How to setup Windows 7?
Disclaimer: make sure you first have a unique empty partition to follow this tutorial. Any bolded text in the tutorial has a link to the website.
If you have an empty partition ready, you may proceed:
It is recommended that you have an another USB to download the important materials, so it can be easily transferred to Windows 7
Firstly, find a Windows 7 ISO of your liking, recommendedly a Windows 7 Ultimate edition ISO. Contact me if you need one, and I will send you one (it's untampered, I personally use it).
Secondly, have a spare USB flash drive ready, MUST BE EMPTY OTHERWISE IT WILL DELETE ALL THE DOCUMENTS AUTOMATICALLY LATER ON.
If you have found a spare USB somewhere, download Rufus on your PC. On Rufus, pick your USB drive on the Device tab and
pick your ISO file (click SELECT next to Boot selection), select MBR as partition scheme, and press START.
If Rufus is done, get WindowsImageTool by downloading it from Gigabyte Utility Support
and downloading Windows USB Installation Tool from Feb 13, 2018 for Windows 7 (the first option).
Once that is downloaded, unzip the folder and run WindowsImageTool.exe, add the destination path as your USB and check all of the boxes, and click start.
After that is done, restart your computer and run the USB in which you have put the setup in by accessing the BIOS and choosing the boot. Choose the version and your drive.
If it shows that you cannot pick the drive you created, then you have to press Shift+F10 which opens a command prompt, write in it "diskpart" (don't include the quotation marks) and press enter, then type "list disk", then type "select disk n" (replace the n with the number of your chosen partition),
then type "clean", then you can try again.
You should be on Winodws 7 by now, and if you are, great! I recommend you first do the offline installation of Microsoft .NET framework 4.8. After that is install, download the ethernet drivers, then unzip the DDU folder and run it.
Select GPU, then select your make (NVIDIA or AMD) and press "Clean and restart", it should restart by itself after finishing. What it does is completely uninstall the curent display drivers. After you have done that, run command prompt as administrator
and disable Driver Signing by using "bcdedit /set testsigning on". Open Run (Win+R), type "gpedit.msc" and press enter, go to User Config -> Admin. Templates -> System -> Driver Installation, there should be Code Signing for device drivers, open that and choose the option "Enabled" on top-left
and choose "Ignore" under Options, click Apply, Ok, and restart. Disable integrity checks via CMD using "bcdedit /set nointegritychecks on". When you come back, download all of the important updates, first KB3033929, KB4490628 then KB4484419 IN ORDER, RESTARTING AFTER EACH INSTALL.
After all of these restarts, download the drivers for your GPU and download it.
You can also turn off testsigning using "bcdedit /set testsigning off" to get rid off the watermark.
If you have done all of these steps and it still does not work, it's either my steps or the ISO. Contact me for further information at Contact