooth with latest model compatible Win 7

Today I saw the posts from @vagenrider with nice pictures before comeback at home and finally I can reply now, but unfortunately @vagenrider delete all the posts related of it.

I feel sorry for that, because also i helped this person and he made just this without reason.

For anyone that needs to know, the intel 8265NGW it works with the Model MSI gt75 and all the related model of these MSI specs with Windows 7.
So, unfortunately the Killer wifi 1550 need to be replaced to let the laptop with Windows 7 to work with Wifi/ Bluetooth, because no drivers Windows 7 for the Killer Wifi 1550.

Thanks to all, and this forum to helped me

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Thanks to upload back all the posts....