Intel this year unveiled a new Skylake architecture with a six-generation processor that requires a 100-series new interface motherboard. Because this generation of products in the USB interface of the main control design of a major change, resulting in Z170 motherboard computer can not normally install the Win7 operating system. Recent major motherboard manufacturers are also actively trying to solve the problem, the following is the Z170 motherboard perfect installation Win7 tutorial. This tutorial will help you if you don't yet know how to install Win7 on the Z170 motherboard.
Z170 motherboard USB Disk Installation win7 failure reasons:
The difficulty of installing Win7 systems on the Z170 platform is mainly due to the fact that skylake items are more support for USB 3.1 interfaces than earlier plans, and therefore will no longer support the original EHCI master and become more up-to-date with XHCI master.
This change causes the user installs the Win7 interface to be able to appear the USB interface all to fail the condition, not only can not use the USB mouse to install the interface to carry on the operation, simultaneously the system also cannot read the USB disk to install the file, therefore in Z170 motherboard installs Win7, will encounter lacks the necessary cd/ DVD drive device to go to the instructions, as shown in the diagram.
In short, the Z170 motherboard in the default settings, the installation of the Win7 system will occur when the USB interface all failed.
Z170 motherboard Perfect Installation Win7 Tutorial
To solve this problem, mainly through the following ideas to solve:
1. The new version of the manufacturers USB drive package to the system U disk;
2.BIOS, adjust the USB interface is available, will only be Win7 system installation. After the system installed, remember to turn off the BIOS USB interface, so as not to affect the use of high-speed USB interface.
In addition, if you have optical drive and WIN7 genuine system friends, you can buy a PS/2 mouse to install, as long as not using a USB mouse.
Below, we mainly to Z170 motherboard USB U-Win7 system as an example, where the main operation of the difficulty is to install a new version of the USB driver package to the system U disk, and then the BIOS settings, below we introduce respectively.
First, the motherboard manufacturers new version of USB drive package to u disk tools, the following to gigabyte Z170 motherboard for example.
1, the installation of the system, the need to prepare a boot U disk, capacity must be more than 8GB, and you need to make a U disk to start a U disk, and will Win7 system image placed in this boot U disk tool. Then search the web for "gigabyte Windows USB installation Tool" tool to find and download.
2, after downloading the decompression tool, and then the installation process, as shown in the following figure.
Installation Completion interface
The whole production process is a bit long, the test takes about 30 minutes, because the U disk is not USB3.0, so it will slow down a bit.