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Skylake-X Windows 7?

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EnderW

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Can anyone confirm if Skylake-X is recognized as a supported CPU by Windows Update on Windows 7?
 
Supported no recognized I am sure it works.

I just installed a Ryzen 1600 into an office machine that does alot of SQL work and it has windows 7 and it sais in windows update that this processor is not supported by WIndows 7 and to upgrade to 10.
 
I think Zeffy's patch is still working, even though I haven't used it in months.

https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

Should you install Zeffy’s fix, two functions found in wuaueng.dll update code will be disabled. It is these functions, IsCPUSupported(void) and IsDeviceServiceable(void), that are responsible for blocking the update. This patch reportedly does the job, allowing you to install the previously blocked non-security updates on Windows 7 and 8.1 on affected systems. However, the Zeffy patch will need to be reapplied every time wuaueng.dll is updated by Microsoft. It’s also possible a future update will try to prevent this workaround. Then, maybe someone will release another custom patch, Microsoft will block that one, and then the whole thing starts all over.

The patch download is less than a megabyte and installs in a single step. The source code is available, so it’s unlikely Zeffy is up to anything shady. That said, using a third-party tool to modify Windows system files is not without risk.
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Edit: Or don't install these 2 updates KB4012218-KB4012219, and if you already have, just uninstall them and hide them.
 
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tangoseal said:
Supported no recognized I am sure it works.

I just installed a Ryzen 1600 into an office machine that does alot of SQL work and it has windows 7 and it sais in windows update that this processor is not supported by WIndows 7 and to upgrade to 10.
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I don’t follow the first part of your post. Do you get the now supported message on Skylake-X?
 
EnderW said:
I don’t follow the first part of your post. Do you get the now supported message on Skylake-X?
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To my understanding skylake is supported but not CFLake.

However I havent been able to test x299 with 7.
 
Bumping this thread to find out if anyone has actually built a SkyLake-X system running Win7 64-bit. Any difficulties? I intend to upgrade as far as possible without going to Win10 so I'm curious if this is going to be a headache or not. I'm already aware that I'd need to slipstream in NVME and USB 3.0 drivers to the installer.

edit: This is intriguing: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13201/intel-preps-h310-revision-with-win7-coffee-lake-support

double edit: much less intriguing now...

  • "Intel’s H310 is the company’s entry-level chipset for Coffee Lake processors, so it does not support PCIe 3.0 lanes, USB 3.1 Gen 2, Intel Optane Memory caching SSDs (not that these are supported under Windows 7 anyway), and so on. Evidently, these limitations are important for performance-minded users, so the H310C (H310 R2.0) is not going to appeal to enthusiasts who would like to keep using Windows 7 for some reason. "
 
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