Needing help with drivers.

[charris0592]

This question is aimed towards Paul Tikkanen so I am hoping he sees it. I decided to go ahead and take an attempt at installing Windows 7 on my hp pavilion 15-au010wm. I need to know where I can get all the required drivers since HP doesn't support Windows 7 for this model and I know it's going to void my warranty. Another question I have though is, is there anyway to dual boot and have both operating systems or even just emulate windows 7 on this laptop  instead of fully installing it. 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

You should be able to use the W7 drivers and software from the 15t-ay000 on that model, except the BIOS and firmware files.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-15-ay000-notebook-pc-series/10862300/model/11528...

Since your notebook has the Intel/nvidia switchable graphics adapters, along with the Intel graphics driver from the above models support page, you will also need the driver directly from Nvidia.

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/119916/en-us

I can't answer your other questions.

[charris0592]

Thanks Paul!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

[charris0592]

Hey Paul, I am in the process of trying to install Windows 7 and it keeps saying I have no drivers so I can't install. I believe my laptop uses 3.0 USB ports so I am not sure if that has something to do with it or not. Do you have any suggestions on where I can find the drivers it is asking for?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Yes, it does have something to do with the USB3 drivers missing.

You have to run this utility to put the USB3 drivers into your W7 installation flash drive.

There is a readme file on the link for how to use the utility.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25476/NUCs-Windows-7-USB-3-0-Creator-Utility

After you get W7 to install, you will again have to install the USB3 drivers, I believe.

Download, unzip and run the setup application from the link below for that.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22824/Intel-USB-3-0-eXtensible-Host-Controller-Driver-for-...

[charris0592]

Thanks so much Paul! I'm going to give this a try and let you know how it goes.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

[charris0592]

It is still bringing up the same error message for me. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. This tool works for windows 10 correct?

[charris0592]

I am seeing the drivers in the list and hit next. When I do a little green bar loads on the bottom then I get the message no new devices could be found. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver installation media.