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Laptop works properly only with Win10.

Cosmin1204

Commendable
Nov 30, 2016
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So i bought a new laptop ASUS X540S series with Intel Celeron CPU N3050 @ 1.60GHz processor, 4GB RAM. The problem is that it only works with Windows 10. Why? If I install Win 7 there are many parts that doesn`t work. For example the USB doesn`t work, the mouse pad neither. These are the most important. If I install Win 8.1 the mouse pad works, but the USB not. If I run Win 10 everything is working properly from the technical part. My problem is that I don`t like win 10 because I got fps problems when playing games with low requirements like League of Legends. Is there any solution in which Win 7 will work properly? On the drivers disk which belongs to the laptop also writes "Windows 10 only"... I`m so disappointed that I cannot use win 7 so I can enjoy using this laptop. Can I do something to it?
 
Solution
That is a new model and only supports Windows 10. There are no drivers available from ASUS for any prior Windows versions. That laptop will not run games faster using Windows 7 rather than 10.

If you have a fair amount of experience dealing with installations, you may be able to get at least some of the drivers to allow 7 to install and run. The first step would be to slipstream USB 3 drivers into your Windows 7 installer image, most likely the Intel older USB 3 drivers would work.
That is a new model and only supports Windows 10. There are no drivers available from ASUS for any prior Windows versions. That laptop will not run games faster using Windows 7 rather than 10.

If you have a fair amount of experience dealing with installations, you may be able to get at least some of the drivers to allow 7 to install and run. The first step would be to slipstream USB 3 drivers into your Windows 7 installer image, most likely the Intel older USB 3 drivers would work.
 
Solution
If ASUS didn't make Windows 7 drivers for your laptop, then there's not much you can do to make it work. You could try downloading drivers of similar laptops that do support Windows 7 and see if their drivers work, but you would also probably lose some functionality as the drivers are not going to match up exactly to the hardware. Overall I would say it is not worth it and probably not going to work.

As for League of legends not working well, you kind of picked a bad laptop to play it. The minimum specs are at least a 2GHz processor, and the Celeron CPU N3050 is clocked at 1.60GHz.