Coffeee Lake UHD630 and Windows 7

[carsco]

I've had no luck installing UHD 630 under Windows 7.

I've used the workaround used for SkyLake and KabyLake, using 15.45 drivers with modified INF
but doesnt's works.

Is there a way to make it work?

 

[mdd1963]

WIndows 7 does not support Skylake, Kabylake, or Coffeelake chipsets/processors....; a workaround that worked for one is certainly not necessarily going to work for yet another newer chipset and CPU design.

 

[richiestang_78]

At this point it's a crap shoot. Coffee Lake is not supported by Windows 7, and since you've already tried older drivers it may just simply not work. Only thing I can think of is maybe buying a cheap GPU and using that.

 

[R0GG]

I had successfullly installed windows 7 64 ult on i7-6700k+ Asrock fatality z170 m-ac and i7-7700k+Asus Strix z270E both on M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0x4 from USB custom install Iso: but it took me few weeks to get successful installation and drivers to work, a lot of going back and forth between drivers, I don't even recall what I exactly did to make everything work lol (but I don't need to because saved base back up image of both systems after everything was working correctly)
I am inclined to think it's doable too with coffee like.
Were you able to finish your installation and having trouble with the drivers of the integrated graphics?

 

[carsco]

I had successfullly installed windows 7 64 ult on i7-6700k+ Asrock fatality z170 m-ac and i7-7700k

I'm talking about COFFEE LAKE (8th gen).
Thanks.

 

[R0GG]

I had successfullly installed windows 7 64 ult on i7-6700k+ Asrock fatality z170 m-ac and i7-7700k

I'm talking about COFFEE LAKE (8th gen).
Thanks.

Same thing was said about Kabylake but people got around installing win 7 on it's platform, so I am thinking it's doable
Coffee Lake and windows 7 >> http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3557369/coffee-lake-windows.html

 

[mdd1963]

So a full 7 months after CoffeeLake release, how long do would anyone wish to wait on someone's hack of the OS and/or drivers to hope that Win7 works, until some security update breaks it, etc....?

I liked Win7 too, and, yes, Win10 did suck the first several months it was out in Beta, but, it can be tweaked to be VERY similar to Win7, but with a prominent search/launch bar.

While MS is still allegedly letting people activate Win10 using Win7 product keys, I'd recommend going that route (if possible) while they are still being generous, as that should have ended last summer.

 

[carsco]

Coffee Lake GPU isn't ugual Sky/Kaby Lake GPU.
That system (I've tried) doesn't works.
Thanks.

 

[carsco]

I've a Z370M full functionally under Windows 7 without problems (using NVME USB3 etc), but GPU doesn't works.
I've had buy a dGPU but without H264/265 hardware compressor (GT1030) instead the UHD630's compressor it's superb and I want activate it.

Same PC, on Windows 10, allow me to use this poweful encoder.
Yes, it's stupid from MS block the GPU with Windows 7, then allow to use