I need Windows 7 drivers

[slipperylobster]

guessing you have a pirated copy?

Anyway...DriverEasy...google and download. safe and efficient. It is what you need.

[lungbing]

And Microsoft want me to abandon XP to get involved in this sort of performance?

[thaibeachlovers]

OP, You saw my post HERE and I was out of luck. Many mass manufacturers are building for Win 8 and see no need to provide drivers for their new hardware for Win 7. They just aren't there.

Good luck with the store.

While laptops can be picky with drivers requiring certain drivers from the laptop's manufacturer to work properly or makes available some special features that problem has faded quite a bit over the years. However, it does seems the video and Wifi chip drivers can be the most picky on some laptops.

For example, over the last few days I loaded Win 7 Home Premium on my 8 (eight) year old Toshiba laptop (a 2006 model) with only a Celeron CPU and 2GB of RAM (actually it only shows 1.5GB RAM), and a 100GB hard drive....the laptop originally came with XP. This computer serves as my backup computer in case my primary laptop goes down. I prepared by first downloading from the Toshiba support website the drivers/utilities for it....the last batch of drivers/utilities were for Visa...no Win 7 or Win 8/8.1 drivers/utilities. Toshiba usually stops providing update drivers/utilities for their laptops after the laptop is 3 years old and my laptop reached the 3 year old point back in 2009. Ok, I now have those dozen of so drivers/utilities on my USB thumb drive in preparation to install them right after the Win 7 install completes. I stick in the Win 7 disk, do a Clean install, it goes successfully, everything is working on the laptop. I DID NOT load any of the manufacturers drivers/utilities. I then loaded Office 365 (Office 2013) suite of software, Norton 360 firewall/antivirus, Adobe Reader, Java, scanner software, and just a variety of other software. I still haven't installed any of the laptop driver/utilities from the Toshiba support website. Everything is working fine with absolutely no need to load any of the manufacturers drivers/utilities because I figure Win 7 has already incorporated those Toshiba drivers....and I don't plan to load any of the drivers/utilities. Well, I might load some of the "utilities" later on which are not really drivers, just Toshiba written software to make use of their computers a little easier.

You could be writing in Chinese for all the sense your post makes to me. The person that invents a computer as easy to use as a DVD player will make more money than Bill Gates.

[Pib]

OP, You saw my post HERE and I was out of luck. Many mass manufacturers are building for Win 8 and see no need to provide drivers for their new hardware for Win 7. They just aren't there.

Good luck with the store.

While laptops can be picky with drivers requiring certain drivers from the laptop's manufacturer to work properly or makes available some special features that problem has faded quite a bit over the years. However, it does seems the video and Wifi chip drivers can be the most picky on some laptops.

For example, over the last few days I loaded Win 7 Home Premium on my 8 (eight) year old Toshiba laptop (a 2006 model) with only a Celeron CPU and 2GB of RAM (actually it only shows 1.5GB RAM), and a 100GB hard drive....the laptop originally came with XP. This computer serves as my backup computer in case my primary laptop goes down. I prepared by first downloading from the Toshiba support website the drivers/utilities for it....the last batch of drivers/utilities were for Visa...no Win 7 or Win 8/8.1 drivers/utilities. Toshiba usually stops providing update drivers/utilities for their laptops after the laptop is 3 years old and my laptop reached the 3 year old point back in 2009. Ok, I now have those dozen of so drivers/utilities on my USB thumb drive in preparation to install them right after the Win 7 install completes. I stick in the Win 7 disk, do a Clean install, it goes successfully, everything is working on the laptop. I DID NOT load any of the manufacturers drivers/utilities. I then loaded Office 365 (Office 2013) suite of software, Norton 360 firewall/antivirus, Adobe Reader, Java, scanner software, and just a variety of other software. I still haven't installed any of the laptop driver/utilities from the Toshiba support website. Everything is working fine with absolutely no need to load any of the manufacturers drivers/utilities because I figure Win 7 has already incorporated those Toshiba drivers....and I don't plan to load any of the drivers/utilities. Well, I might load some of the "utilities" later on which are not really drivers, just Toshiba written software to make use of their computers a little easier.

You could be writing in Chinese for all the sense your post makes to me. The person that invents a computer as easy to use as a DVD player will make more money than Bill Gates.

Sorry it don't make sense to you. Maybe I can simplfy it and shorten the story by saying, a laptop/notebook now days will work with only the Win 7/Win 8 drivers...the need for manufacturer specific drivers only optimize computer operations and/or expands some features. If a person had to install the manufacturers drivers "before" installing Windows it would be a waste of time and motion because a clean install basically nukes/overwrites your operating system and all drivers and programs installed. And then if the computer didn't work after this Windows install a person would be unable to install anything such as manufacturer's specific drivers...the person may have brick instead of a computer.

[Chicog]

And Microsoft want me to abandon XP to get involved in this sort of performance?

No, they want you to abandon XP to stop you bombarding the rest of us with spam and malware.

[NeverSure]

Look guys, all of the listed proggies and ideas are great.

But if you have a new computer made by a mass manufacturer and that computer has a motherboard that's branded Asus or Toshiba or whatever you have, and it has a bios/cmos made by Insyde, and it has other new hardware, the chances are great that there are no drivers available for it other than for Win 8/8.1.

You may poke around and find some drivers that work, but what good does that do if you never find a video driver that lets you adjust screen resolution beyond the default huge grainy mess? What if you never find the USB drivers? What if you never find a driver for ethernet or WiFi?

You can install the very small, free and efficient CPU-Z (if you have enough drivers to do that) and quickly find the make and model of your motherboard and bios/cmos, your video make and model, your exact processor, etc. You can search for those drivers that way.

But if there is no driver out there for your hardware for anything below 8, you're out of luck.

[dharmabm]

guessing you have a pirated copy?

Anyway...DriverEasy...google and download. safe and efficient. It is what you need.

the OP clearly stated he had a legal copy of win7

[slipperylobster]

the OP clearly stated he had a legal copy of win7

ok... i guess I would say the same. Being in this part of the world makes you wonder anyways.

[slipperylobster]

How about Microsoft...any help on their support site.... As your operating system is authentic, they may have some generic drivers for your laptop, if the manufacturer does not.

[Chicog]

Looking at the ASUS site, this is designed for Windows 8, so I really wouldn't bother with Windows 7.

It's even got a touchscreen.

Remember that you can add a free utility like Classic Shell to restore the old Start Menu.

[roguewo]

I appreciate most of the replies... and have decided to follow this advice; I am going to upgrade to windows 8.1 and install the shell. Hopefully, that will cure the problem without me having to go primeval on a scum sucking life form masquerading as a human. Why Thai lie?

In the event that this goes sideways.....I'll be back...