[SOLVED] Windows 7 on new Hardware?

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I was doing a little ITX build for my mother, but she refuses to use windows 10 and i assumed i could just use windows 7 on the new PC but after skimming some of the posts i think i actually cant? These are the parts for the PC. Can i run windows 7 with this ?
Also, side question, I was intending to use Windows 7 Ultimate but i cant find german ISOs. Cant i change the system language to german and be done with it?
 
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Bongert said:
I was doing a little ITX build for my mother, but she refuses to use windows 10 and i assumed i could just use windows 7 on the new PC but after skimming some of the posts i think i actually cant? These are the parts for the PC. Can i run windows 7 with this ?
Also, side question, I was intending to use Windows 7 Ultimate but i cant find german ISOs. Cant i change the system language to german and be done with it?
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That motherboard and processor will not work together.

Most of the newer hardware requires W10.
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You need to be using Windows 10 on these parts.

Why Windows 7 Ultimate? A legit Windows 7 Ultimate license costs about half as much as this build and if this is a pirated Windows 7 Ultimate, we can't provide any help whatsoever in using it.
 
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Bongert said:
I was doing a little ITX build for my mother, but she refuses to use windows 10 and i assumed i could just use windows 7 on the new PC but after skimming some of the posts i think i actually cant? These are the parts for the PC. Can i run windows 7 with this ?
Also, side question, I was intending to use Windows 7 Ultimate but i cant find german ISOs. Cant i change the system language to german and be done with it?
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That motherboard and processor will not work together.

Most of the newer hardware requires W10.
 
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did you find any windows 7 driver for the mobo?
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I just looked and found some, yes.

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That motherboard and processor will not work together.

Most of the newer hardware requires W10.
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hm, thats unfortunate. the gpu has win7 drivers, and the ssd should be fine, i found some win 7 forum posts talking about that particular drive, and the ram should work as well as im intending to use the win7 ultimate version which supports 16 GB ram and higher. I assume PSUs dont care about OS version, right? so the only issue is the CPU
Edit: seems some parts arent compatible after all.
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1151/H110I-PLUS/H110I-PLUS_Devices_report.pdf
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1151/H110I-PLUS/H110I-PLUS_memory_0810.pdf

i think it might be incombatible with everything but the GPU, at which point i should probably go for a different board instead changing everything else. Ill update once ive found something that should work.
 
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Bongert said:
i assumed i could just use windows 7 on the new PC but after skimming some of the posts i think i actually cant? These are the parts for the PC. Can i run windows 7 with this ?
Also, side question, I was intending to use Windows 7 Ultimate but i cant find german ISOs. Cant i change the system language to german and be done with it?
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Cpu and motherboard are not compatible. i3-9100F requires 300 series board.

After you resolve hardware compatibility issues, windows 7 can be installed.
You can use Gigabyte windows USB installation tool to integrate USB drivers into installation.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Support/Utility?kw=windows&p=1

Note windows 7 will not be supported on newer hardware. You'll get a nag screen about upgrading to windows 10, when running windows automatic update.
This can be remedied with wufuc.
https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc
 
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I think ive found the big issue where all other problems stem from. When i was browsing for parts i started with the CPU as it seemed the easiest to work from there. i chose the i3-9100F because it seemed like a good value. I checked which socket to go with and guess where i browsed for motherboards after... and because PC part picker didn't even list the H110i-Plus it couldn't tell me about any incompatibility...

I've now checked for the H310i-Plus motherboard and found my RAM and SSD to be compatible but the PSU isn't on their list. Is it really that important what PSU model i use? i assumed they'd be virtually interchangeable.

I also saw in the parts compatibility sheet under section 3.3 for GPUs that the ASUS GT 730 cards are compatible with this motherboard but not the MSI GT 730 that i bought. Does that make a difference, can i really not use the MSI branded one?
 
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Bongert said:
I think ive found the big issue where all other problems stem from. When i was browsing for parts i started with the CPU as it seemed the easiest to work from there. i chose the i3-9100F because it seemed like a good value. I checked which socket to go with and guess where i browsed for motherboards after... and because PC part picker didn't even list the H110i-Plus it couldn't tell me about any incompatibility...

I've now checked for the H310i-Plus motherboard and found my RAM and SSD to be compatible but the PSU isn't on their list. Is it really that important what PSU model i use? i assumed they'd be virtually interchangeable.

I also saw in the parts compatibility sheet under section 3.3 for GPUs that the ASUS GT 730 cards are compatible with this motherboard but not the MSI GT 730 that i bought. Does that make a difference, can i really not use the MSI branded one?
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I'll move this thread over to another sub, as it has derailed from the window 7 topic pretty far by now. thanks for the help anyway!
 
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