Unable to install Windows 7 on BRAND NEW Asus X540s laptop-BSOD Error

[7freedom]

Hello, I have recently bought my daughter her first laptop as a gift and have been racking my brains as to why Windows 7 won't install. We get an error message of which I attach a screenshot (well a photo of the screen).
I am well versed with PC's, after all I am able to get the USB Flash drive recognized and started. It isn't until just after "Starting Windows" does the screen go blue with said verbage.

Now to put things into context my daughter wanted a computer like mine, which is Asus X75VC, of which I have no issues running Windows 7.
Her new Asus X540s struggles with Win10, regardless, we don't want Win 10, but will keep it as the main C partition for now. Am also waiting on Linux Mint 18, but today I need Windows 7 so please help!

Have spent the past few days scouring these forums, but have yet to find a solution to this "modern" problem. Computers these days seem to be going backwards, with less customizeability freely available at our disposal.

[P.s. How do I attach a screenshot with the error message? ]

 

[DS33]

I bought my ASUS X540SA-XX122T in Switzerland. It has exactly the same problems installing Windows 7 on it. Thank you very much, guys, for sharing your experiences! I searched for and tried a lot of drivers - some made the machine showing blue screen... forcing me to bring back my machine to a former, more stable state. Now there are still 3 devices displayed in Windows Device Manager as Unknown device. These are their Hardware-IDs:

ACPI\808622C1
ACPI\INTL9C60
ACPI\MSFT0101

Did you find the drivers for all of your devices? Or are there still some Unknown devices left in your Device Manager?

I got these as unknown devices except the first one

 

[JJbear]

This Hardware ID "ACPI\808622C1" refers to the "Intel(R) Serial IO I2C ES Controller". If you have this installed - where did you find the right driver?

 

[DS33]

This Hardware ID "ACPI\808622C1" refers to the "Intel(R) Serial IO I2C ES Controller". If you have this installed - where did you find the right driver?

I used Driver Boost to find most of the drivers

 

[7freedom]

Driver from ASUS webpage (Support/Drivers) if I remember correctly

https://www.asus.com/support/Download/3/841/0/3/9q1yRddnHmWJeTep/45/
From this page? oh man, I have installed all of them and none makes the wifi works

by the way, did you manage to get everything working fine on Windows 7?

Try both WLAN_QualcommAtheros_Win10_64 and WLAN_Realtek_Win10_60…

One of those worked for us

Thanks man! 😀 I don't know why those worked and not the drivers that came with the pc

However, I can't adjust the brightness nor connect my headphones 🙁

Awesome!

Try Brightness in the System Settings (Power Management, Control Panel)

Also, consider Bluetooth Headphones.

 

[jfradique]

Thanks, I will post photos of BIOS settings, run memtest and check out hiren's boot cd once DBAN is done. Only 7 hours left to go 😉

Hello... trying to give my own experience! I have this same model and, as you, I went for the linuxmint MATE edition on it... struggling with many errors, I found out that the issue is UEFI partitions, this is the main problem we are facing today (someone somewhere doesn't want us, the consumers, to start messing around with our own stuff, the things we buy with our own money - anyway, moving along :-( )

What I did after struggling with these partitions was:
1) to get myself my old copy of Hiren's Boot CD;
2) run gparted from it and totally erase the partitions on disk;
3) create my own partitions, the way I wanted;
4) put the pendrive with linuxmint on it's place
5) start/boot from pendrive
6) install linuxmint

So, in conclusion, if you still want dual boot win10 with another system, I'm afraid I can't help you; if, like me, you're tired of struggling with those partitions and want to get rid of that error screen and start using your laptop right the way, I believe this is the way to go.

And these are my 2 cents, hope it can help, someway
Cheers and good luck

 

[Deartifex]

Oh my god it took me for ever but I found out how to do, my model are the x540s (x540sa)

first ive updated the bios
then i went in the bios and chaged a few things
1- disable boot security
2-enable the csm support
3- in i/o security disable the sd card (makes blue screen for unknown reason)
4- Ive used a disk utility (gparted in hiren boot disk) to delete the partitions and the GPT to create a msdos ntfs partition
Finally i was able to use the win7 dvd and install it
Ive burnt a cd with the usb3 driver and used the realtek wired network driver from my z170 mobo
after that there's ninite.com for common applications. and driver pack solution helped me a bit, but my mouse pad are still not working
Besides the mouse I cannot also dimm the light of the lcd despite the vga driver are installed and rebooted

So I hope thoses steps would help you a bit further

But how did you updated bios? I instal windows 7 easy, but usb ports, wifi, touchpad still won't work... In bios, everything is unlocked...fu**ing windows 10..

 

[ClickaNerd]

Something somewhat amazing has happened, Windows 7 is installed!! However, now there is no USB or touchpad functionality. Drivers? I managed to get the WIFI working, but no mouse or touchpad.
Anyway, here is how I managed to install Windows 7 after all…
There was a setting in BIOS called I/O Security and in there was Card Reader Interface. I switched from Unlock to Lock and to my amazement, no BSOD!!

Go to BIOS and LOCK the card reader. When ASUS blasts out their load, they use the card reader in the WIN10 install process. If you try and install Win7, it looks at the firmware in the card reader and BSOD.

 

[ProfessorX1989]

Hi guys

I have had the exact same issue with my x540s opting for win8 (instead of Win10) allowed me to get past the BSOD screen and to the command line where i could format and partition the disk.

