I want to install Windows 7 on my HP 15s-eq2027nq (can be found as 15s-ef2000, i installed the BIOS from that model as my model cannot be found). Unlike my main computer (Gigabyte B450M DS3H + Ryzen 3 3100 + RX 550) which is running Windows 7 stable, I have a few problems with installing Windows 7 on my laptop.
1. I can’t find any Wi-Fi drivers. My network card is Realtek RTL8822CE, which only has Windows 10/11 drivers.
2. Touchpad will (probably) not work. I can’t get my touchpad working on either any Windows 10-based Windows Server OS or Windows 8.1 (I suspect this to be because of the lack for AMD IC2 Controller driver), same as the wifi card.
3. My laptop doesn’t have any Legacy/BIOS/CSM boot option, only UEFI/EFI. I know there are some ways to get it working on pure UEFI, like UEFISeven and VGAShim, but I can’t even get it working on my main PC (Help for that will be appreciated too!).
4. AMD didn’t release any Chipset or iGPU drivers for this chipset and CPU. I think this can be bypassed by using @canonkong 's modded APU, USB and chipset drivers.
5. I cannot find any drivers for the Intel 660p Series NVMe Controller. It will probably work fine with the generic Windows 7 one installed by the hotfix, but I assume it will be slower.
I believe Windows 7 cannot be got fully working on this machine, as of the lots of problems. Any help will be appreciated. Sorry for any grammar mistakes, I am not a native English speaker.
@ExtremeGrief
your english is quite good don’t worry about it.
you can try stationdrivers.com to see if there is a windows 7 driver for your hardware there.
Already tried