Back to win10.
Last days i build a PC for someone. He wanted win7, but with NVMe-SSD, what should make it incredible fast. So I bought a Samsung 970 EVO for him, from which i know, there are win7 drivers available. I bought a
ASRock H370M-ITX/ac Mini-ITX, to make it compact as possible. I have some win7 install-cd's without service pack for the initial setup on temporary external ssd, and after install all the board drivers, i wanted to install the NVMe drivers to the temp win7, and after that, clone it to the onboard NVMe-SSD to boot from there.
But, surprisingly, no any driver from the board-cd could be installed! No usb, no fundamentally INF-driver, i've had nothing to get a step further.
A look at Asrock driver download online revealed the problem:
These are WIN10 - ONLY drivers!
They don't have win7-drivers anymore But nowhere a reference to it, not at purchase, and also not on the original driver cd enclosed!
So, this is the conceptionaly first win10-only-board, i've seen for now.
Luckily only the lan-driver is working. So i can upgrade the very first win7 updates over the net, an then download the MediaCreationTool from my server, to install win10 directly over the net, that works. But no chance for win7 with this board.