Aiek

anything but a 3050ti, 3060ti, 3070ti or a 3080ti. make sure you buy one with csm support & muxxed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexing) support so you can just get the display off the dgpu. i have a friend that bought this laptop that has a 3080 and supports all of the above, it should run windows 7 just fine beaware: youre gonna have issues with the trackpad cuz yk.. i2c, and youre also gonna need to swap out the wifi card for a 8265 (also forget about EVEN running vista lol) i think its this one, but do your research before buying it https://www.newegg.com/Storm-Grey-Lenovo-Legion-7-16ACHg6-82N600DUUS-Gaming/p/N82E16834646366

i guess i could just try getting the igpu working since the first version is from like 2021 and amd ended support for their w7 drivers in 2022, speaking of that has anyone TRIED backporting the ryzen 5000 series igpu drivers to w7? i think they might be dch because i tried getting them to work under 1507 or 1607 and they didnt work.. oh well im probably just gonna continue using that laptop as a server as i refuse to use windows 10, even if its my only choice

dw, even if someone did get the driver woking, youd still need an external monitor which defeats the whole purpose of using a laptop i alr got an egpu dock and it did work but i barely even use the 3050ti laptop, my 2017 macbook air with windows 8.0 is slim which is what ive always wanted (and also runs NT 6.x with full driver support) only if someone ports over dch at some point so we can run w10 drivers, didnt they drop non-dch in the 470 batch?

there r like 20+ variations of the 3050ti driver according the inf files from the nvidia driver i got from acers website, mine is this one 10DE 25A0 162A the laptop in question is an acer aspire 7 a715-43-r9r0

yeah btw i tried again with the latest driver (475), no luck i tried with nv_dispi, nvaci, nvlai, etc. i still have the laptop with me i just use it as a server though, if you want me to test anything ill happily fire up the windows 8.1 install on it

this screenshot should sum up everything pretty nicely, try plugging in the laptop to an external monitor

well that explains it then anyways if there is no fix for this, my recommended fix is an egpu setup: is it portable? no. will you have a compatible gpu? yes

how else was i supposed to install the driver? i always install nvidia drivers via device manager, even if i can install normally

and yes, my laptop is pure uefi class 3 i think im gonna use a spare gpu for my egpu dock until i buy an rx 580 (im either gonna use a gt 240 or a firepro v3900) uh yeah other than that what can i say, @D.Draker youre open making a modded driver, would be really appreciated

anyways i already ordered my egpu dock, gonna be there soon im either gonna install windows 7 with a few mods so i can run this under pure uefi class 3 or im just gonna go for windows 8.0 (with a really good theme) these screenshots are from my other computer, thats the theme im talking about.. its about 95% accurate

i did, i tried 10+ drivers.. none of them worked

thanks for responding, sad this didnt go anywhere given the fact nvidia made sure all of us W7 users wouldnt get 30 series laptop drivers for the Ti models (unlike the windows xp modded GTX 960 driver that gave the entire 900 series fully functional drivers, or whatever it was called)

yeah lets just say im not selling my laptop just for a normal laptop 3050 (which gets beaten by a gtx 970 btw) just gonna do an egpu setup with whatever graphics card i have laying around

i have a 3050ti in my laptop, tried modding a driver for 10 hours straight but no results, if could send the inf files (i know how to mod drivers pretty well) NOTE: I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE DESKTOP COUNTERPARTS OF THE 30 SERIES, PLEASE DO NOT MENTION THEM anyways, i attempted to mod this driver https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/197673/en-us/ if anyone has any ideas pls lmk

nobody responded.. i ended up getting a R7 5800x