HP Omen 15 OS installation

[Sharpshooter]

Hi guy,

I'm abou to give back the Omen I purchased recently to the vendor, after a few days struggle to install an OS I'm failing.

I began with Win7. I prepared a bootable USB pendrive as the notebook does not have an optic drive. Soon after Windows started to load files I got blue error screen- BIOS is not fully ACPI compliant.  A remedy I found on the web was to switch off ACPI, but in the BIOS I did not find any options to do it.

Then I tried Win10 - got "windows can't open required files".

Then I tried to update BIOS as per instruction I found- go to UEFI panel an do it, yet there is no anything like "update BIOS" in that panel.

Would be grateful for useful advices.

[Lil_Boy_Blue · Accepted solution]

Hmmmm

https://lubuntu.net/downloads/  should work very nicely.

Windows 7 is not best suited to USB installs. Nor necessarily to that Model of Laptop.

You could, if you have access to the HDD, make a small partition for W7 and copy any/all the install files onto there. 

Then log to it and run setup from there, which should install or fail quicker from the HDD than from the USB.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/omen-by-hp-15-dc0000-laptop-pc/20329817/model/22783653

OMEN by HP 15 Laptop PC - Maintenance and Service Guide	21.48MB
HP Notebook Hard Drives & Solid State Drives Identifying, Preventing, Diagnosing and Recovering fro...	0.22MB

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/omen-by-hp-15-dc0000-laptop-pc/20329817/model/22783...

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[Sharpshooter]

Thanks, it worked. Have Windows10 installed. When have more freetime will try to get 7,it looks more complex.

Thanks again and Best of luck!

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Prego.

Although there may be no compatible hardware drivers for W7 and may fail.