Windows 8 pro is now installed and running..also had numerous driver issues which i have cleared with Driver Booster 4.1 and another driver program..the issue now is that my touchpad does not work. It does not show in device manager and is enabled in the BIOS. I have tried all ASUS smart gesture software from the website and none of them install. Also tried synaptics versions and same problem.. Please help!!I can however use a USB mouse

 

[ProfessorX1989]

Is your touchpad working now?if so, pleeeeeeeez help..I have been struggling with this laptop for almost 2 weeks now

 

[rgd1101]

Sorry FlyByNight7 have to delete your post, can't have questionable download link

 

[FlyByNight7]

Sorry FlyByNight7 have to delete your post, can't have questionable download link

How can i post here the exact files requested by the user?

 

[rgd1101]

Sorry FlyByNight7 have to delete your post, can't have questionable download link

How can i post here the exact files requested by the user?

Not unless it from official website. or you can PM to the person

 

[FlyByNight7]

Sorry FlyByNight7 have to delete your post, can't have questionable download link

How can i post here the exact files requested by the user?

Not unless it from official website. or you can PM to the person

May be you don't know about it; this is he exact problem, the official website has'nt the drivers for Windows 7. I've solved all the drivers issues of this machine, excerpt for the mousepad, ...yet. Would you like to check the content of the link, please? I've no intention of harm nobody, i'm not that kind of sick

 

[Luke_83]

If it is possible, leave windows 7 and install windows 10
It resolves all problems

 

[MarcoLipe]

Something somewhat amazing has happened, Windows 7 is installed!! However, now there is no USB or touchpad functionality. Drivers? I managed to get the WIFI working, but no mouse or touchpad.
Anyway, here is how I managed to install Windows 7 after all…
There was a setting in BIOS called I/O Security and in there was Card Reader Interface. I switched from Unlock to Lock and to my amazement, no BSOD!!

Thank you so mutch after trying everything i also changed the card reader from unlmock to lock and it is working 😉 thank you so mutch .

 

[Jet_Chang]

I bought my ASUS X540SA-XX122T in Switzerland. It has exactly the same problems installing Windows 7 on it. Thank you very much, guys, for sharing your experiences! I searched for and tried a lot of drivers - some made the machine showing blue screen... forcing me to bring back my machine to a former, more stable state. Now there are still 3 devices displayed in Windows Device Manager as Unknown device. These are their Hardware-IDs:

ACPI\808622C1
ACPI\INTL9C60
ACPI\MSFT0101

Did you find the drivers for all of your devices? Or are there still some Unknown devices left in your Device Manager?

ACPI\MSFT0101 is TPM 2.0. you can take this update to solve

http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Windows%20Server2008%20R2%20SP1/sp2/Fix459309/7600/free/475790_intl_x64_zip.exe

 

[Jet_Chang]

Sorry FlyByNight7 have to delete your post, can't have questionable download link

How can i post here the exact files requested by the user?

Not unless it from official website. or you can PM to the person

May be you don't know about it; this is he exact problem, the official website has'nt the drivers for Windows 7. I've solved all the drivers issues of this machine, excerpt for the mousepad, ...yet. Would you like to check the content of the link, please? I've no intention of harm nobody, i'm not that kind of sick

Can you tell me how to get the touchpad's driver on win 7

 

[Luis_Messier]

I found this in another forum. Try and tell us. "...Greetings forum!

I agree with weber and hang. These laptops are equipped for hardware along with drivers that support Windows 8 and up. It may be best to pick up a nice external mouse as they are the superior human interface device.
ALTHOUGH! You can give this a try. Download the ASUS smart gesture application from the support page and afterwards update your ATK driver. I hope this helps and good luck!

https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/X540SC/HelpDesk_Download..."

 

[ccardales]

Oh my god it took me for ever but I found out how to do, my model are the x540s (x540sa)

first ive updated the bios
then i went in the bios and chaged a few things
1- disable boot security
2-enable the csm support
3- in i/o security disable the sd card (makes blue screen for unknown reason)
4- Ive used a disk utility (gparted in hiren boot disk) to delete the partitions and the GPT to create a msdos ntfs partition
Finally i was able to use the win7 dvd and install it
Ive burnt a cd with the usb3 driver and used the realtek wired network driver from my z170 mobo
after that there's ninite.com for common applications. and driver pack solution helped me a bit, but my mouse pad are still not working
Besides the mouse I cannot also dimm the light of the lcd despite the vga driver are installed and rebooted

So I hope thoses steps would help you a bit further

THANK YOU! I think I love you bro!
I was having a very hard time after REinstall Win10 (cuz' the drivers), but I read this thread and YOU fixed my problem!
I disabled the CardReader in the bios, and VOILA! No more "suddenshutdownwithnoadvice"... :3
May The Nine be with you in all times...

 

[rizescueusebiu]

This Hardware ID "ACPI\808622C1" refers to the "Intel(R) Serial IO I2C ES Controller". If you have this installed - where did you find the right driver?

Sooooo, any of you reached the complete solution for Windows 7 for this laptop? Of course, includin mousePad. Thanks!!

 

[jp_yian]

Something somewhat amazing has happened, Windows 7 is installed!! However, now there is no USB or touchpad functionality. Drivers? I managed to get the WIFI working, but no mouse or touchpad.
Anyway, here is how I managed to install Windows 7 after all…
There was a setting in BIOS called I/O Security and in there was Card Reader Interface. I switched from Unlock to Lock and to my amazement, no BSOD!!

This solution worked for me.

 

[randyberge13]

hello did your problem solved? can you please help me to?