(Preamble: ignore at will!)
Win10Home was preloaded on the ASUS UX305CA Zenbook I bought earlier in the year. My older devices still ran Win7, and I was unimpressed with MS' approach to rolling out the new OS and its default telemetric behaviour, but thought I'd give 10 a chance at least. I told the OS I paid for every byte received from my ISP, which seemed to deal with the forced updates business. All was reasonably bearable until I tried installing the first Dragon Age game on the thing (via networked ODD). At the end of the lengthy install - perhaps when the setup prog attempted installing the VC++ redists (or maybe DirectX) - the machine rebooted without consent, taking with it some hours of work in the form of unsaved docs. (When I say the machine rebooted, I mean the OS first shut down gracefully as if I'd instructed it to.) I don't know what the stages of grief are, but at the time I distinctly remember experiencing disbelief/panic, followed by intense rage. I resolved to rid the machine ASAP of what IIRC I considered at the time a cancer of an OS.
Oh, my sweet summer child...
I spent the next day attempting to marry Win7 and the Zenbook without success. "Fine," I flustered, "I'll put OS X on the thing when that OS receives its Skylake update." Well, turns out that plan involves (at the very least) replacing the ASUS' Wi-Fi hardware, which seemed like a step too far. I'm not Linux-averse, but that route didn't seem feasible; the machine was bought primarily for Visual Studio use (tho' I'd be prepared to learn a new IDE if the Hackbook route paid off), and probably didn't have the grunt to run a Windows VM under Linux to support VS.
So... I'm back to banging my head against the Win7 wall once again.
(Preamble ends.)
The section "Chipset Power and Installing Windows 7" on the page at
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation/5
claims that an optical disk drive is required to install Win7 on a Skylake system. Is this still the case? As an ultrabook, my Zenbook has no such drive, and an external USB ODD is not something I own. I dimly recall attempting the install after modifying the OS' setup files (using WAIK and/or DISM perhaps). Is this kind of approach worth pursuing once again? I only made one such attempt, which took so long that the aforementioned flustering was more appealing than a second effort. But if the approach should theoretically work, I will certainly have at least one more crack at it (maybe with the help of http://www.asrock.com/microsite/Win7Install/, since ASUS don't seem nearly as helpful.)
Win10Home was preloaded on the ASUS UX305CA Zenbook I bought earlier in the year. My older devices still ran Win7, and I was unimpressed with MS' approach to rolling out the new OS and its default telemetric behaviour, but thought I'd give 10 a chance at least. I told the OS I paid for every byte received from my ISP, which seemed to deal with the forced updates business. All was reasonably bearable until I tried installing the first Dragon Age game on the thing (via networked ODD). At the end of the lengthy install - perhaps when the setup prog attempted installing the VC++ redists (or maybe DirectX) - the machine rebooted without consent, taking with it some hours of work in the form of unsaved docs. (When I say the machine rebooted, I mean the OS first shut down gracefully as if I'd instructed it to.) I don't know what the stages of grief are, but at the time I distinctly remember experiencing disbelief/panic, followed by intense rage. I resolved to rid the machine ASAP of what IIRC I considered at the time a cancer of an OS.
Oh, my sweet summer child...
I spent the next day attempting to marry Win7 and the Zenbook without success. "Fine," I flustered, "I'll put OS X on the thing when that OS receives its Skylake update." Well, turns out that plan involves (at the very least) replacing the ASUS' Wi-Fi hardware, which seemed like a step too far. I'm not Linux-averse, but that route didn't seem feasible; the machine was bought primarily for Visual Studio use (tho' I'd be prepared to learn a new IDE if the Hackbook route paid off), and probably didn't have the grunt to run a Windows VM under Linux to support VS.
So... I'm back to banging my head against the Win7 wall once again.
(Preamble ends.)
The section "Chipset Power and Installing Windows 7" on the page at
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation/5
claims that an optical disk drive is required to install Win7 on a Skylake system. Is this still the case? As an ultrabook, my Zenbook has no such drive, and an external USB ODD is not something I own. I dimly recall attempting the install after modifying the OS' setup files (using WAIK and/or DISM perhaps). Is this kind of approach worth pursuing once again? I only made one such attempt, which took so long that the aforementioned flustering was more appealing than a second effort. But if the approach should theoretically work, I will certainly have at least one more crack at it (maybe with the help of http://www.asrock.com/microsite/Win7Install/, since ASUS don't seem nearly as helpful.)
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