Hello, i've been recently messing with a Z690 motherboard and an Intel Alder Lake CPU
Managed to get Windows 7 installed, but it was tricky, decided to try an updated Windows 7 ISO with drivers (USB3, NVMe... etc) slipstreamed and tried out, found out Intel USB3 got updated enough that current driver infs lacked the IDs for the new chipsets and didn't recorgnize it, so i had to install using from another PC with modern Intel AHCI, then carry the drive over the system after the first stage of setup. I ended forcing one of the AMD USB3 drivers with success on the system.
Test machine specifications:
Intel Core i7 12700K
32 GB DDR4 3200
MSI Z690-A PRO DDR4 (Budget Z690 with decent VRM, DDR4 and PS2 port)
GTX 1060 3 GB
120 GB SSD (Kingston SSDNow V300)
What i could get working:
SATA/AHCI
HDA Audio
Most chipset stuff
USB3 (After forcing AMD XHCI Driver), although there are issues
What didn't work:
Onboard LAN (unsupported Intel controller)
IGP (that is expected though)
Few unknown devices
Untested:
NVMe
Known issues:
USB stops working after resuming from suspend (at least with AMDXHCI driver)
Single thread workloads may not allocatte in the right cores
USB3 setup, first attempt:
Setup after doing 1st stage setup and moving the SSD to the ADL system:
After finishing setup:
End results:
WEI score: