[SOLVED] Which LGA 1151 CPU's supported by Windows 7

[mysunshines]

My Intel i5-6400 CPU died due to a dead cooling fan.

I purchased a i5-7500 CPU but discovered that Microsoft are now blockading compatibility to force us to go to Windows 10.

I will not go to Win 10 due to security flaws and software compatibility.

The i5-7500 CPU is crashy and gives constant error messages.

If i dump the new CPU on ebay , where is a list of CPU i can go back to that will be stable and do what its supposed to ?

Is everything in the Skylake range okay and excluding kaby Lake ?

MOBO is a GA-B150M-D3H with DDR4

Do i just go back to the same 6 th gen CPU again or go straight to Linux Mint ...lol

 

[Lutfij]

Anything above the Haswell(Haswell refresh) range is a no go with Windows 7. Even if you source the purest of ISO's with the way MS is cracking down on the old software, you will get a BSOD, regardless of how perfect your OS installation goes and what BIOS revision you're on. You're either better off sticking with older hardware or you need to migrate to Windows 10.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Eh, that's not exactly true Lutfij.

Windows 7 has the same, or worse, security flaws as Windows 10. This is a tired old argument. Windows 7 will run practically any CPU, that's not the problem. The problem is a lack of driver support for Windows 7 on newer platforms which is mainly a fault of the supporting cast, storage controller drivers, audio drivers, and so on.

As you can see at the following link, even the very latest 300 series motherboards and CPUs support Windows 7, but it doesn't mean everything else on a given motherboard or your peripheral hardware will have drivers available.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28182/Chipset-INF-Utility?product=126380


It has practically little to do with Microsoft itself. So long as your motherboard AND the chipset drivers support Windows 7, it really doesn't matter. Plenty of people running newer platforms on those old operating systems but it's rather senseless to do so.

Windows 10 has better memory management, better driver support, a much better feature set and is actively supported for security updates, while Windows 7, not so much anymore. Only the MOST critical updates are supported still for Windows 7 and mostly only in the enterprise sector.

If you want to run it, you can, but I would highly advise the move to Windows 10 AND you can still do it for free even today despite them officially saying the free upgrade long ago. If you prefer the Windows 7 desktop, start menu and shell, you can always use something like Classic shell to make it mostly look and act exactly like Windows 7. I do, and I fully customize it all to menus and behaviors I prefer, without the god awful giant modern app Windows 10 start menu and down your throat advertisements.

If privacy is a concern to you, then Spybot Anti-beacon along with a few other tweaks can eliminate 95% of of the phone home telemetry that Windows 10 collects. These are all well known ways to get the benefit of Windows 10 without the major annoyances it also has.

In fact, there are a few people around running 9 series CPUs on Win7, but again, I highly recommend against it.

 

[SkyNetRising]

My Intel i5-6400 CPU died due to a dead cooling fan.
The i5-7500 CPU is crashy and gives constant error messages.

If your previous cpu died (this is highly unusual btw), then it's possible, motherboard got damaged too - bent cpu pins, broken component on the motherboard. Motherboard may need to be replaced. i5-7500 should not be "crashy".

Also possible some software/driver issue is causing those crashes (not hardware itself). Did you try to reinstall windows?

As to about windows 7 support - problem with unsupported hardware message can be circumvented with wufuc,
https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc/releases/tag/v1.0.1.201

 

[jankerson]

Eh, that's not exactly true Lutfij.

Windows 7 has the same, or worse, security flaws as Windows 10. This is a tired old argument. Windows 7 will run practically any CPU, that's not the problem. The problem is a lack of driver support for Windows 7 on newer platforms which is mainly a fault of the supporting cast, storage controller drivers, audio drivers, and so on.

As you can see at the following link, even the very latest 300 series motherboards and CPUs support Windows 7, but it doesn't mean everything else on a given motherboard or your peripheral hardware will have drivers available.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28182/Chipset-INF-Utility?product=126380


It has practically little to do with Microsoft itself. So long as your motherboard AND the chipset drivers support Windows 7, it really doesn't matter. Plenty of people running newer platforms on those old operating systems but it's rather senseless to do so.

Windows 10 has better memory management, better driver support, a much better feature set and is actively supported for security updates, while Windows 7, not so much anymore. Only the MOST critical updates are supported still for Windows 7 and mostly only in the enterprise sector.

If you want to run it, you can, but I would highly advise the move to Windows 10 AND you can still do it for free even today despite them officially saying the free upgrade long ago. If you prefer the Windows 7 desktop, start menu and shell, you can always use something like Classic shell to make it mostly look and act exactly like Windows 7. I do, and I fully customize it all to menus and behaviors I prefer, without the god awful giant modern app Windows 10 start menu and down your throat advertisements.

If privacy is a concern to you, then Spybot Anti-beacon along with a few other tweaks can eliminate 95% of of the phone home telemetry that Windows 10 collects. These are all well known ways to get the benefit of Windows 10 without the major annoyances it also has.

In fact, there are a few people around running 9 series CPUs on Win7, but again, I highly recommend against it.

Yes, no real reason not to be running Windows 10 these days on the more modern systems.

 

[The Original Ralph]

mysunshines - i know how you feel, i resisted upgrading to Win 10 myself and finally did a few months back

it's not that bad, win 10 does seem to function smoother and better, the GUI was a pain to learn as windows seemed to have worked overtime in some cases to hide functions that were so easy to find in Win 7, but it doesn't take long to get the hang of the new GUI.

Only complaint i have, it updates on it's own, automatically almost daily sometimes. And one update screwed something up, i forget what or maybe it just re-organized the GUI - luckily i had cloned my OS drive a few days earlier so i just re-installed the clone copy and found a "Windows Update Disabler" utility (found it over on majorgeeks) - and it has the option to allow windows defender and windows security center updates to continue

Peel yourself away from Win 7 - if an old fart like me can change over, anyone can

 

[jankerson]

mysunshines - i know how you feel, i resisted upgrading to Win 10 myself and finally did a few months back

it's not that bad, win 10 does seem to function smoother and better, the GUI was a pain to learn as windows seemed to have worked overtime in some cases to hide functions that were so easy to find in Win 7, but it doesn't take long to get the hang of the new GUI.

Only complaint i have, it updates on it's own, automatically almost daily sometimes. And one update screwed something up, i forget what or maybe it just re-organized the GUI - luckily i had cloned my OS drive a few days earlier so i just re-installed the clone copy and found a "Windows Update Disabler" utility (found it over on majorgeeks) - and it has the option to allow windows defender and windows security center updates to continue

Peel yourself away from Win 7 - if an old fart like me can change over, anyone can

Yup I have ran them all over the years from Windows 1.0 all the way to Windows 10.

You get used to the changes, it's not a big deal.

 

[Darkbreeze]

And like I mentioned, if you just don't like the Windows 10 desktop, shell, taskbar and start menu, you can customize it to look and act like any prior version of Windows including 7, 8.1, XP, or even classic older windows versions using Classic shell. Some will say it doesn't work with current versions of Windows 10 AND it is true that it is no longer being developed, but it works perfectly fine on my systems running the latest versions of Windows 10 even after a clean install.

I think the elephant in the room here is whether or not that B150 motherboard has had the BIOS updated to a version that officially supports that i5-7500 as well as the chipset drivers being updated to the latest version available on the motherboard product page, to fully support the stable use of that 7th gen CPU. If not, that would be the FIRST place to start.