Is it true Windows 7 Home premium installation on a DDR4 ram comp with Intel core i5 etc wont work?

Question

My current comp uses AMD A8-6600 APU 3.90ghz , radeon etc
64-bit
My windows home premium is 64bit.

So if I buy a computer with intel core i5, DDR4 ram 8 or 16GB.
Would it work?
I know windows Home premium maximum ram it can recognize is 16GB.
Windows pro is like 190GB or something.

Store guy said it wont work, I just wanna ensure is not a mistake or just him saying so you buy more and they make more $$$$

Answer 1

The problem with installing Windows 7 on a newer set of hardware especially with the newer AMD Ryzen, AMD threadrippter, intel kaby and recently 8th gen intel chip coffelake, is that there are some things on the board that are not specifically designed for Windows 7,8, but are for 10 to take hardware advantage.



Second it is possible to install windows 7 on the newer boards, but with some issue present when installing drivers and such. I tested this theory on a windows 10 ddr4 laptop, first special drivers with the webcam, that webcam supported windows 10 hello function, there was no driver for that in 7. And even though i dont use it, i found the system blue screening most of the time even though i had windows updates installed until it said it was up to date.

Answer 2

It's got nothing to do with whether it's got DDR4 or not, it's the specific processor generation that gets blocked out by Microsoft. So any of the 7th generation or later Intel Core i-series will be blocked from updates. You can install it on these machines, and they might work initially, but further updates to drivers and patches will be disabled on it. The same goes for the AMD Ryzen series of processors as well as the the 9th generation A-series APU's.



There are ways to bypass it, but it's really kludgy, There is a user-supported patch that undoes the blockage, but as soon as a new patch comes in, this patch gets removed, and you have to reapply it to get the next series of patches.



How to bypass Microsoft's update block for Windows 7, 8.1

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3190832/security/bypass-microsofts-update-block-for-windows-7-8-1-pcs-with-kaby-lake-ryzen.html

Answer 3

assuming you have a mainboard that the cpu fits into, then it will work.However, to fit in an i5 using ddr4 then you would be talking a very recent 6th gen or 7th gen i5, now you have a problem. That would require the mainboard maker to provide windows DRIVERS for windows 7 home premium, and NO they are not obliged to do that. In general, most mainboard makers will only provide drivers for CURRENT OS's. so the question to YOU is what mainboard would you be fitting this unknown i5 cpu into? *** hint: you may need an Early 6th gen board.such as the one listed below a GA-H110-MA

if you know the answer then we can check what OS's it provides drivers for.

Answer 4

If the hardware of your computer is significantly newer than Windows 7 there may not be drivers for Windows 7 to work with your Hardware it's certainly worth a try install it not with secure boot but with Legacy support enabled then download driver booster from IObit.



Use it to find and install your drivers if everything works fine after you finish uninstall the driver booster it is adware.



If it doesn't work it is because some of your Hardware is newer than Windows 7 and does not have the drivers

Answer 5

The RAM has nothing to do with the compatibility of the OS. The issue is that 6th and 7th generation Intel systems that use DDR4 RAM are not fully compatible. A lot of it has to do with drivers, in particular the fact that Intel dropped EHCI support on their new chipsets which controls USB devices in particular, so older systems that didn't originally support the newer xHCI standard can't operate correctly because none of your USB ports work until you install the xHCI drivers. And since many PCs these days don't have optical disk drives and PS/2 ports for keyboard/mouse that means you can't install Windows 7.



Simply, manufacturers aren't making drivers for older versions of Windows, so you may be able to install Windows 7 but not everything is going to work.



The store guy isn't wrong. Either he's right for the wrong reason or you just assumed it was because of the RAM and not the rest of the system.



Realistically, unless you're willing to go through a lot of hoops, you're better off just installing Windows 10 if you're getting a new PC because that's what new computers are designed to run.