Problem installing Windows 7 on new PC

[neonetman]

We've just taken devliery of a new HP PC (8th Gen i5). I've tried deploying our normal PC build task sequence to it from SCCM, however as soon as it has installed the OS< it reboots and tells me it failed to start (no matter whethe I choose normal or safe mode at this point, it fails, reboots and does the same again).

 

I've tried deploying a basic task sequence that simply formats the drive and installs windows (missing out any additional drivers/software), to see if that helps, however the same occurs

 

Can anyone give me any pointers on this?

[LeMarchand]

There was some talk about newer processors only allowing W10 to be installed. Could it be that?

[synaesthesia]

Yes, windows 7 isn't supported on generation 7 or 8 processors. You can get around it by installing "wufuc" if you can get that far but you should not be buying newer machines for windows 7 systems...

[christhetech]

Windows 7 will be extremely flaky at best on an 8th Gen processor. That's if you even get as far as installing it! It's part of the reason why Microsoft withdrew OEM downgrade rights for manufacturers some time back. Previously, you could buy machines with Windows 7 already installed as a custom downgrade. As soon as the Kaby Lake processors were announced, Microsoft withdrew OEM downgrade rights completely, as the Kaby Lake & Coffee Lake processors are simply not designed to support older operating systems.

If you do manage to install Windows 7 to the machine, it usually causes no end of issues and they tend to blue screen quite a bit because the newer generation processors are built for Windows 10.

[sigma]

Yes, windows 7 isn't supported on generation 7 or 8 processors. You can get around it by installing "wufuc" if you can get that far but you should not be buying newer machines for windows 7 systems...

 

I've used wufuk successfully but I do feel that the laptops are less stable, and they will be unsupported by the manufacturer's warranty. I won't be doing it again hopefully.

[3s-gtech]

Same for any AMD Ryzen CPU. With 7 and 8.1 in extended support now it makes sense really.

[AlanD]

Why use Win 7...its completely out of support by the end of next near....which probably means you will have changed over by the summer at the latest. Is this not the time to bite the bullet and start the move to Win10? Shove it on "Intune for Education"....in preparation for doing the same for all your computers and doing away with most of your servers (probably still need something on site to do DHCP - unless your core switches do it...and DNS...unless they do that too...)

[drapers]

i am currently trying to do this, I've got everything working apart from USB's. problem is i cant upgrade to windows 10 without upgrading our domain servers.

[sigma]

Drivers?

[3s-gtech]

You can support Windows 10 with Server 2008 servers. You'll be missing a few bits, but there isn't a direct link. We only run 2012 R2 DCs but I can support 10 fine.

[Accura2k7]

I ran Windows 10 on a 2008 R2 domain for well over a year until we could upgrade to 2016. Never really had any problems running them!

[Fazza]

i cant upgrade to windows 10 without upgrading our domain servers.

 

Why not?

 

If you're worried about Group Policies - you don't need a Server OS to create new Windows 10 ones, you just get a Windows 10 PC and create/edit them on that via the RSAT for Windows 10.