ASUS 200 Series motherboards are perfectly compatible with m.2 mounting Win7 systems

While the installed rate of Windows 10 systems is rising, the classic Windows 7 still has a large user base. Especially in China, Windows 7 is still the preferred system for many computer users.

Enduring Windows 7

However, since the era of the Skylake architecture processor, users have found a lot of problems in installing Windows 7 on a new computer. In fact, this is mainly caused by the lack of some necessary drivers for native Windows 7:

Previous generation Skylake platform to install Windows 7, you need to embed USB drivers in your Windows 7 mirroring system!
Latest Generation Kaby Lake platform to install Windows 7, you need to embed the USB driver and NVMe driver (required for SSD installation) in a Windows 7 mirroring system.

There are a lot of help posts on the web about the new platform installed Windows 7

As the world famous motherboard brand, Asus and users of the urgency, in addition to ensure that all of its 200-series motherboards are all perfectly compatible with Windows 7, will also be installed on the new platform Windows 7 to share with you, Hope Skylake and Kaby Lake platform computer users can use.

Method One: According to Microsoft's official original Windows 7 image file, directly make the required USB drive system

1) Download and install the Daemon Tools virtual drive, trial version. ASUS official online is available with Daemontools download: https://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/DAEMON_Tools_Win7-81-10_V6200496.zip

2) load the original Windows 7 system image file with daemon tools

3) Download ASUS EZ Installer system authoring tool from ASUS official website. Download Link: https://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/ASUS_EZInstaller.zip
Unzip and run EZ Installer.exe. You can see that there are two ways to select "from the Windows 7 operating system CD to USB storage device" and then click "Next"

4) Tick "I Agree" and click "Next"

5) Select the disc original file for Windows 7, then click "Next"

6) Insert the USB drive, identify the USB flash drive, tick "install NVMe fix", then click "Next"

7) If you are prompted to format the USB flash drive, then click "Next"

8) Once completed, this USB flash drive can be used to install Windows 7 system directly, it is now integrated with USB driver and NVMe driver.

Method Two: Microsoft's official original Windows 7 image file added to the USB driver and NVMe driver, the synthesis of a new system image for everyone to spread, convenient for users to download and use, make the necessary U disk System:

1) Run ASUS EZ Installer, select "From the Windows 7 operating system CD to ISO file", tick "I agree", then click "Next".

2) Select the disc original file for Windows 7, and then click Next.

3) Select the image to save the directory, tick "compatibility mode" and "Install NVMe fix", then click "Next"

4) Start making a new Windows 7 system image

5) The new Windows 7 system ISO file with integrated USB drive and NVMe driver is now complete

6) Download and run the UltraISO software and select the ISO image file you made

7) Select "Start"--"write to hard disk image"

8) write the ISO image to the USB stick and plug it into the computer to install the Windows 7 system.

Well, the above is the Skylake and Kaby Lake platform for computer users to install the window s 7 effective way, I hope to be useful to everyone!

Reprint: Zhao Jianan

ASUS 200 Series motherboards are perfectly compatible with m.2 mounting Win7 systems