Windows 7 HP Gaming Pavilion - 15-cx0043ur

[Farmazon]

Hello, I'm trying to install Windows 7 64x jn this laptop, but after install i have BSOD not ACPI compliant. I update BIOS but did not help. Please if you have a solution to this problem help me, i have much programs that work only in Windows 7.

[WAWood]

@Farmazon 

According to the HP specs, this model comes with Win10 preinstalled, not Win7.  IF your did and you forced Win7 onto it, that was a serious mistake.

Laptops especially contain specialized hardware for which, for full functionality, specialized drivers are required -- and these come ONLY from the OEM, in this case, HP. Your PC came preinstalled with Windows 10. If you remove or overwrite the original Win10 on your PC with Win 7, you are going to encounter serious problems as there are no HP Win7 drivers for the new hardware that comes with new machines.

MS supplies drivers that provide only basic functionality. This means that some of the hardware functionality is likely NOT to work if you force a downgrade. That includes functions like the touchpad, WiFi, switchable graphics, USB ports -- to name the functions commonly reported here.

That said, someone else might come along and point you to Win7 drivers for other model PCs that that will work with yours -- but if that does not happen, you will then be stuck with a PC with limited functionality as HP is not writing Win7 drivers for their new Win10 PCs.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, @Farmazon 

I am usually that 'someone' who comes along and bails you guys out of trouble, and solve your issues by providing W7 drivers that will work.

However, it is impossible for you to get W7 to install and run correctly on that platform, or any other Intel 8th generation core processor notebook.

Specifically, there are no Intel graphics, USB 3.1, wifi, and some other motherboard drivers for any other operating system but W10.

I suggest that you quit while you are ahead, and learn to get along with W10.

If W7 is a requirement, then you will need to purchase a new old stock, or used notebook with an Intel Skylake (6th gen) core processor or older.