Hello MFPA, On Sunday, October 05, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hi M> On Saturday 4 October 2014 at 4:18:45 PM, in M> <mid:23685106.20141004101...@charter.net>, Jack S. LaRosa wrote: >> The desktop I'm using now was purchased from EggHead or >> TigerDirect, I don't remember which. It was purchased >> as separate components and assembled by me. The HDD >> was blank and starting the machine with the Win 7 CD in >> the drive was all I had to do to get a working machine. >> Although I have yet to investigate the process of >> *downgrading* a machine's OS, I assumed I could just do >> a deep format on the C: drive and then load Win 7. >> Naive? M> Windows comes packaged with a whole lot of device drivers to make the M> installation process more convenient and increase the chances of a new M> install working straight away. M> I would think having everything work without needing to install *any* M> extra drivers at must have required some advanced planning (by either M> yourself or the componentt supplier) and an element of luck. And that M> was a box that you built from then-current components and installed M> the then-current Windows version. I have never installed or M> re-installed an operating system without having some sort of driver M> issue, usually minor but at least once a show-stopper. M> Your laptop is newer than the Windows version you plan to install, so M> could possibly contain components for which no driver was packaged M> with Windows 7 (or maybe even for which no Windows 7 driver was M> written). On the other hand, it might "just work". M> "UEFI-mode" and "Secure Boot" in the BIOS are two newish features that M> came out somewhere around the same time as Windows 8. I have not M> encountered them myself, but saw when googling this topic that they M> need to be disabled before installing Windows 7. I ordered Win 7 early yesterday from TD and THEN ( I usually do things in the wrong order) started checking the Web for links to downgrading a computer from Win 8 to Win 7. After reading several I realized I may have been a little hasty in ordering Win 7, as much mention was made of drivers. Now frightened I may have bitten off more than I could chew, I contacted TD and cancelled the order. My plan now is to contact ASUS Tech Support to find out if that particular laptop can even BE downgraded and if so, what is required. -- Best Regards, Jack LaRosa :usflag: Central Alabama Using The Bat! ver: 5.2. Running Windows 7 Pro ver 6 build 7601 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 6.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
