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No drivers after installing Windows 7

mxxime235 -  
SATS_fr Posted messages 4849 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello,

I have a PC with Windows 10 installed on it. The PC is getting slower and slower even after reset, so I've decided to install Windows 7 to make it more pleasant to use.

The installation of Windows 7 goes smoothly, but once Windows 7 is installed, the PC no longer recognizes anything, neither USB keys, nor ethernet, nor wifi, etc...

Is there a way to solve the problem?


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    bazfile Posted messages 58492 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   20 268
     

    Hello.

    It's normal that Windows 7 is too old for your PC, which was originally running on Windows 10. Windows 7 hasn't been updated for quite some time; it has become obsolete. The various components of your PC require drivers to function, and apparently, there are no compatible drivers for Windows 7 for your PC's components, so you need to revert to Windows 10.

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    1. mxxime235
       

      Yet at least for my network card there is a compatible Windows 7 driver but it doesn't want to install... ????

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      1. bazfile Posted messages 58492 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   20 268 > mxxime235
         

        Windows 7 on a recent PC question drivers it cannot work so switch back to Windows 10, Windows 7 is over no use insisting.

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      2. SATS_fr Posted messages 4849 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   785 > bazfile Posted messages 58492 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention  
         

        Hello.

        If the PC is really too slow and you only need a browser and an office suite, try a Linux.

        But if you have actually reinstalled W10, possibly with formatting after recovering your data, there is no reason for the PC not to behave like it did when you bought it, unless the disk is at the end of its life.

        Test the disk.
        Download the program crystaldiskinfo, install it and run it (be careful, select the right program: crystaldiskinfo, not crystaldiskmark!):
        https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/
        Provide the status of the disk, preferably with a screenshot.

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