Win & Skylake Installation

[Shula 7]

Please what do I need to know to install Windows 7 64 bit with a Skylake cpu? Are there not at least a couple of idiosyncrasies that need to be duly addresses at installation?

 

[azaran]

Yep, Windows 7 has to be modified before installing on a Skylake system.

Go here, download the thing, run the thing on your install media (the readme will step you through it) and then you can install Win7 on the new system.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25476/Windows-7-USB-3-0-Creator-Utility

 

[azaran]

Long story short, Windows 7 installation media does not include native driver support for USB 3.0. So you have to create your own bootable media and adjust it with the above tool.

However after reading it I saw they list using Microsofts tool (sorry its been a while since I've done this) which, if all goes well works fine. I have a number of ISO's it doesnt work on, so sometimes the MS tool doesn't work. So sometimes you have to build a Windows 7 installer from scratch. Here's a good site with a how-to for doing that.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Create-a-Bootable-USB-Drive-Without-Using-A/

 

[smorizio]

to the op if your going to go from windows 7 and then take the free windows 10 upgrade. save yourself a headake and download the full windows 10 iso to a usb stick using windows media creation tool. the new windows 10 iso will let you register it with a vailid windows 10 key. it save you some time and space on your hardd rive to jump from windows 7 iso to windows 10.

 

[BadActor]

If you have a PS2 ports on your motherboard and an optical drive, you may be able to do it the old fashioned way. If not, you can also slipstream the necessary USB drivers into your Windows iso and create a new media, either DVD or USB.

 

[azaran]

Smorizio makes a good point. If you don't have to go with Win7, make your life easy and go with a Win10 install. Hell just not having to do 2 days worth of Win7 updates would make it worthwhile for me.